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1. A group of subjects exposed to a particular condition in a study.

2. Proceeds from general ideas - knowledge - or understanding of the social world from which specific hypotheses are logically deduced and tested.

3. Researcher try to understand either causal or correlational relationships between variables - either independent or dependent variables.

4. The quality of mind that seeks to expand the role of freedom - choice - and conscious decision in history by means of knowledge. Personal troubles often reflect broader social issues and problems.

5. Proceeds from the concrete observations from which general conclusions are inferred through a process of reasoning.

6. One that influences another variable.

7. Coined the term sociology in 1838 to demarcate the field - its subject matter - and methods.

8. One who focuses on a number of different levels of analysis in understanding social life - social interaction within groups - social structure.

9. Generated from theory and tested through actual observation.

10. Concerned with psychology with its emphasis on behavior and mental processes - social life - economic with its emphasis on production - distribution - and consumption of goods - political science with emphasis on political philosophy and forms of gov

11. A technique of differentiating between factors that may or may not influence the relationship between variable.

12. Sought to explain the origins of capitalism.

13. A sample that is relatively accurate in reflecting the population from which it is drawn.

14. Proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions for which hypotheses are derived. Also distinguished between manifest or intended - latent unintended - consequences of existing elements of social structure that are either

15. A research method where subjects are interviewed about their opinions - beliefs - behavior - in a series of questions - to aid the researcher in collecting information about general population characteristics or collecting information about some even

16. The theoretical giant of communist thought whose prophecies are still hotly debated.

17. A relationship that exists when a change in one variable coincides with - but does not cause - a change in another variable.

18. Developed by Max Weber as a means of characterizing and interpreting by applying reason to external and inner context of specific social situations - such as the origins of Western capitalism.

19. A group of subjects not exposed to the same condition as an experimental group.

20. One of three approaches to recent sociology studies. Views society as being characterized by conflict and inequality. Questions such factors as race - gender - social class - and age and the unequal distribution of socially valued goods and rewards (

21. A sample where every member of the population has the same chance of being chose for a study - and selecting as many as are thought necessary to achieve representativeness.

22. The science or discipline that studies societies - social groups - and the relationships between people.

23. Personal observation and description of social life in order to explain behavior - this methods entails the loss of precision but achieves a deeper grasp of the texture of social life.

24. A type of sampling that uses the differences that already exist in a population as the basis for selecting a sample i.e. - male/female. The researcher can then determine the percentage of each group - then randomly select a number of persons to be st

25. A means to advance human welfare through self-realization - full development of the cultivated personality - improvement of the human social condition.

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