Glossary
Sociology Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential sociology professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key sociology professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in sociology professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Census
- Population count.
- Correlation
- Relationship between variables.
- Institution
- Established social structure.
- IRB
- Research ethics board.
- Norm
- Shared expectation.
- Peer review
- Expert review.
- Qualitative research
- Non-numeric study.
- Sample
- Group studied.
- Moving between classes.
- Learning social norms.
- Sociological imagination
- Linking personal and social.
- Stratification
- Social ranking.
- Survey research
- Questionnaire studies.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Sociology Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Sociology Professor training.
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