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Sociology Midterm Flashcards
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- 1SociologyPatterns of human activity with meaning & understanding derived from norms, rules, and behaviors created by people
- 2Epistemologytheory of how humans know
- 3Variablesrepresentations of abstract and concrete constructs
- 4attributescharacteristic values/descriptions of a concept
- 5Intervening variableprocess/mechanism in which the researcher can see a cause/effect
- 6Necessary causea condition must be present for effect to follow (i.e. B cannot happen without A)
- 7Sufficient causeif present, this condition guarantees one outcome (i.e. if you skip all exams, you will fail, but you can fail other ways)
- 8reductionismrisk of reducing issue complexity to 1 conclusion
- 9ecological fallacycannot make conclusions about individuals from group-level data
- 10reificationtendency to talk about social artifacts as if they are independent of humans
- 11The Time Dimensionthe appropriate period of time to get the answers you need
- 12Cross-sectional surveysstudy across a single time period
- 13Longitudinal surveysallows for systematic observations through time
- 14Conceptagreed upon expression of some facet of social world that allows us to summarize and categorize the "reality" of social world
- 15Nominal definitionwhatever you name something as, that is what it is
- 16Operational definitionprecisely specifies how a concept will be measured
- 17Dimensionsfurther defines how things are explored
- 18Measuresthe way a concept will be exactly measured & studied (physically)
- 19Observer subjectivitydifferent interviewers receive naturally different results because they cannot completely replicate another person
- 20Indexeseach answer on the survey is represented by a number; cumulative score is used for the index
- 21Indicatorsomething that shows the presence of a dimension
- 22Degree of Precisionthe level of measurement required
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- College Sociology Flashcards on Sociology Midterm Flashcards, created by Beth V on 12/10/2025.
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