SOCL 100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
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Sociology: the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society the study of social problems. Sociological imagination: the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society. Structural functionalism: a sociological theory that attempts to explain why society functions the way it does by focusing on the relationships between the various social institutions that make up society (e. g. , government, law, education, religion,etc). Symbolic interactionism: a sociological perspective that is influential in many areas of the sociological discipline. It is particularly important in microsociology and social psychology. Symbolic interactionism is derived from american pragmatism and particularly from the work of george herbert. Operationalization: in research design, especially in psychology, social sciences, life sciences, and physics, operationalization is a process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon that is not directly measurable, though its existence is indicated by other phenomena.
