Sociology Flash Cards

Anomie

Disruption in the rules and understandings that guide and integrate social life and give individuals a sne of their place in it

Conflict

Altercations that occur when the exercise of power meets resistance

Conflict theory

A general perspective in sociology that stresses the importance of power and conflict in social relationships, as well as the problems brought about by social and economic inequalites

Critical Thinking

The attempt to develop an understanding that goes beyond surface and appearances to ask why and how events happen or conditions persist, wheatear social conditions could be changed, and in which different ways giveen problem can be conceptualized.

Culture

The learned norms, customs, values, knowledge, artifacts, language, and symbols that are constantly communicated among people who share a common way of life.

Functional Integration

The ways in which the different parts of a social system are often so closely interrelated that what happens in one affects the others, and is influenced by them in turn

Power

The ability of a social actor to control the actions of others, either directly or indirectly.

Scientific method

The rules, principles, and methods of science that are used for the systematic pursuit of knowledge.

Social facts

Enduring properties of social life that shape or constrain the actions individuals can take.

Social action

Behavior which is shaped by a person’s understandings, interpretations, and intentions and which is in response to, coordinated with, or oriented toward the actions of others.

Social facts

Enduring properties of social life that shape or constrain the actions individuals can take.

Social structure

Relatively stable, enduring patterns of social relationships, or social positions, and of numbers of people; patterns over which individuals have little control.

Sociological immagination

A way of looking at our personal experiences in the context of what is going on in the world around us

Sociology

The study of human society, including both social action and social organization

Structural-functionalism

A general perspective in sociology that places its main emphasis on functional integration and social structure

Symbolic interactionism

An approach to human behavior as constructed in interaction and interpreted through culture, stressing the collective attribution of meaning to social life. The most widespread theoretical orientation within interactionism.

Theory

A systematic attempt to explain how two or more phenomena are related.

Social Solidarity

The condition that results when underlying social forces bind people together.

Mechanical Solidarity

Solidarity that is based on common beliefs, values, and customs.

Organic Solidarity

Interdependence among a group of people based on an intricate division of labor

Bourgeoisie

The social class in a capitalist industrialized society that owns and means of production (the land, factories, machinery, and so forth).

Capitalists

Members of the bourgeoisie

Proletariat

The members of a capitalist industrialized society who have no control the mans of production-priamilry the workers.

Class Consciousness

A sense of shared interests and problems among members of social class

Variable

Any factor capable of change

Dependent Variable

The factor that is affected by one or more independent variables in an experiment

Independent Variable

The factor that affects one or more dependent variables in an experiment

Qualitative Research

Research that depends primairly on subjective interpretations by the investigator of mterial or event. Think of how people feel personal stories etc vibe check etc.

Quantitative research

Research that relies on statistical analysis of data