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| The 5 major sociological institutions |
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Government
Religion
Education
Economics
Family |
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| The 3 sociological frameworks (sociological theories) |
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Social conflict
Structural - functional
Symbolic interaction |
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| Regarding the origins of sociology what are the 3 stages of science? |
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Scientific
metaphysical
theological |
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| The systematic study of human society |
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| scientific discipline that focuses on patterns of behavior. |
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| The sociological perspective of Peter Berger |
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Seeing the GENERAL in the PARTICULAR
Seeing the STRANGE in the FAMILIAR |
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| Emile Durhiem's studies and findings? |
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Male protestants who were wealthy were more likely to commit suicide then poor, married jews and catholics. Social integration is the cause.
He also helped establish sociology as a university discipline. |
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| C. Wright Mills' Sociological Imagination |
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The power of the sociological perspective lies not just in the changing individual lives but in transforming society.
Society, not peoples personal failings is the cause of social problems.
The sociological imagination transforms personal problems into public issues. |
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| A statement of how and why facts are related. |
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A set of fundamental assumptions that guide thinking. 3 major approaches
structural - functional
social conflict
symbolic interaction |
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| Importance of social integration during times of rapid change |
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| Compared society to the human body, organic approach. |
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| Sought to identify tasks that every society must perform. |
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Manifests functions are recognized and intended consequences.
latent functions are unrecognized and unintended consequences
social dysfunctions are undesirable consequences. |
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| Structural - functional basics? |
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| views society as a complex system who's parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. |
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| Social conflict subgroups and basics? |
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race conflict
sex conflict
Views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and social change. |
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| The importance of social class in inequality and social conflict |
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| Race as the major problem facing the united states in the twentieth century. |
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| Symbolic interaction basics |
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| Product of everyday interactions of individuals. |
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| Understanding a setting from the people in it. |
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| How we build personalities form social experience. |
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| George Homans & Peter Blau |
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| 3 frameworks for sociological investigation? |
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Scientific Sociology
Interpretive Sociology
Critical Sociology |
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| Basis for Scientific Sociology? |
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| Empirical evidence - Information we can verify with our senses. |
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| Basis for interpretive sociology? |
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| The study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their world. |
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| Basis for critical sociology? |
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| The study of society that focuses on the need for change |
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| An apparent, though false, relationship between 2 or more variables caused by some other variable. |
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| A mental construct that represents some part of the world in a simplified form. |
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| concepts who's variables change from case to case. |
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| a procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case. |
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| Operationalizing a variable |
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| specifying exactly what it is to be measured before assigning a value to a variable. |
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| Consistency in a measurement. |
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| Precision in measuring exactly what one intends to measure. |
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| A state of personal neutrality in conducting research |
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| Weber says sociologists should strive to be dispassionate and detached. |
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| Repetition of research by other investigators. |
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| Approaching a topic from a male-only perspective. |
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| Approaching a topic from a female-only perspective. |
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| Using data collected from one sex and applying the findings to both sexes. |
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| Using different standards to judge males and females! |
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| This occurs when a subject under study reacts to the sex of the researcher and thereby interferes with the research operation. |
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| A change in a subject's behavior caused by the awareness of being studied. |
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| Reasoning that transforms specific observations into general theory |
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| Reasoning that transforms general theory into specific hypotheses suitable for testing. |
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| The values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a people's way of life. |
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| Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's surroundings. |
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| A biased "culture yardstick" |
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| More accurate understanding |
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| The process by which one generation passes culture to the next. |
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| A condition where society provides little moral guidance to individuals. |
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| People perceive the world through the culture lens of language |
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| Culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, and beauty, which serve as broad guidelines for social living. |
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| Specific statements that people hold to be true. |
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| Robin Williams' is known for |
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| 10 wide values that are central to our American way of life. |
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| Rules and expectation by which society guides the behavior of its members. |
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| Shoulds, prescribed like meds |
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| Norms for routine and casual interactions. |
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| Widely observed and have great moral significance. |
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The way things should be
social patterns mandated by values and norms |
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The way things actually occur in everyday life.
social patterns that only approximate cultural expectations. |
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| 3 ways in which culture changes? |
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Invention
Discovery
Diffusion |
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| The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture. |
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| The practice of judging a culture by its own standards. |
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| Ignores cultural diversity and downplays importance of change. |
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| A theoretical paradigm that explores ways in human biology affects how we create culture. |
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| People who own and operate their own business. |
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| People who sell their productive labor for wages. |
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