SOC100H5 Midterm: Keyterms for Midterm One outlined
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Sociology - the systemic study of human society. Sociological imagination - seeing the general in the particular. Positivism a way of understanding based on science. Theory a statement of how and why specific facts are related. A basic image of society that guides thinking and research social structures. Any relatively stable pattern of social behaviour social functions. Human sciences cannot be scientific because of human subjectivity. Scientific sociology the study of society based on systemic observation of social behaviour interpretive sociology. The study of society that focuses on the meaning people attach to their social world critical sociology. The study of society that focuses on the need for social change empirical evidence. Information we can verify with our senses reliability consistency in measurement validity. Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure. Hypothesis - a statement about the possible relationship between two or more variables. Beliefs specific statements that people hold to be true.
