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| understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context |
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| people who share a territory and culture |
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| the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society |
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| the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods |
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| the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to explain and predict events in our natural environments |
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| the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observation |
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| recurring characteristics or events |
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| those things that everyone knows are true |
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| the scientific organ of inductive reason |
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| the application of the scientific approach to the social world |
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| the study of society and human behavior |
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| Marx's term for the struggle between management and workers |
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| Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production |
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| Marx's term for the working class |
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| the degree to which members of a group or a society feel united by shared values and other social bonds; also known as social cohesion |
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| the view that a sociologist’s personal values or biases should not influence social research |
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| the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly |
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| repeating a study in order to determine the results |
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| a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as “to have insight into someone’s situation” |
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| a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as “to have insight into someone’s situation” |
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| the meanings that people give their own behavior |
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| Durkheim's term for a group's pattern of behavior |
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| sociological research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups |
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| the use of sociology to solve problems --- from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution |
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| a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work |
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| a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people sue to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another |
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| society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together |
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| an examination of large-scale patterns of society |
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| an examination of small scale society |
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| what people do when they are in one another's presence |
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| the breaking down of national boundaries because of advances in communication, trade, and travel |
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| globalization of capitalism |
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| globalization of capitalism |
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