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Intro to Sociology
Chapter 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/12/2013

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Describe Sociology
Definition
The study of human society
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What is Social Imagination?
Definition
Questioning things that seem normal.
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Describe Social institutions
Definition
structures that socialize groups within them.
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Describe Social Identity
Definition
The way individuals define themselves in relation to groups they are a part of.
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Describe the relevance of Auguste Comte
Definition
Society is better understood by looking at laws governing human behavior.
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Describe Karl Marx
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Identifies class conflicts as primary cause of social change
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Describe Max Weber
Definition
emphasis on relating to other people's opinions.
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Describe Emile Durkheim
Definition
developed positivist sociology. Believes that divison of labor helps determine social cohesiveness.
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Georg Simmel
Definition
Formal Sociology. Pure numbers. A group of two is different than a group of three.
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What did Cooley, Mead, and W.E.B. use for an approach?
Definition
behaviors and personalities are shaped.
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Describe functionalism
Definition
Society is system of interrelated parts
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Describe Conflict Theory
Definition
conflict necessary.
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Describe feminist theory
Definition
how the social world is ordered around gender.
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Describe Symbolic Interactionism
Definition
How people interact with others in their everyday lives.
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Describe Verstehen
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One of Weber's concepts. Belief that we have to see from the perspective of others.
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