that control ion channel function: activation, which controls the rate and. voltage dependence of the permeability increase following depolarization, and. inactivation, which controls the rate and voltage dependence of the subsequent. return of the ion permeability to the resting level during a maintained depoÂ­.
Key Sociological Terms. Some of the key terms and ideas that are fundamental to the field of sociology; a selection of terms curated from our site glossary. 1  Acculturation. 2  Agency. 3  Alienation. 4  Anomie. 5  Backstage and Frontstage.6  Base and Superstructure. 7  Capital. 8  Capitalism.ome of the key terms and ideas that are fundamental to the field of sociology; a selection of terms curated from our site glossary. 1  Acculturation. 2  Agency. 3  Alienation. 4  Anomie. 5  Backstage and Frontstage. 6  Base and Superstructure.
A commonly accepted definition of sociology as a special science is that it is the study of social aggregates and groups in their institutional organization, of institutions and their organization, and of the causes and consequences of changes in institutions and social organization.ociology, for Durkheim, was the study of âsocial facts,â and it should not be forgotten that his first major work after completing his French and Latin theses was The Rules of Sociological Method [1895; for a discussion of Durkheimâs conception of social facts, see the biography of Durkheim].