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- Aka the social imagination
- The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger groups
- How groups influence ppl., especially how ppl. are influenced by their society.
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| Ppl. who share a culture and a territory |
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- Jobs, income, education, gender, age, race
- group memberships that ppl. have b/c of their location in history and society
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- Came up w/ sociological imagination
- Said their was a connection between history and biography
- History- location in broad stream of events
- Biography- Individual's Specific Experiences
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- explain and predict events in natural environment
- biology, geology, chemistry, physics
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- examine human relationships
- anthropology, economics, political science, physchology, sociology
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- Explain why something happens
- Make generalizations
- Predict what will happen
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- "new" science - emerged mid 1800s
- Grew out of social upheavel - industrial revolution
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- French
- Father of sociology
- came up w/ positivism: which is the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation
- problems of order and change
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- English
- 2nd founder of sociology
- opposed social reform: change and unrest were natural occurences
- Coined term "survial of the fittest"
- Social Darwinism
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| German
Engine of human history is class conflict
Didn't consider himself a sociologist
Bourgeoisie vs. Proletarist |
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| Karl Marx's theory of class conflict |
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| Human misery lay in class conflict, the exploration of workers by those who own the means of production. Social change was inevitable. |
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- French
- Showed how social forces affect behavior
- study on suicide
- Social intergation
- proved stuff w/ statistics
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| Emile's Durkheims' theory on suicide |
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| People are more likely to commit suicide if their ties to others in their communities are weak . The more involves you are in the society the less you are like to commit suicide. |
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| German, Religion
Religion and the origins of capitalism
protestant ethic
Verstenhen - empathy |
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| Max Weber's theory on religion |
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- Roman Catholics were encouraged to follow traditonalways of life and believe they were on the road to heaven.
- Protestants embrace change, undermined ppl's social security, and didnt' believe they were on the road to heaven just b/c they were church members
- Found that capatilism was more likely to flourish in protestant cuntries.
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| Values in Sociological Perspective |
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- Sociology should be value free and objective
- research should involve replication
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| Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology |
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| Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism |
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| Henry Blumer's assumptionas central to Symbolic Interactionism |
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- We learn the meaning of a symbol based upon how ppl. react to it ex) burp
- Once we learn the meaning of a symbol we base our behavior on them
- We use the meaning of the symbol to imagine how others will respond to our behavior
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| Difference between Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills |
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- Mills supported social reform
- Parsons supported social theory
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| all of the theoretical perspectives |
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| When studying human behavior, you must use .... |
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- Indentify the problem
- Review the literature
- Formulate the hypothesis
- Develop a research design survey or class study
- Collect data
- Analyze data
- State findings & conclusion
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