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Vocabulary

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Sociology   The scientific study of human behavior in society  
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sociological imagination   seeing the relationship between individual experience and larger social influence  
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microsociology   examines the patterns of individuals' social interaction in specific settings  
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macrosociology   examines the large-scale pattern and processes that characterizes society as a whole  
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theory   a set of statements that explains why a phenomenon occurs  
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empirical   information that is based on observation , experiment, or other data collection rather than ideology, religion, intuition,or conventional wisdom  
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social facts   aspect of social life, external to the individual that can be measured  
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social solidarity   Social cohesiveness and harmony  
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division of labor   an interdependence of different tasks and occupation,characteristic of industrialized societies, that produce social unity and facilitates change  
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capitalism   an economic system based on the private ownership of property and the means of production  
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alienation   feeling separated from one's group or society  
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value free   separating one's personal values, opinions,ideology, and beliefs from scientific research  
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functionalism   maintain that society is a complex system of interdependent parts that work together to ensure a society's survival  
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dysfunction   social patterns that have a negative impact on a group or society  
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manifest functions   purposes and activities that are intended and recognized; they're present and clearly evident  
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latent functions   purposes and activities that are unintended and unrecognized; they're present but not immediately obvious  
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conflict theory   examines how and why groups disagree, struggle over power and compete for scarce resources  
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feminist theories   examines women's social, economic, and political inequality  
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symbolic interaction theory (interactionism)   examines people's everyday behavior through the communication of knowledge, ideas,beliefs,and attitudes  
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social interaction   process in which people take each other into account in their own behavior  
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