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| The Scientific Study of Society |
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| Sociology is a large social grouping that shares... (3) |
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A) the same geographical territory
B) the same political authority
C) dominant cultural expectations |
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Any Academic Discipline that
uses the Scientific Method to study humans in
some form |
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| Any Academic discipline that uses Scientific method to study physical features of the earth or universe |
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| University must consist of four major divisions... |
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1.Social Science
2.Natural Science
3.Humanities
4. Vocational/technical |
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| The Sociological Imagination (def) |
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| the Ability to See the Relationship Between Individual Experiences and the Larger Society |
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| The Sociological Imagination (person) |
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| T/F: less than half of all undergrads at 4-yr colleges have credit cards |
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| FALSE. about 73% have one |
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| T/F: average debt on undergrad's credit card is more than $2000 |
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| T/F: In USA, it's illegal to offer free merchandise to promote credit cards |
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| T/F: some consumer activist groups want Congress to require people under 21 to prove they can handle credit card |
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| T/F: More than 1 million people in the US file bankruptcy a year |
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| T/F: Banks and credit card companies lose less than$500,000 a year on debt |
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| T/F: Everyone in US's debt added together is over $555 billion |
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| T/F: more than 100,000 people under age 25 file personal bankruptcy a year |
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| T/F: the sociology of consumption focuses primarily on how individuals determine what to buy/ what to spend |
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| FALSE. more about society as a whole, including how consumption affects identity |
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| T/F: overspending most common in higher-income areas |
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| FALSE. lower and middle income brackets bad too |
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“the Age of Reason-” belief in human progress-the “intellectual
revolution |
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| shift from agriculture to manufacturing |
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population shift from rural to urban,
from producers to consumers |
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| Emphasized Social order and Stability (4) |
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| -Comte, Martineau, Spencer, Durkheim |
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| Emphasized conflict and social change: (2) |
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| Positivism/Father of Sociology/Coined Term |
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| Translator of Comte; Analysis of Consequences of Industrialization/Capitalism |
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| Social Darwinism-Survival of the Fittest |
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| Social Facts/Suicide Research/Father of Modern Sociology |
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| Class Conflict and Alienation/Economic Determinist/ Key Works: The Communist Manifesto 1848) and Das Kapital-1867 |
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| Work Ethic; Value Free Sociology/Verstehen Work: The Protestant Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism |
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| first department of sociology in the U.S. |
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| asserted that urbanization had a disintegrating influence on social life. |
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| “Father of American Sociology,” Founder of the ASA; lst president |
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| -Social Darwinist; Coined terms: Folkways/Mores |
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| founded symbolic Interactionist perspective. |
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| founded methodological approach used by sociologists for years |
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| 1868-1963-noted that dual heritage creates conflict for people of color - double consciousness-The Philadelphia Negro |
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| Structural Functionalist Perspective |
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| all societies must meet social needs in order to survive. Assumes that society is a stable, orderly system. |
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| Groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources. |
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| Who formed concept of the power elite? |
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| Assumes that gender is socially created and that change is essential for people to achieve their human potential without limits based on gender. |
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| Symbolic Interactionist Perspective |
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| Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups. People communicate through the use of symbols and symbolic gestures. |
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| Earlier theoretical perspectives are (succesful or unsuccessful) in explaining social life in contemporary societies. |
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| unsuccessful. emerged after WWII |
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| Three Major Views of Society |
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| Functionalist perspective, Conflict perspective, and Interactionist perspective |
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