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Functionalist Perspective - Answer-theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system conflcit theory - Answer-Karl Marx's theory sees social life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality. symbolic interaction - Answer-the ongoing use of language and gestures in anticipation of how the other will react; a conversation, looks at everyday interactions of people to help explain society Communist Manifesto - Answer-A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views. Comte - Answer-coined the term sociology, believed in positivism, divided sociology into social statistics/dynamics Weber - Answer-combined economic sociology and the sociology of religion, wrote "protestant ethic", bureaucratic theory, rationalization theory, 3 types of authority Karl Marx - Answer-founded historical materialism, conflict theory, and theorized social classes and class conflict Durkheim - Answer-created the functionalist perspective, developed concept of anomie, practitioner of positivist sociology Cooley's Looking Glass Self - Answer-a self-image based on how we think others see us, ones self grows from their interactions and relationships with others G. H. Mead - Answer-developed symbolic interactionist theory, Theory of self,"I" and "Me" - Answer-"me" represents the expectation and attitude of others towards "me", "I" is the reaction to "Me" or ones individuality Culture - Answer-the beliefs, way of life, art, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a particular society Society - Answer-is a group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture. Organic solidarity - Answer-is social unity based on a division of labor that results in people depending on each other mechanical solidarity - Answer-is the sense of togetherness in a society that arises when people, performing similar work, share similar experiences, customs, values, and beliefs. Goffman - Answer-"The presentation of self, introduced the dramatugical approach, used symbolic interaction method dramaturgy - Answer-Approach that depicts human interaction as theatrical performances cultural relativism - Answer-the practice of judging a culture by its own standards instead of against another culture research cycle - Answer-Theory, hypothesis (deductive), empirical observations, analysis (inductive) ideology - Answer-a comprehensive vision, refers to the sum total of a person's values, beliefs, assumptions, and expectations. participant observation - Answer-a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activitiessurvey - Answer-method of sociological investigation is defined as the evaluation of experiences or opinions of a group of people via questions questionaire - Answer-a collection of written or printed questions with an answer choice made to conduct a survey norms - Answer-social expectations that guide behavior reliability - Answer-consistency of measurement