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Sociology: the scientific study of society and human behavior. The sociological perspective: stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. At the core of this perspective is another term coined as the sociological imagination. The sociological imagination: way of looking at the world that allows links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues, questions how people are influenced by their society. Biological determinism: the belief that the way we act reflects in-built biological traits such as the need to reproduce, the need to survive, and so on. Society: group of people that share a culture and territory. Social location: where people are located in a particular society, factors considered: occupation, income, education, gender, age, and ethnicity. Macrosociology: focuses on the broad features of society, used to analyze such things as social class and patriarchy, other examples: conflict theory, functionalism, and feminism.
