Sociology Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context	sociological perspective
people who share a culture and a territory	society
the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society	social location
the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods	science
the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to explain and predict events in our natural environments	natural sciences
the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations	social sciences
a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation	generalization
recurring characteristics or events	patterns
those things that "everyone knows" are true	common sense
using objective, systematic observations to test theories	the scientific method
the application of the scientific approach to the social world	positivism
the scientific study of society and human behavior	sociology
Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers	class conflict
Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production	bourgeoisie
Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production	proletariat
the degree to which members of a group or society feel united by shared values and other social bonds; also known as social cohesion	social integration
the view that a sociologist's personal values or biases should not influence social research	value free
the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly	values
total neutrality	objectivity
repeating a study in order to test its findings	replication
a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as "to have insight into someone's situation"	Verstehen
the meanings that people give their own behavior	subjective meanings
Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior	social facts
sociological research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups	basic or pure sociology
the use of sociology to solve problems- from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution	applied sociology
a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another	theory
a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols the people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another	symbolic interactionism
a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contribute to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism	functional analysis
a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources	conflict theory
a examination of large-scale patterns of society	macro-level analysis
an examination of small-scale patterns of society	micro-level analysis
what people do when they are in one another's presence	social interaction
communication without words through gestures, use of space, silence, and so on	nonverbal interaction
the growing interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism	globalization
capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globes dominant economic system	globalization of capitalism
Phase I	1900-1920 focus: research to improve society (collected data)
Phase II	1920-1941 focus: gathering research and not so much for reform sake
Phase III	1945- present focus: apply research they've gained to affect change
discuss the different views of sociology	Analytical standpoint is preferred because it doesn't change society. Social reform fixes problems, however, they could make a situation worse
father of sociology	Auguste Comte
Herbert Spencer	applied "Social Darwinism" to the study of society bringing survival of the fittest to the society
Karl Marx	proposed an idea of class conflict; talked about capitalists being the upper class called the working class called the bourgeoisie; the lower class and they could never move up called the proletariat
W.E.B DuBois	one of the first black sociologists; began as just collecting data but after years of frustration because he didn't see any progress he became a social reformer. became the founder of the NAACP

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