Sociology Vocab 1

A predisposition about something in one's environment.

A theory that focuses on contradictory interests, inequality between social groups, and the resulting conflict and change.

Opposing phenomena within the same social system.

The analysis evaluation of information.

Variable in an experience that is INFLUENCED by the independent variable. 

*Results are dependent on what the independent variable does.*

Argument by appealing to popular prejudices or passions.

Argument by an illegitimate appeal to authority.

Use of conclusions to support the assumptions that were necessary to make the conclusions.

The assertion that what is true to the part is necessarily true of the whole.

Overgeneralizing.

Making something abstract into something concrete.

Something that does not follow logically from what has preceded it.

Argument by attacking the opponent personally rather than dealing with the issue.

The argument that things could not have worked out any other way than they did.

The organization of data to show the number of times each item occurs.

A set of ideas that explain or justify some aspect of social reality.

The variable in an experiment that is MANIPULATED to see how it effects changes in the dependent variable.

A collective pattern of dealing with a basic social function.

• GOVERNMENT 
• ECONOMY
• EDUCATION
• FAMILY
• MARRIAGE
• RELIGON
• MEDIA

Reciprocally influenced behavior on the part of 2 or more people.

The average.

The score below which are half of the score and above which are the other half.

*Number in the middle*

Shared exceptions about behavior.

A method of research in which one directly participates and observes the social reality being studied.

A problem that can be explained in terms of qualities of the individual.

Doing what is abstract as something concrete.

The behavior associated with a particular position in the social structure.

• A condition or pattern of behavior that contradicts some other condition or pattern of behavior;
• -is defined as incompatible with the desired quality of life
• -is caused, facilitated, or prolonged by social factors
• -Involves intergroup conflict
• -and requires social action for resolution.

Position in the social system based on economic resources, power, education, prestige, and lifestyle.

Arrangement of society into groups that are unequal with regard to such valued resources as wealth, power, and prestige.

A sociological theory that focuses on social systems and how their individual parts maintain order.

A method of research in which a sample of people are interviewed or given questionnaires in order to get data on some phenomena.

A sociologic theory that focuses on the interaction between individuals, the individuals perception of situations, and they way in which social life is constructed through interaction.

A statistical method for determining the probability that research findings occurred by chance.

Things preferred because they are defined as having worth.

Passively accept circumstances, view self as inadequate

• Strategies employed to cope with a personal problem.
• - Escape Mechanism (neurosis, illness, self destructive behavior)
• - Sought from specialists (psychologist or religious advisor)

Institutions, norms, roles, values

Structural Functionalism

Conflict Theory

...at the point of death "I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

Symbolic interaction.

• 1. Contradicts some other condition or pattern of behavior and is defined as incompatible with the desired quality of life.
• 2. Is caused, facilitated, or prolonged by factors that operate at multiple levels of social life.
• 3. Involves intergroup conflict.
• 4. Requires social action to be resolved.

Recognizes the need for collective action.

Blaming or downgrading oneself.

Any trait or characteristic that varies in value or magnitude.