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SOC 206: Chapter 1
Thinking About Social Problems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Objective element of a social problem | Awareness of social conditions through one's own life experiences and through reports in the media |
| Subjective element of a social problem | The belief that a particular social condition is harmful to society, or to a segment of society, and that it should and can be changed |
| Social problem | A social condition that a segment of society views as harmful to members of society and in need of remedy |
| Structure | The way society is organized including institutions, social groups, statuses, and roles |
| Institution | An established and enduring pattern of social relationships |
| Social group | Two or more people who have a common identity, interact, and form a social relationship |
| Primary groups | Usually small numbers of individuals characterized by intimate and informal interaction |
| Secondary groups | Involving small or large numbers of individuals, groups that are task-oriented and are characterized by impersonal and formal interaction |
| Status | A position that a person occupies within a social group |
| Ascribed status | A status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of factors over which the individual has no control |
| Achieved status | A status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of factors of which the individual has some control |
| Roles | The set of rights, obligations, and expectations associated with a status |
| Culture | The meanings and ways of life that characterize a society, including beliefs, values, norms, sanctions, and symbols |
| Beliefs | Definitions and explanations about what is assumed to be true |
| Values | Social agreements about what is considered good and bad, right and wrong, desirable and undesirable |
| Norms | Socially defined rules of behavior, including folkways, laws, and mores |
| Sanctions | Social consequences for conforming to or violating norms |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else |
| Sociological imagination | The ability to see the connections between our personal lives and the social world in which we live |
| Manifest functions | Consequences that are intended and commonly recognized |
| Latent functions | Consequences that are unintended and often hidden |
| Anomie | A state of normlessness in which norms and values are weak or unclear |
| Alienation | A sense of powerlessness and meaninglessness in people's lives |
| Variable | Any measurable event, characteristic, or property that varies or is subject to change |
| Hypothesis | A prediction or educated guess about how one variable is related to another variable |
| Dependent variable | The variable that the researcher wants to explain; the variable of interest |
| Independent variable | The variable that's expected to explain change in the dependent variable |
| Experiment | A research method that involves manipulating the independent variable to determine how it affects the dependent variable |
| Survey research | A research method that involves eliciting information from respondents through questions |
| Sample | A portion of the population, selected to be representative so that the information from the sample can be generalized to a larger population |
| Field research | Research that involves observing and studying social behavior in settings in which it occurs naturally |
| Social movement | An organized group of individuals with a common purpose to either promote or resist social change through collective action |
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