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