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Sociology
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Is the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior
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Common Sense
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Refers to ideas that are so completely taken for granted that they have never been seriously questioned and seem to be sensible to any reasonable person.
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Sociological imagination
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When individual problems or private troubles are rooted in social or public issues, what is happening in the social world outside of one’s personal control. It is the relationship between individual experiences and public issues.
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Levels of analysis
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Social groups from the smallest to the largest
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The social world model
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Helps us picture the levels of analysis in our social surroundings as an interconnected series of small groups, organizations, institutions, and societies.
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Social units
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Interconnected parts of the social world
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Social structure
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When social units combine together. It holds societies together and brings order to our lives by regulating the way the units work in combination
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Social institutions-
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found in every society (family, education, religion, politics, economics, science etc.) They provide the rules, roles and relationships to meet human needs. The parts through which organized social activities take place.
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National society
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Includes a population of people, usually living within a specified geographic area, who are connected by common ideas and are subject to a particular political party
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Social processes
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The actions taken by people in social units
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Environment-
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Surrounds each social unit. Includes everything that influences the social unit, such as its physical and organizational surroundings and technological innovations.
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Micro-level analysis-
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A focus on individual or small-group interaction (face-to-face interactions in dyads or small groups)
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Meso-level analysis
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-intermediate size social units. Involves looking at units smaller than the nation but larger than the local community or even the region.
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Macro-level analysis
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Studying the largest social units in the social world. Involves looking at entire nations, global forces, and international social trends.
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Empirical knowledge
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Empirical knowledge means that the facts have been objectively (without opinion or bias) gathered and carefully measured and that what is being measured is the same for all people who observe it.
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