SOC 001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Likey, Ascribed Status, Intercultural Competence
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Concept: is a label that is applied to things with similar characteristics or attributes: ex: when you look outside and see apartment buildings, trees, street lamps, etc, things that are not easily pictured: love, intelligence, speed, racism. They are real in the sense that they exist and have tangible (empirical) effects in life (that is, they can make a difference in what happens to people), even though none can actually be observed. Constructs: word used to describe things that exist analytically but not directly observable. The rst step in doing scienti c research involves picking the concepts or constructs that interest us, we call these concepts variables: 2 characteristics: thing. A variable is something that is thought to in uence or to be in uenced by another. The idea of variation or difference: a variable is a thing that has varying attributes: attributes: a characteristic or a quality that describes a thing. (ex: attribute of gender= male and female)
