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13 Cards in this Set
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Sociology
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discipline that attempts to understand these social forces: the forces outside us that shape our lives, interest, and personalitites.
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Social Determination
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the assumption that humans behavior is explained exclusively by social factors
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Human Agency
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individuals are not passive, they activly shape social life by adapting to, negotiating with, and changing social structures
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Sociolgoical Imagination
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task of sociology was to realize that individual circumstances are inextricably linked to the structure of society
written by: C. Wright Mills |
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Positivism
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knowledge bades on systematic observation, experiment, and comparison
Comte |
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Social facts
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social factors that exist external to individuls such as tradition, values, laws, religious ideology, and population density
Durkheim |
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Sociological theory
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set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of sociala nd societal events
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Sample
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a representative part of a population
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Variables
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an attitude, behavior, or condition that can vary in magnitude and significance from case to case
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Control group
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group of subjects not exposed to the independent variable
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Experimental Group
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group of subjects who are exposed to the independent variable
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Dependent variable
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variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable
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Independent variable
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variable that affects another variable
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