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sociology, (TMS)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social facts (Émile Durkeim) | Products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to any individual - handshakes |
| Qualitative research methods | Tools of sociological inquiry that involve careful consideration and discussion of the meaning of non-numerical data |
| Quantitative research methods | Tools of sociological inquiry that involve examining numerical data with mathematics |
| Sociological sympathy | the skill of understanding others as they understand themselves |
| Sociological theory | Empirically based explanations and predictions and relationships between social facts |
| Social patterns | explainable and forseeable similarities and differences among people influenced by the social conditions in which they live |
| Sociological imagination | the capacity to consider how people's lives - including our own - are shaped by the social facts that surround us |
| Theory of mind | the recognition that other minds exist,, followed by the realization that we can try to imagine others' mental states |
| Looking-glass self ( Horton Cooley) | the self that emerges as a consequence of seeing ourselves as we think other people see us |
| Coding | a process in which segments of text are identifies as belonging to relevant categories |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | a phenomenon in which what people believe is true becomes true, even if it originally wasn't true |