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sociology
study of the evolution, development, and functioning of human society
positivism
the belief that you can understand the world through science
social darwinism
The idea that certain people in human society worked harder, adapted better and deserved to be more successful than others.
social facts
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life (social norms)
anomie
If you lose social values you lose control
theory
A proposed relationship between two or more concepts
functionalist perspectives
views society as a stable & orderly system
manifest functions
function that is planned and intentional
latent functions
function that is unintentional and unrecognized
conflict perspectives
society is a continuous power struggle
macro-level analysis
large scale patterns of society
micro-level analysis
small scale patterns of society
symbolic internationalism
society is created to maintain meaningful INTERACTIONS
post-modern perspectives
20th century & on issues
quantitative research
info that appears as numbers and data
qualitative research
info that appears as discriptive words
hypothesis
a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
variable
a factor that can change
reliability
consistency of measurement
research method
a systematic plan for doing research
independent variable
variable that is manipulated
dependent variable
The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
validity
the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
survey
collects data through interview/questionare
interview
collects data through asking a series of questions
secondary analysis
the analysis of data that have been collected by other researchers
content analysis
researchers try to codify a written deice of work
participant observation
a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities
ethnography
the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
experiment
type of research to see how people behave in certain situations/respond to things
experimental group
the group under study in an investigation
control group
the group which is held constant
correlation
when there's a dependent between two variables