The scholarly discipline concerned with the systematic study of social organizations

The assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors

Believing in ideas that are not in their objective interests but rather in the best interest of the capitalist class

Recognizing one's own class interests, the forms that class oppression take, and understanding who ones oppressors are. (Marx saw such consciousness an essential ingredient in bringing about a revolt against the system by the oppressed.)

The term coined by Durkheim that referred to (e.g., traditions, values, and laws) and allow for sociological explanations (rather than biological or psychological reasoning).

Knowledge based on systematic observation, experiments, and comparison

A term originated by Max Weber describing the expressive qualities of individual leaders

The process by which individuals shape social life by adapting to, negotiating with, and changing social structures

The attempt by scientists to be absolutely free of bias in their research

A representative part of a population

An attitude, behavior, or condition that can vary in magnitude from case to case

A group of subjects in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable but are similar in all other respects to the group exposed to the independent variable

A group of subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable, in contrast to the members of the control group, who are not

A variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable (the independent variable)

A variable that affects another variable (the dependent variable)