Chapter one

3. understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context
6. Approach that depicts human interaction as theatrical performances
7. class owning the means for producing wealth
8. approach emphasizing the role of conflict, competition, and constraint within a society
12. social interdependency based on a high degree of specialization in roles
13. a set of assumptions about an area of study accepted as true
14. understanding social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others
15. Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers
17. the patterned interaction of people in social relationships
18. Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production
21. Ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives
22. negative consequence of an aspect of society
23. emphasizes the contributions of each part of a society

1. the ability to control the behavior of others
2. Durkheim's term for the unity (a shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of performing the same or similar tasks
4. approach that focuses on the interactions among people based on their mutually understood symbols
5. the mind-set emphasizing knowledge, reason, and planning
9. the way society is held together
10. the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
11. forces for conflict and change
16. the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation
19. the systematic study of human society
20. the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern