Study of Sociology Quiz 1

A group of people who shape their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish their group from other groups

The systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions

The disciplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world

The level of analysis that studies face to face and small group interactions in order to understand how those interactions affect the larger patterns and institutions of society

The level of analysis that studies large scale social structures in order to determine how they affect eh lives of groups and individuals

Research that translates the social world into numbers that can be treated mathematically, this type of research often tries to find cause and effect relationships.

Research that works with nonnumerical data such as texts, feildnotes, interview transcripts, photographs, and tape recordings; this type of research more often tries to understand how people make sense of their world.

A sense of disorientation that occurs when you enter a radically new social or cultural environment

Approaching the world without preconceptions in order to see things in a new way

One who has he piratical knowledge needed to get through daily life but not necessarily the scientific or technical knowledge of how things work

The entire way of life of a group of people (including both material and symbolic elements) that acts as a lens through which one views the world and is passed from one generation to the next

The principle of using one's own culture as a means or standard by which to evaluate another group or individual, leading to the view that culture other that one's own are abnormal

The principle of understanding other cultures on their own terms, rather than judging or evaluating according to one's own culture

The objects associated with a cultural group, such as tools, machine, utensils, buildings, and artwork: any physical object which we give social meaning

The ideas associated with a cultural group, including ways of thinking (beliefs, values, and assumptions) and ways of behaving (norms, interactions, and communication)