Sociology: Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective

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Across
  1. 3. understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context
  2. 6. Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers
  3. 8. the growing interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism
  4. 9. a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as "to have insight into someone's situation"
  5. 12. communication without words through gestures, use of space, silence, and so on
  6. 13. the view that a sociologist's personal values or beliefs should not influence social research
  7. 18. an examination of large-scale patterns of society
  8. 19. the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods
  9. 20. an examination of small-scale patterns of society
  10. 21. sociological research for the purpose of making discoveries about life in human groups, not for making changes in those groups
  11. 22. value neutrality in research
  12. 24. people who share a culture and a territory
  13. 25. Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production
  14. 28. one person's actions influencing someone else
  15. 29. the meanings that people give their own behavior
  16. 30. the use of sociology to solve problems - from the micro level of classroom interaction and family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution
  17. 31. a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium
  18. 32. a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation
  19. 33. Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production
Down
  1. 1. applying sociology for the public good; especially the use of the sociological perspective to guide politicians and policy makers
  2. 2. capitalism becoming the globe's dominant economic system
  3. 4. the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to comprehend, explain, and predict events in our natural environments
  4. 5. a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another
  5. 7. a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another
  6. 10. Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior
  7. 11. the repetition of a study in order to test its findings
  8. 13. the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly
  9. 14. the application of the scientific approach to the social world
  10. 15. the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society
  11. 16. those things that "everyone knows" are true
  12. 17. a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources
  13. 23. the degree to which members of a group or a society feel united by shared values and other social bonds
  14. 24. the scientific study of society and human behavior
  15. 26. the use of objective, systematic observations to test theories
  16. 27. the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations