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Sociology Definitions Question and answers correctly solved Sociology Definitions Sociology - correct answer The science of society. It explores the influences and consequences of social behavior. Socialism - correct answer An economic system in which government owns productive property a...

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Sociology Definitions
Sociology - correct answer ✔The science of society. It explores the
influences and consequences of social behavior.


Socialism - correct answer ✔An economic system in which government
owns productive property and controls economic production in the name of
the people.


Social sin - correct answer ✔Social structures and institutions which are built
on individual sin


Norms - correct answer ✔The social behavior expected of people within a
society. Cultural rules or standards that are both informal and formal in nature
and which occur in all social groups.


Sanctions - correct answer ✔Positive and negative behaviors used to
enforce a norm


Sociological imagination - correct answer ✔The ability to take a second look
at the "world taken for granted", enabling an individual to see him/herself
within a social context


Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔A macro-theory that focuses on the
tensions and power struggles in a society


Dependent variable - correct answer ✔A variable that is influenced by
another (independent) variable

, Hypothesis - correct answer ✔A statement about how two or more variables
are related to each other


Reliability - correct answer ✔The consistency with which a measure can be
reproduced


Beliefs - correct answer ✔The general agreement by the members of a
society that a certain body of knowledge is true or valid


Counterculture - correct answer ✔A group's way of thinking or acting that is
an alternative to or in opposition to the norms and values of the larger society


Culture - correct answer ✔A society's way of life, consisting of beliefs,
values, norms and symbols.


Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔Attitude which support beliefs that values
and norms on one's culture are superior to those of another


Folkways - correct answer ✔The customary ways people do things


Law - correct answer ✔A type of social control exemplified by intention,
authority, obligation and sanctions


Mores - correct answer ✔Cultural rules that are essential for societal survival
and have been codified into moral and civil laws


Sanctions (negative) - correct answer ✔Punishments used for violations of
cultural rules

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