Sociology
_______ is the study of society, social life, and the causes and consequences of human social behavior.
sociology
_________ assumes that conflict is a permanent feature of social life and a key source of change.
Conflict theory
_________ refers to the rules and guidelines followed in sociological research.
Methodology
Language is the most important __________.
_________ is a socially defined position that an individual occupies.
status
_______ is the ability to see the world from a sociological point of view.
sociological imagination
__________ theory focuses on the parts of a system, the relationships among these parts, and the functions or consequences of social structures.
Structural functional theory
Attempting to find out as much as possible about a topic under research is called conducting ____________.
a literature review
A culture includes both ______ and ______ forms.
material; non-material
A _______ describes what society suggests that we should do.
prescribed role
The term "sociology" was coined by ______.
Comte
According to this theory, society is based on shared meanings, language, social interaction, and symbolic processes.
Symbolic interactionism theory
_________ methods are used to determine the essential characteristics, properties, or processes of something or someone.
Qualitative methods
_______ is a system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs and technology shared by almost everyone in a society. _______ is a group of interacting people who live in a specific geographical area, who are organized in a cooperative manner, and who share a common culture.
Culture; Society
Role ______ occurs when the demands or expectations associated with two or more statuses interfere with each other or are incompatible.
Role conflict
______ is an area studied by sociology.
suicide.
___________ theory attempts to explain why particular behavioral outcomes result from a given set of structural conditions and interaction possibilities.
Exchange theory
The procedure used most frequently to obtain information about the social world is __________.
An American tourist is in a shop in Hungary. They are yelling at the clerk who does not speak English, “Why can’t everyone in the world just speak English!” This person is exhibiting _____.
ethnocentrism
A group in which a number of people share a common characteristic is called a _________.
categorical group
At the microsociological level, sociologists try to understand _____________.
small-scale units in social interaction
__________ theory suggests that societies, like biological organisms, go through transitions or stages and are independent with the environment or world about them.
Evolutionary theory
The procedure of systematically extracting thematic data from a wide range of communications is called ____________.
content analysis
Norms that develop among members of a football team would most likely be an example of _____.
an idioculture
_______ reference groups serve not only as sources of current evaluation but also as sources of aspiration and goal attainment. ________ reference groups are an important source of information about our performance in a given area.
Normative; Comparative