SOCIOL 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Public Sociology, Social Fact
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The midterm will utilize short answer and essay questions. Bring a blue or green book: sociology: study of companions, group life and those aspects of individual life that are affected by group interaction. Social structure is an organized social relationships that connect people to one another and to systems. It gives social life its familiar and predictable shape: social fact: external constraints imposed by societal matters. Social facts endure over time and shape individual"s actions. Social is concerned with the quality of the interaction, interrelationship, mutuality. It is a relationship between concepts based on reasoned thinking: hypothesis: researchable position that specifies the relationship between two or more variables. Independent variable: a variable that is impacting another dependent variable: dependent variable: the outcome the researcher is trying to explain. This can provide protection from suicide: anomie: one type of suicide that results from lack of regulation and consequent suffering (opposite of fatalistic suicide).
