Sociology Vocabulary Review

What is using sociology to solve social problems?

What is the scientific study of human behavior in groups?

A group of people who share a culture and territory

The degree to which people feel a part of social groups(Durkheim)

Examination of large-scale patterns of society

Describe what is in the social world without evaluating it; based on facts, not opinion

Research whose purpose it to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups

Society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources(Marx)

The application of the scientific approach to the social world(Comte)

Examination of small-scale patterns of society