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The science of the social
i.e. group behavior |
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| a way to study human behavior by placing it within its social context |
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| example of sociological perspective |
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| sociologists study groups and events |
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| term by sociologists to refer to a group of people who share a culture and territory |
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| peoples group memberships because of their location in history and society |
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HOW WE DO SOCIETY?
How we do it?? |
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Establish how have others answered similar research questions and offer an alternative
Make generalizations
Make predictions |
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| Vaughans Research question? |
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| Why did the challenger space shuttle get launched? |
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| What was NASA's answer why the challenger get launched? |
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| We were never been properly funded so we cut corners. |
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| Managerial wrong-doing poorly calculated risk |
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| NASA had rules to circumvent rules, ofter related to safety. |
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| NASA had rules to circumvent rules, ofter related to safety. |
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| What had been incrementally normalized in NASA |
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| What is Vaughans generalization |
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| Deviance can be incrementally normalized in organizations |
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| Applications of Deviance? |
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ENRON
Columbia explosion from NASA
Abu Ghraib prisoners torture. |
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| Predicts a fatal space shuttle flight in the near future unless NASA seriously reflects on their mode of operations. |
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| Predicts a fatal space shuttle flight in the near future unless NASA seriously reflects on their mode of operations. |
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| Where does the data come from? |
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Surveys
Interviews
Participant Ovservation
Content Analysis |
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| Comparative Historical Research |
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| primary and secondary documents are analyzed to compare organizations, nations, states |
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| looks at performance of policies and programs |
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| looks at performance of policies and programs |
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| Why was there no hard data 20 years ago for how many homeless people in America? |
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| Federal government estimated how many Americans are homeless? |
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| 3 to 7 milltion americans are homeless |
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| Why couldn't we find the exact amount of homeless people? |
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No vested interest.
No registry available.
To count we must define. |
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| How many homeless in Chicago? |
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| Are research questions really value free? |
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| Is research methodology really value free? |
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| Extent to which definition measures what was intended |
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| extent to which data produce consistent results. |
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| Episcopal priests turned sociologist |
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| two men having sex in a public bathroom |
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| Did Humphrey identify himself as a researcher when interviewing these men? |
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| No, he lost his professorship at Washington University. |
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| Symbolic interactionism 2 core claims? |
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Symobls: society is composed of symbols people use to establish meaning during interaction
Symbols: are not real people; only real in their consequences.
i.e ADHD |
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| language determines other aspects of culture because language provides categories which society is defined |
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| Example of Sapir-whorf hypothesis? |
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| Colored snow of the Inuit Eskimos reality |
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Language reflects________
Culture reflects _________ |
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| Tailor actions to the situation |
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| Example of behavior implications of the situation. |
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| Being called a slut and actually living up to being one after being called it for a known amount of time |
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| Why is everyday like a theater? |
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Scripts
Costumes
Life on stage |
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| Functional Theory 3 core claims? |
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Society is viewed as parts each contributes to equilibrium.
Each function is related to the whole
Individuals work together and only together. |
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| More functions were done by family |
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| individuals specialize in a function and then depend on strangers for other functions |
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| Society is composed of groups competing for source resource |
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| workers vastly outnumber owners could revolt |
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Ideological problem,
false consciousness, social class relations reflect differences that are real between classes. |
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| Paradigms three dominant theories |
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Symbolic Interactionism
Functional Theory
Conflict Theory |
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| the idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears. |
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| Positive and Negative outcome of Culture relativism |
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Pos: makes other cultures understandable
Neg: Moral relativism
i.e footbinding |
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| a tendency to use our own groups ways of doing things as a yard stick for judging others. |
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| Positive and Negative of Ethnocentrism |
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Pos: creates in group military
Neg: leads to an unnatural attachment to personal cultural beliefs. |
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| the quickened process of learning new norms, values,attitudes, and behaviors. |
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| Where does resocialization take place? |
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Total institution
Ex. Boot camp
Cut off from the rest of society |
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| socially destroy old identity kit and replaces with new identity kit. |
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| items which we decorate ourselves like hairstyles, clothing, identity. |
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| the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a selfidentity for survival in society. |
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| modest learning of cultural elements for the purposes of existing in a small group. |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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if expectation to take on a new role, we may derive it.
ex. clothes school gangs. |
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| the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire |
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| Why are we shaped by social institutions? |
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| Great variations in the institutions help shape us. |
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| Do children appropriate society? Why? |
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| No, children interpret the world around us and reproduce as they interpret it. |
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| Interpretive reproduction |
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| the world around us and only reproduce as we interpret it |
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| Is any behavior natural or are we trained in society? |
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Absence of restrictive structure genetics will play out
In the presence of restrictive structure, genetics will be trumped by social structure. |
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| Is any behavior natural or are we trained in society Biologists and Sociologists answers? |
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Bio:genetics advantage.
Soc:Social promiscuity, genetics play out depends on your place in a stratified society. |
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| surpassing what is common or usual |
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Greeting cards
College orientations |
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| What are we looking for in specialness? |
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| Our Life, Self, individuality |
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| What is the new conformity |
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| lack of stability or place in social structure. |
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Customization, itunes
Manifestation :"facebook,twitter" |
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| Why isnt there anything original anymore? |
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| Satisfaction with reproductions, too cushioned, lack of hard work, |
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| a behavior, belief or condition that violates a societys norm. |
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| Labeling Theory, what is it? |
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| Once labeled with an identity you become what you are labeled. |
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your inner core of values and beliefs
"consicence" |
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| The social circumstances surrounding point in time " social pressure" |
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| lawmakers and political elite shape laws to support and create a ciminal justice system which protects their power and privilege |
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| Parts of Functional Theory |
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Societies with little deviance redefine non deviant behaviors as deviant
Societies with lots of deviance redefine deviant as non deviant |
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| DEviance changes over time two scenarios |
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Public punsihment
Capture and imprisonment |
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