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- qualitative data
- form of words
- marcosociology
- broad features of society
- social institutions
- religion, education
- control variable
- held constant to test impact of independent variable
- representative sample
- random sample from everyone in the population
- age cohort
- distribution of people in different age categories
- conflict theorist
- competiting for scarce resources
- tertiary economy
- services and information
- cultural relativism
- understand people in the context of their own culture
- sociology
- a better understanding of society
- functionalist
- society as a working unit; ex- religion is a social institution that holds society together
- infant mortality rate
- best indicator or well-being of a nation
- sexual identity and behavior
- socially constructed
- marx
- alienation; indifference to work and capitalist setting
- iron law of oligarchy
- bureauracracies ruled by few
- frequency
- number of people in each category
- status inconsistency
- phd with no job
- mar
- conflict theorist
- capitalism in the us
- economic and political power more concrentrated
- institutional discrimination
- built into social systems
- marx thought ecoomics
- key in social change
- ethnocentrism
- use your culture to judge others
- socialist economy
- means of production publicly held
- poverty
- increases chances of poor health
- theory
- set of abstract statments
- deviance
- relative in relation to norms, time and situation
- coorelation
- change in one variable associated with a change in the other
- intergenerational mobility
- you move above the class position of your parents
- gender
- cultural meaning of masculinity and feminitiy
- alineation
- merton; provide desires without legitiamte means to reach goals
- independent variable
- cause example - religion as related to voting preferences
- power elite model
- power concentrated in the hands of a few people at the top; conflict theory
- validity
- accurately measuring what you what; ex. height not a valid measure of intelligence
- schools do not
- mainstream and door keep
- social structure
- regulate human behavior
- sociological imagination
- c. wright mills; look at human behavior in the context of other forces
- mean
- average; deceptive because of high and low numbers
- weber thought religion
- central force in social change
- demographic transition
- major changes in birth and death rate
- median
- middle number
- sociological perspective
- social experiences underlie behavior
- n
- number of people in the sample
- minorities
- not always smaller in number then the majority
- weber
- property, prestige and power
- operational definition
- measure intelligence by score on IQ test
- microsociology
- socialinteraction at the individual level
- primary group
- small number of people, close personal ties
- comte
- coined the term "sociology"
- population
- what you are studying
- weber
- traditional, charismaticand legal rational authority (legitimized power)
- durkheim
- social integration; degree to which people are tied to their society
- quantitative data
- form of numbers
- example of hypothesis
- people with a high level of education are more likely to be invovled in politics that those with a low level of education
- mead
- role taking-aniticpate what others epect of us i nsocial situations
- examples of variables
- occupation, political party preference
- caste
- not an open system based on achieved status
- social stratification
- form of inequality=rank ordering of categories of people
- weber studied bureacracy
- rationalization of society for maximum efficiency
- generalized others
- mead; conception of expectations held by society
- empirical information
- concrete evidences and data
- culture
- not biologically inhereited
- correlation
- example -1.8 = weak negative relationship
- mode
- most frequent number