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| Mills, connecting personal troubles with public issues |
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| individuals collectively create, sustain, and change the social forms in which we conduct our lives |
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| human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors |
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| Emile Durkheim, complex equilibrium whose various elements limit one another; this balance cannot be disrupted without producing unhappiness or illness. Sociology ought to be a positivist science, seeking out 'social facts' that are external to us, coercive of us, and measurable. |
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| society rests upon a set of common collective sentiments, on a collective conscious |
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| functional interdependence, compromised rudimentary division of labor |
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| a strongly defined moral consensus |
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| Sociology is a science which attempts the "interpretive understanding' of social action in order thereby to arrive at a CASUAL EXPLANATION of its course and its effects; interpretive sociology: verstehen, to interpret and understand the social world through experience (like anthropology) |
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| the most general/outline of a social actionP |
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| Charles Cooley, how you understand yourself is how you think others see you |
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| George herbert Mead, Preparatory stage (2-3 years), realize where you are as opposed to the other; play stage (4-7), role playing games; game stage (8+) realizing roles are connected with one another |
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| Freud, raw, base level desires and instincts (kid) |
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| interacts with society (balances id and superego) |
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| morals, principles, what is right? (superhero) |
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| The Stranger by Georg Simmel |
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| the stranger should be welcomed to the group; provides perspective; was a Jew in Germany |
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| W.E.B. DuBois, Gift of Second Sight |
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| consciousness connected to black culture, at the same time consciousness of white society |
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| Erving Goffman, on the Self (Dramaturgy?) |
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| the self is a performed character, not organic, has specific location, fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; self is a product of a scene/performance |
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| Karl Marx on Stratification |
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| Bourgeois and proletariat=unfair. |
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| Durkeim on Stratification |
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| beneficial, serves a function because it's in every society, poor do the jobs no one else wants to do, rich people are specialists, more money is more incentive |
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| Used to be one drop of white blood made you white. Then in 1910 it switched to one drop of black blood made you black. |
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| Stokely Carmichael, the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their color, culture, or ethnic origin. |
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| direct/indirect movement of race |
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| society uses social institutions to deny access to full benefits |
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| ethnic and racial variation is permitted or encouraged |
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| mixing of different ethnicities, marriage cohabitation, sexual relations |
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| Asians becoming white and WHAT THAT MEANS |
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| public ownership of the means of production and distribution, planned and democratic |
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| private ownership of the means of production and distribution |
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| interlocking directorates |
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| links between corporations via board of directors |
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| corporate leaders are connected by an expansive network that makes their companies receptive to ideas/practices by others in the network |
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| CJ Wright Mills, corporate rich, executive branch, military |
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| What did Eisenhower predict? |
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| dangers of Military Industrial Complex |
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| bestowal of grants and/or tax breaks on corporations or other "special treatment" from the gov't |
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| illegal goods, drug trade |
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| Education is the great... |
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| Manifest functions of education |
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| latent functions of education |
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| get kids off streets, daycare, sense of entitlement, classism, passive society, competition, authority, assimilation |
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| the idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general |
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| the theory that various social institutions and processes in society exist to serve some important or necessary function to keep society running |
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| a strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships, Durkeim |
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