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Sociology Ch01-Introduction to Sociology

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Researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values.

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Researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values.

antipositivism.

Theory (one of the 3 perspectives) that looks at society as a competition for limited resources.

conflict theory.

an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be.

a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs.

analysis a technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance.

a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly.
dysfunctions.

dynamic equilibrium.

social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society.

the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior.

the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity.

a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society.

the organized and generalized attitude of a social group.

generalized others.

an attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change.

grand theories.

a testable proposition latent functions the unrecognized or unintended consequences of a social process.

a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society.

sought consequences of a social process micro-level theories the study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups.

manifest functions.