SOC 1004 Final Exam Review Exam 1 Material Important Concepts • Sociology: the scientific study of social interaction and social organization. • Social structure: the interweaving of people’s interactions and relationships in more or less recurrent and stable patterns. • Social relationship: stable, recurrent pattern of interaction. • Interaction: mutual influence through exchange or communication. • Concept: an idea or mental picture of a group or class of objects formed by combining all their aspects. • Variable: a concept that can take on different values; the term that scientists apply to something they think influences (or is influenced by) something else. • Hypothesis: a proposition that can be tested to determine its validity. • Correlation: a change in one variable associated with a change in another variable. • Independent variable: the variable that causes an effect in an experimental setting. • Dependent variable: the variable that is affected in an experimental setting. • S...