Definitions
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- Accuracy: using a tool makes the measuring more precise.
- Anti-positivism: the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity
as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal
values.
- Case study: in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual.
- Code of ethics: a set of guidelines that the American Sociological Association
has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible
scholarship in sociology.
- Conflict theory: a theory that looks as society as a competition for limited
resources.
- Constructivism: an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes
that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be.
- Content analysis: applying a systematic approach to record and value
information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand.
- Correlation: when a change in one variable coincides with a change in
another variable, but does not necessarily indicate causation.
- Culture: a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs.
- Debunking: looking beyond the obvious to expose the falseness by
examining merit, logic, and evidence.
- Dependent variables: a variable changed by other variables.
- Dramaturgical analysis: a technique sociologists use in which they view
society through the metaphor of theatrical performance.
- Dynamic equilibrium: a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society
work together properly.
- Dysfunctions: social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the
operation of society.
- Empirical evidence: evidence that comes from direct observations ,
scientifically gathered data, or experimentation.
- Ethnography: participating and observing thinking and behavior in a social
setting.
- Experiment: the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
- Field research: gathering data from a natural environment without doing a
lab experiment or a survey .
- Figuration: the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an
individual and the society that shapes that behavior.
- Function: the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and
the contribution it makes to structural continuity.
- Functionalism: a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 2:57 PM
- Accuracy: using a tool makes the measuring more precise.
- Anti-positivism: the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity
as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal
values.
- Case study: in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual.
- Code of ethics: a set of guidelines that the American Sociological Association
has established to foster ethical research and professionally responsible
scholarship in sociology.
- Conflict theory: a theory that looks as society as a competition for limited
resources.
- Constructivism: an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes
that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be.
- Content analysis: applying a systematic approach to record and value
information gleaned from secondary data as it relates to the study at hand.
- Correlation: when a change in one variable coincides with a change in
another variable, but does not necessarily indicate causation.
- Culture: a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs.
- Debunking: looking beyond the obvious to expose the falseness by
examining merit, logic, and evidence.
- Dependent variables: a variable changed by other variables.
- Dramaturgical analysis: a technique sociologists use in which they view
society through the metaphor of theatrical performance.
- Dynamic equilibrium: a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society
work together properly.
- Dysfunctions: social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the
operation of society.
- Empirical evidence: evidence that comes from direct observations ,
scientifically gathered data, or experimentation.
- Ethnography: participating and observing thinking and behavior in a social
setting.
- Experiment: the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
- Field research: gathering data from a natural environment without doing a
lab experiment or a survey .
- Figuration: the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an
individual and the society that shapes that behavior.
- Function: the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and
the contribution it makes to structural continuity.
- Functionalism: a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with
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