Chapter 1 Vocabulary

2. Psychology, The study of how the social environment affects an individual's behavior and personality.
3. Interaction, Focuses on how people use symbols when interacting.
5. A negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system.
6. An attempt to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions.
7. Social science that studies human society and social behavior.
10. Perspective, Focuses on how individual's interact with one another in society.
13. Imagination, Ability to see connection between the larger world and your personal life
14. The consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its social system.
16. Explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena.
17. the study of past events.
18. Perspective, Focuses on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
20. The social science that studies behavior and mental processes.

1. Function, Intended and recognized consequence of some element of society.
4. Perspective, The belief that society is a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
8. The comparative study of the past and present cultures.
9. Marx, Believed the structure of society is influenced by how it's economy is organized. Divided it into two classes.
11. Perspectives, General set of assumptions about the nature of things.
12. Function, Unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society.
15. Anything that represents something else.
19. Type, Description compromised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society.