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Sociology Terms Question and answers rated A+ Sociology Terms Sociology - correct answer the study and classification of human societies Social Dynamics - correct answer the study of social change Social Structure - correct answer the patterned interaction of people in social relatio...

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  • August 4, 2024
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Sociology Terms
Sociology - correct answer ✔the study and classification of human societies


Social Dynamics - correct answer ✔the study of social change


Social Structure - correct answer ✔the patterned interaction of people in
social relationships


Social Statistics - correct answer ✔The Study of social stability and order


Function - correct answer ✔a contribution made by some part of society


Positivism - correct answer ✔the belief that knowledge should be derived
from scientific observation


Conformity - correct answer ✔occurs partly because the group members
have been taught the value of group ways


perspective - correct answer ✔point of view


symbol - correct answer ✔anything that stands for or represents something
else


mores - correct answer ✔ways of behaving in specific situations


folkways - correct answer ✔Norms that lack moral significance

, cultural universals - correct answer ✔general cultural traits that exist in all
cultures


sanctions - correct answer ✔rewards and punishments used to encourage
people to follow norms


social categories - correct answer ✔groupings of persons who share a social
characteristic


material culture - correct answer ✔it will consist of physical objects


norms - correct answer ✔rules and expectations by which a society guides
the behavior of its members


ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔the practice of judging another culture by
the standards of one's own culture


diffusion - correct answer ✔borrowing of aspects of culture from other
cultures


peer groups - correct answer ✔only agents of socialization that are not
primarily controlled by parents


socialization - correct answer ✔process of learning to participate in groups


desocialization - correct answer ✔a process of destroying old culural norms,
beliefs, and values

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