Sociology exam 1

people who share a culture and a territory

the group memberships that people have because of their location in his- tory and society

the application of sys- tematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods

the intel- lectual and academic disciplines designed to comprehend, ex- plain, and predict events in our natural environments

the intellec- tual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observat

a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation

those things that “everyone knows” are true

the use of objective systematic observations to test theories

the application of the scientific approach to the social world

the scientific study of society and human behavior

Marx’s term for the struggle between capitalists and workers

Marx’s term for capitalists, those who own the means of production

Marx’s term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production

the de- gree to which members of a group or a society feel united by shared values and other so- cial bonds; also known as social cohesion

the view that a so- ciologist’s personal values or biases should not influence so- cial research

the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly

value neutrality in research

the repetition of a study in order to test its findings

a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as “to have in- sight into someone’s situation”

the meanings that people give their own behavior

Durkheim’s term for a group’s patterns of behavior

a statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one ano

a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish mean- ing, develop their views of t

a theo- retical framework in which so- ciety is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a func- tion that, when fulfilled, con- trib

a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources

an ex- amination of large-scale pat- terns of society

an ex- amination of small-scale pat- terns of society

what people do when they are in one another’s presence

communication without words through gestures, use of space, silence, and so on

sociology being used for the public good; especially the sociological per- spective (of how things are re- lated to one another) guiding pol