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| How you distribute goods and services |
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| A tool sociology interprets |
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| Fixing broken relationships |
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| A discipline/language given to systematically understanding society |
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| A population organized to carry out the major functions of life |
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| Worldview: a way of interpreting how things happen |
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The ability to connect one individual's biography with the larger sociological history of his lifetime.
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Unmasking, trying to figure out what's going on behind the scenes
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Looking beyond the official life of the society
Peter Berger |
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Imagining the world as different than it is
Peter Berger |
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| What counts as knowledge w/in the discipline |
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| Shift in thinking about thinking |
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| Bigger than you, don't exist just in your head |
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| There are costs when you resist them |
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| Waiting out the end of the data to see what kind of patterns occur |
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| Starts with a couple of ideas and tests those ideas against the data/research |
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| Not manipulated variable and changes based on the independent |
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| Ideographic Level of Analysis |
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| Tries to explain/understand a particular social phenomena--specializing |
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| Nomothetic Level of Analysis |
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| Searching for ways to describe general phenomena--generalizing |
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| "A causes B" A has to come first |
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| "A causes B" A needs to consistently cause B |
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| The situation where one variable actually explains the dynamic you saw between two other variables |
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| Finding what you want to find |
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| Over-simplifying whatever problem you are explaining |
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| Measuring what you think you're measuring |
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| Results are common, reached by others |
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| Inventing an idea or explanation and forming it mentally |
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| Figuring out what you're going to count, defining variables in to observable factors |
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| Social Construction of Reality |
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| What you see/know is influenced by your position in life, education you've had, and social expectations |
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| Things that most simply just happen to you |
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| Discovery of fact/new piece of knowledge about the worl |
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| When the fact that's been discovered takes on a life of its own |
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| You begin to accept the fact and it changes your behavior |
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| The process by which an infant learns to get along in society, knowing what traits are desirable |
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| W/in the context of family, or other institutions w/in the family |
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| Influence that takes place outside initial influences (School, t.v., teams, clubs, jobs) |
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| The set of traits, values, and roles you fulfill that set you apart from other people |
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| Named position w/in a group |
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| Expectations of a status within society |
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| Network of roles that interacts with some frequency |
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| Group of persons linked by kinship, the adults of which care for children |
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| Connection through marriage or a line of decent |
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| Socially recognized, sexual union |
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| Family that you come from |
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| Family established by you |
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| Love takes over mate selection |
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| Metaphor to talk about the way our society now continues to help you find a spouse |
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| "Looks about like you" in socio-economic terms (in relation to marriage) |
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| The Idea that both partners in a relationship need to feel like they're getting something comparable to what they bring to the relationship |
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| It's a relationship of access, you have exclusive access to it |
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| Parents and family have claim on this property |
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| You have the right of access to your spouse's body and they to yours |
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| All of your "stuff" is yours |
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| A set of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is, things set apart and forbidden, that unite believers into a single moral community called a church. (Durkheim) |
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| Create a definition in a vacuum. (Durkheim) |
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| Trying to come up with the core elements of all religions. (Durkheim) |
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| Rituals which all religions have. Durkheim) |
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| Separate religion from just a vague belief in the supernatural or witchcraft. (Durkheim) |
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| Set apart and forbidden. (Durkheim) |
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| Dimension important to sociological definition of religion |
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| Everything is part of one energy/focus/being |
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| The supernatural can embody itself int he natural world, but there is a distinction between the two |
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| The gods are separate from the natural world but are generally responsible for our existence |
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| Emergence of a set of practices and beliefs, very spiritual, but no specific concept of the divine |
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| Secular religion: Rituals without theism |
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| A novel religious group, doesn't trace origin back to pre-existing group |
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| The idea that more and more aspects of your life are coming out from under religious control |
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| Proclamation of a renewed authority for a religious tradition |
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| Compulsory political association with continuous organization whose administrative staff successfully claims the monopoly of violence in the enforcement of its orders |
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| Compulsory Political Association |
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| There is no where on earth that you can be born without being claimed by some state |
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| Historically lots of institutions could use force to make you do what they wanted you to do, in the modern world, only the state can do this |
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| Within its territory, the state is the highest authority |
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| Feeling of belonging to the state that we get |
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| People are not subjects, they have rights and duties |
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| Rights of individuals before the law |
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| Idea that everybody in society should have a minimum standard of living guaranteed by the society/government |
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| Ability to realize your will over the will of others |
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| Model of power, key aspect is that power is narrowly distributed so only a few people have power |
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| Power is actually very widely distributed so lots of people have power |
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| How goods and services are produced and distributed |
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| Wealth is private property, it can belong to individuals, its owner is allowed to use it as they see fit, and they are allowed to profit it |
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| No private ownership, everything owned by the workers and used for their collective good. (Marx) |
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| Organization designed to promote or prevent change |
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| Primarily about Political rights, right to run for office or vote... |
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| Direct action, want to challenge the system itself |
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| Wanting to be in a social group and wanting to be independent from a social group. (Durkheim) |
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| The capacity for collective action |
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| Characteristic of really simple societies |
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| Characteristic of really complex sociteies |
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| Committed by people who were not very well integrated into society |
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| Committed by people who were too integrated into society |
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| Thing that separates us most from other species |
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| The study of things that other people groups do |
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| Observable, measurable behavior |
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| Everyone takes part in exchange and everyone is happy with the trade |
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| Causes you to engage in a behavior again |
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| Looking for patterns about how we should behave |
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| Will encourage engaging in behavior even if the costs are higher |
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Action equals probability times value:
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| If you've been deprived of the award you wanted, you're more likely to engage in a behavior that will get you that reward |
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| We always think in terms of rewards, so we turn anything into a reward, even if it's not the reward we originally wanted |
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| Socially approved way of doing something |
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| Beliefs you have about the way the world should be |
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| People group that owns more than they need |
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| People group that owns less that they need |
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| We use the language of right and wrong to describe our actions |
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| Our ability to change our behavior to match up to right or wrong |
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| The rational they will use to get you to do what they want you to do |
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| And action that matches up to a moral order |
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| There is no right and wrong |
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| Recognizes that if you want to understand what someone understands, recognize that they are acting within some moral order |
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| Have narratives about how things work |
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| Small or huge that try to make sense of an action |
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| Big stories that apply to lots of people if not everybody and try to make sense of lots of different behaviors |
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