Sociology

3. A testable proposition
5. A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs.
8. A theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society
9. Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
13. (two words) Specific individuals that impact a person's life
14. An extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be
15. A German word that means to understand in a deep way
17. An error of treating an abstract concept as though it has real, material existence
18. The unrecognized to unintended consequences of a social process
19. (two words) a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources
20. the systematic study of society and social interaction
21. (two words)The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values

1. Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
2. A proposed explanation about social interactions or society.
4. (two words) In-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data
6. The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior
7. (two words) A wide scale view of the role of social structures within a society.
10. The scientific study of social patterns
11. The part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity
12. A group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture
16. An attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change