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systemic study of human society and social interaction   sociology  
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large social grouping that shares the same geographical terriotry and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations   society  
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relationship in which the lives of all people are intertwined closely and any ones nations problems are part of a larger global problem   global indepence  
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ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society   sociological imagination  
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nations with highly industrialized economies   high income countries or industrial countriesexamples: US, canada, Australia, NZ, japan  
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nations with industrializing economies, usually in urban areas   middle income countries/ developing countries; developing countries  
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nations with little industralization and low levels of nation and personal income   low income countries/ underdeveloped countries  
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process by which socities are transformed from depedence on agriculure and handmade productes to an empahsis on manufactuing and related industries   industrialization  
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process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities rather that in rural areas   urbanization  
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belief that the world can best be understood through scientific inquiry. who created this?   called positivism; Auguste Comte  
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herbert spencers belief that those species of animals, including humans best adapted to their enviroment surive and prosper, whereas those poorly adapted die out   social darwinism  
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who believed a society would emerge if women and men were treated equally   Harriet Martineau  
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Emilie Durkheims term for partterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over each person   social facts  
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Emilie Durkheims designation for a condition in which social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and of a sense of purpose in society   anomie  
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anomie is likely to occur in a peroid of   social change  
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who belived that conflict especially between social classes is necessary in order to produce social change and a better society   Karl Marx  
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who acknowleged that economic intrests are important in shaping human action. and thought that economic systems were heavily infuenced by other factors in society   Max Weber  
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a set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe, explain, and predict social events   theory  
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the sociological approach that views society as a stable, ordely system   functionalist perspectives  
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functions that are intended and or overtly recongized by the participants in a social unit   manifest functions  
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unintended functions that are hidden and remain unacknowledged by partipants   latent functions  
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the sociological approach that views groups in society as engaged in a countinous power struggle for control of scarce resources   conflict perspective  
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an approach that examines whole societies, large-scale social structures and social systems   macrolevel analysis  
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sociological theory and research that focus on small groups rather than on large-scale social structures   microlevel analysis  
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society is the sum of interactions of individuals and groups   symbolic interactionist perspectives  
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attempts to explain social life in modern societies that are characertized by postindustrialization, consumerism and global comunications   post modern perspectives  
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statement of the expected relationship between two or more variables   hypothesis  
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any concept with measureable traits or characteristics that can change or vary from one person, time, situation or society to another   variable  
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in an experiment, that variable assumed to be the cuase of the relationship between variables   independent variable  
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in an experiment, that variable assumed to be caused by the independent variables   dependent variable  
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the extent to which a study or research instrament accurately measures what it is supposed to measure   validity  
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the extent to which a study or research instrument yields consistent results when applied to different individuals at one time or to the same individuals over time   reliablity  
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