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36 Cards in this Set
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archival records
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The use of existing record that have been produced or maintained by persons or organizations other than the researcher.
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class conflict
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the view of Karl Marx that society is divided into those who own the means of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to struggles between classes.
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constructed reality
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our experience of the world. Meaning is not something that inheres in things; it is a property that derives from, or arises out of, that interaction that takes place among people in the course of the daily lives.
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control group
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the group that affords a neutral standard against which the changes in an experimental group can be measured.
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correlation
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a change in one variable associated with a change in another variable
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dependent variable
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the variable that is affected in an experimental setting
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dialectical materialism
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the notion in Marxist theory that development depends on the clash of contradictions and the creation of new, more advanced structures out of there clashes.
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dysfunctions
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observed consequences that lessen that adaptation or adjustment of a system
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economic determinist
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a believe in the doctrine that economic factors are the primary determinants of the structure of societies and social change.
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experiment
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a technique in which researchers work with two groups that are identical n all relevant respects. They introduce a change in one group, but not in the other group. that procedure permits researchers to test the effects of an independent variable on a dependent variable
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experimental group
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the group in which researchers introduce a change in an experimental setting
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functions
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observed consequences that permit the adaptation or adjustment of a system
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hypothesis
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a proposition that can be tested to determine its validity
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independent variable
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the variable that causes an effect in an experimental setting
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latent functions
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consequences that are neither intended nor recognized by the participants in a system
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macrosociology
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the study of large-scale and long-term social processes
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manifest functions
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consequences that re intended and recognized by the participants in the system
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microsociolgy
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the detailed study of what indivdiuals say, do and think moment by moment as they go through their daily lives.
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operational definition
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a definition developed by taking abstract concepts and putting them in a form that permits their measurement
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participant observation
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a technique in which researchers engage in activities with the people they as observing
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power
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the ability to control the behavior of others even against their will
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random sample
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a sampling procedure in which researchers select subjects on the basis of chance so that every individual in the population has the same opportunity to be chosen
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secondary data analysis
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analysis of data collected by others
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social darwinsim
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the application of evolutionary notions and the concept of the survival of the fittest to the social world.
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social dynamics
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those aspects of social life that pattern institutional development and have to so with social change
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social facts
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those aspects of social life that cannot be explained in terms of biological or mental characteristics of the individual. people experience the social fact as external to themselves in the sense that it has an independent reality and forms a part of their objective environments
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social statics
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those aspects of social life that have to do with order and stability and that allow societies to hold together and endure.
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sociological imagination
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the ability that see our private experiences and personal difficulties as entwined with the structural arrangement of our society and the historical times in which we live.
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sociology
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the scientific study of social interactions and social organization
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spurious correlation
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the apparent relationship between two variables produced by a their variable the influences the original variable.
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stratified random sample
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a sampling techniques in which researchers divide a population into relevant categories and draw a random sample from each of the categories.
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survey
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a method for gathering data on people's beliefs, values, attitudes, perceptions, motivation, and feelings. the data can be derived from interviews or questionnaires
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unobtrusive observation
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a technique in which researchers observe the activities of people without intruding or participating in the activities
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value-free sociology
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the view of max Weber that sociologists must not allow their personal biases to affect the conduct of the scientific research.
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variable
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a concept that can take on different values; the term scientist apply that something they think influences (or is influenced by) something else
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Verstehenan
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approach to the study of social life developed by max Weber in which sociologists mentally attempt to place themselves in the shoes of the other people and identify what they think and how they feel; translates roughly as "understanding"
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