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Antipositivism
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The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural notrms, and societal values
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Conflict theory
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A theory that looks at society as a competition for limited recources
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Dynamic equilibium
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A stable state in which all parts of a healthy society are working together properly
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Dysfunctions
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Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
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Figuration
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The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior
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Functionalism
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A theoretical approach that sees society as a structrue with interrelated parts desigened to meet te biological and social needs of individual that make up that society
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Function
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The part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity
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grand theories
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Attempts to explain large-scale relationships and anwwer fundamental questions such as why societeis form and why they change
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Latent functions
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The unrecognized or unintended consequences of a social process
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Macro-level
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A wide-scale view of the role of social structures within society
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Manifest functions
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Sought sonsequences of a social process
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Micro-level theories
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The study of specifice relationsihps between individuals or small groups
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Paradigms
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Philosophical and theortical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
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Positivism
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The scientific study of social patterns
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Qualitiative sociology
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In-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data
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