Question | Answer |
conflict perspective | The view where society is a compsite of groups with clashing interests struggling over scarce social resources |
sociology | The systematic study of human society and social interaction. |
society | Large social grouping that shares the same geographic area, subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations. |
social fact | Patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling generated at the individual level but observable at the societal level |
anomie | A condition or situation in which society provides little moral or behavioral guidance to an individual. |
capitalist class | The class that owned the key economic resources in industrial society. Also known as the bourgeoisie class |
industrialization | The process by which societies are transformed from agriculture-based exonomic activity to manufacturing-based economic activity. |
urbanization | The movement of an increasing proportion of a society's population from rural areas to cities. |
functionalist perspective | Views society as a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts. |
latent function | The largely unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution. |
macro-level | A focus on the social institutions and large-scale social puocesses that shapr society as a whole. |
manifest function | The intened, expected or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution. |
micro-level | A focus on the dynamics and meanings of face-to-face interactions between people and small groups. |
proletariat | working class |
working class | proletariat |
social dysfunction | The undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system. |
social structure | The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society. |
sociological perspective | The ability to see the geeral in the particular. |
symbolic-interaction perspective | A view of society as the ongoing product of the everyday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups. |
theoretical perspective | A basic overall image or paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society. |
theory | A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how tow or maore social phenomena are related. |
sociology | the application of the scientific method to the study of industrial society would allow for the improvement of society. |
bourgeoisie class | The class that owned the key economic resources in industrial society. Also known as the capitalist class. |