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study of groups and group interactions, societies and social interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
what is sociology?
He reinvented the term 'sociology'
The way inequalities contribute to social differences and perpetuate differences in power
what is conflict theory?
sociology can help people analyze data through ____
what are statistics?
a testable proposition
what is hypothesis?
studies small groups and individual interactions,
what is micro level?
an early observer of social practices, including economics, social class, religion, suicide, government, and women’s rights
who is Harriet Martineau?
The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the whole
what is functionalism?
social communication is rapidly evolving by _____
what is tencnology?
a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society
what is macro - level?
encompasses a group’s way of life, from routine, everyday interactions to the most important parts of group members' lives.
what is culture?
un underlying component for sociology
what is economics?
One-to-one interactions and communications
what is symbolic interactionism?
Kenneth and Mamie Clark used sociological research to show that segregation was _____
what is harmful?
this theory most likely looks at the social world on a micro level
what is symbolic interactionism?
awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions
what is sociological imagination
argued that how an individual comes to view himself or herself is based to a very large extent on interactions with others.
who is George Herbert Mead?
philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
what are paradigms?
developed skills, which can be applied in a variety of settings and contributed to various tasks
what is transferable skills?
an attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change
what are grand theories?
treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence
what is reification
whereby social researchers would strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values.
what is anti-positivism?
an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be
what is Constructivism?
Berger describes sociologists as concerned with ________ ____
what is everyday life?
what is verstehen?