Human Behavior Vocabulary

2. an approach to research that is primarily concerned with studying the nature, quality, and meaning of human experience.
4. perspectives symbolic interactionist perspective, functionalist perspective, and the conflict perspective
9. the process through which people learn skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate to their position(s) in a social group or society.
11. the unequal treatment of people who happen to belong to a particular group or category.
12. an outgrowth of the 16th, 17th, and 18th century European discoveries of the remains of ancient civilizations and fossil ancestors, as well as European encounters with contemporary cultures that differed greatly from those of Europe.
13. perspective focuses on the negative, conflicted, and ever-changing nature of society
14. a prediction about the relationship between variables
16. the expected behavior associated with a particular social position.

1. a term originally introduced by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realize all of one’s potentialities.
3. to represent oneself as the author of some work that is in fact the work of someone else.
5. a political ideal promoting the equal treatment, standing, or status of people in certain respects.
6. a person’s own biography, or written account of his or her life, distinguished from a journal or diary by being a connected prose narrative, and distinguished from memoirs by dealing with contemporary events and personalities.
7. perspective each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society’s functioning as a whole
8. interactionist perspective directs sociologists to consider the symbols and details of everyday life, what these symbols mean, and how people interact with each other
10. a varied discipline that it can only be loosely identified as the study of social relationships, institutions, and structures.
15. a branch of philosophy that investigates what guides us in deciding what is right and what is wrong