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| Wright Mills says "troubles" are... |
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| privately felt problems that spring from events or feelings in a persons life |
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| Wright mills says "issues" are... |
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| things that affect large number of people and have their origins in institutional arrangements and history of society. |
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Says people in society are glued together by beleif systems
Functionalism originated with Durkeim
Major contribution: Discovered the social basis of human behaviour |
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| thought the economic organization of society was the most important influence on what humans think and how they behave |
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| Sociologists in the chicago school were.. |
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| interested in how society shaped the mind and identity of people |
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1. Society is like a war.
2. Groups have competing social interests, no concensus about social values.
3. Social order is maintained by exercise of power
4. Asks how something detracts from common interests of society. |
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| Implications of Conflict Theory |
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1. Gives great attention to race, class, gender.
2. Emphasizes social control
3. Sees inequality as unfair and unchangeable. |
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1. Society is constituted from the performances that happen during small group interactions.
2. Gives primacy to what people believe (meaning), not just whats objectivly true.
3. Focuses on face to face interactions. |
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1. Based on the idea that society is not an objective thing.
2. See contemporary life as involving multiple experiences and interpretations but avoid categorizing human experience into broad and abstract concepts such as institutions or society. |
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| Assesses the effect of policies and programs on people in society |
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| a form of Evaluation research, if the research is intended to produce policy reccomendations then it is called this |
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| way of measuring by examining the cultural artifacts of what people write, say see and hear |
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1. Theorized that society had three dimensions: political, economic and cultural
2. To understand social behavior you must understand meaning that a behaviour has for social actors. Put yourself in their shoes (Verstehen) |
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| 1. coined the term sociology |
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| Degree to which it accuratly measures or reflects concept |
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1. Emphasis on social stability is inherently conservative.
2. Understates the roles of power and conflict in society |
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| Ability to draw conclusions from specific data and apply them to a broader population. |
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| When you use this you create a specific research question about a focused point that is based on a more general or universal principle |
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| arrives at general conclusions from specific examples |
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strict norms that control moral and ethical behaviour.
ex.legal and religious injunctions |
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| Diffusion of a single culture throughout the world |
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| According to FUNCTIONALISM culture... |
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1. Integrates people into groups
2. Provides coherence and stability in society
3. Creates norms and values that integrate people in society |
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| According to CONFLICT THEORY culture... |
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1. Serves the interests of powerful groups
2. Can be a source of political resistance
3. Is increasingly connected by economic monopolies |
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| According to SYMBOLIC INTERACTION culture... |
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1. Creates group identity from diverse cultural meanings
2. Changes as people produce new cultural meanings
3. Is socially constructed through the activities of social groups |
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| According to NEW CULTURAL STUDIES culture... |
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1. Is ephemeral, unpredictable and constantly changing
2.Is a material manifestation of a consumer-oriented society
3. Is best understood by analyzing its artifacts- books, films, television images |
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| subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture |
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| pervasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society |
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| PSYCHOANALYTIC theory of socialization |
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1. The unconscious mind shapes our behavior
2. The self (ego) emerges from tension between id and superego
3. Societal expectations are represented by the superego |
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| SOCIAL LEARNING theory of socialization |
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1. People respond to social stimuli in their environment
2. Identity is created through the interaction of mental and social worlds
3. Young Children learn the principles that shape the external world |
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| FUNCTIONALISM theory of socialization |
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1. People internalize the role expecations that are present in society
2. Internalizing the values of society reinforces social consensus
3. Society relies upon conformity to maintain stability and social equilibrium |
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| CONFLICT Theory of socialization |
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1. Individual and group aspirations that are shaped by the oppurtunities available to different groups
2.Group consciousness is formed in the context of a system of inequality
3. Social control agents exert pressure to conform |
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| SYMBOLIC INTERACTION THEORY of socialization |
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1. Children learn through taking the role of significant others
2. Identity emerges as the creative self interacts with the social expectations of others
3. Expectations of others form the social context for learning social roles. |
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Preconventional- children judge right and wrong in simple terms of obedience and punishment
Conventional Stage- people develop moral judgement in terms of cultural norms, particularly social acceptance and following authority
postconventional stage- people are able to consider abstract ethical questions, thereby showing maturity in moral reasoning |
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| Development of looking glass self emerges from... |
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1. how we think we appear to others
2.how we think others judge us
3. how the first two make us feel
in seeing ourselves as others do we respond to the expectations others have of us |
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