The scientific study of society, focusing on social inequality, major institutions, and 2. the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community in which 3. the 4. a group of people who share a culture, a set of institutions, a territory, and a 5. the social change, is a discipline known as society provides little moral guidance is known as common identity is known as a(n) that is learned and developed through interacting with others and a collective allows us to grasp the connection between biography and history perspective understands society as a pattern of social behavior understanding of social roles and shared meaning. 6. the perspective understands society as an oppressive and exploitative system designed in the interests of the powerful and privileged. 7. the perspective understands society as a system of specialized institutions designed to work together toward the common welfare of society 8. true or false? a community is nothing more than the sum of its individual 9. true or false? while human social organization is very social in nature, it is not 10. true or false? our personal choices are always influenced in some way by social 11. using objective, systematic research to evaluate theoretical understandings of the 12. an abstract understanding about how the social world works in general and how members: considered eusocial like the social organization of an ant colony: forces such as technology, government policy, or the culture we grow up in: social world is known as the its parts fit together, from which we derive scientific research questions, is known as 13. a is a testable claim or expectation about the social world and how two variables or factors might be related, which can be supported or refuted by 14 15 16 17·the research method that asks a standardized set of questions to a large sample of social science research. systematic and does not satisfy the standards of science. systematic study of social phenomena. objective measurements for use as variables in social science research evidence is superficial and circumstantial evidence that is not evidence is that which is based on direct observation and objective, refers to how abstract, theoretical constructs are converted into people is known as a