Across
- 6. Wrote the “ Communist Manifesto.”
- 8. Likelihood of obtaining consistent results using the same measure.
- 10. A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can’t expect life to be predictable.
- 12. The extent to which an instrument measures what is intended to measure.
- 16. The outcome that the researcher is trying to explain.
- 17. Shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind peoples actions.
- 23. This theory states that various social institutions exist to serve some function to keep society running.
- 25. Scientists use these to form answers to questions.
- 26. A system of concepts and relationships.
Down
- 1. A proposed relationship between two variables.
- 2. A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices.
- 3. The study of human society.
- 4. Starts with empirical observations and then forms a theory.
- 5. Concerned with social dynamics across the breadth of a society.
- 7. Conflict between competing interests is the basic animating force of social change and society in general.
- 9. Values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms.
- 11. Starts with a theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical observations, then analyzes the data.
- 13. Any institution in society that works to shape the behavior of the group or people within it.
- 14. Moral beliefs.
- 15. A method in numeric form that seeks to obtain information about the social world.
- 18. Seeks to understand local interactional contexts; generally including participant observation.
- 19. How values tell us to behave.
- 20. The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others.
- 21. A questioning of the notion of progress and history.
- 22. Established “formal sociology”
- 24. Simultaneous variation in two variables.