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| study of society and how social contexts affect people's lives |
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| sociological perspective/sociological imagination |
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| looking into new societies and looking at our own with new eyes |
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applied: used in field to help others solve problems
pure: theoretical, research |
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| symbolic interactionalism |
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| microscopic. study of how people use symbols (titles, words, gestures, etc) to develop their views of the world and to communicate with each other |
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| macroscopic. study of how parts of society fit together to make whole and what each part does to contribute to society; if one part does not fulfill its function, society suffers |
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society is made of smaller groups that compete for scare resources
(Karl Marx) |
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micro - small parts of society, ie. individuals
macro - large parts of society, ie. race, religion, etc. |
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| 1. select topic, 2. define thesis, 3. review literature, 4. formulate hypothesis (w/operational definitions), 5. choose research method, 6. collect data, 7. analyze results, 8. share the results. |
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| individuals from target population |
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| analyzing data others have collected |
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| something to which a society has given meaning |
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| something banned from society, has severe sanctions if broken - ie. cannibalism, incest |
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| 1) invention, 2) discovery, 3) diffusion |
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| 1) anticipate others' reactions, 2) imagine how we appear to others, 3) growth & maintenance of self |
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| strip of identity, regulated activities, degradation, isolation, authority's rational plan to meet goals |
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| language, basic norms and values |
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| refinement of primary: norms and values of more specific culture or setting |
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| anticipatory socialization |
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| gets you ready for future role |
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| learning attitudes, values, norms; internalizing culture you are a part of |
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| position in society, neither positive or negative |
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| conflict between MULTIPLE ROLES in SINGLE STATUS |
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| conflict BETWEEN ROLES in MULTIPLE STATUSES |
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| looking at social behaviour like a play - onstage/offstage/in spotlight |
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| symbolic interactionalism. situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences. |
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| groups you look up to; role models; standard of something you want to be like |
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| enforced conformity, isolated from opposing opinions, strong leaders, invulnerability ("we're always right"), discount warnings, stereotype outsiders (challenger, nazi germany, cults) |
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| clear levels of authority, division of labor, written rules and procedures, communication/big paper trail, replaceability |
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| rationalization of society |
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| business-like model for all institutions in society |
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| mcdonaldization of society |
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| everything is standardized, accessible/global, predictable, and cost-effective for company |
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| interested in setting goals, getting things done, meeting goals |
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| interested in people, morale, motivation |
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| small = more intimate, less stable (dyad, triad) ; bigger = more stable, less intimate = responsibility diffuses, work goes down |
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| accepting norms & values of groups you spend time with |
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