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| What Criteria does a Social Class System Use to Stratify its Members? |
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Wealth, Power, And Prestige
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| What General Predictions can Sociologists make about a persons life prospects if all that is known is the persons Social Class? |
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| What Quality of Education She will receive |
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| People Today are more likely to identify themselves through Personal Characteristics through group Memberships or Affiliation. Why is this a cause for concern to some Sociologist? |
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| Because individuals who Identify themselves through Personal Characteristics might care less about common good. |
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| What is the Primary Goal of Comparative & Historical Research Methods? |
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| To examine historical events in order to create explanations that are valid beyond a particular time and place, either by direct comparison to other historical events. |
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| Why would mentioning a sensitive issue such as divorce or infidelity in a survey question influence how respondents answer later questions? |
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| The respondents may think about the sensitive issue when answering later questions. |
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| What are the steps in a Scientific Method? |
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- Ask/Form a question
- Research
- Construct a Hpothesis
- Test your Hypothesis
- Analyze the Data
- Share your results
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| What was Marx Criticizing when he said that religion is The Opiate of the Masses? |
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It means or he means Religion is the Sigh of the oppressed creature.
the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. |
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| Understand the difference between an Open and closed Class System. |
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Open System : matter can be exchanged with the surrounding
Closed system: Matter cannot be exchanged with the surrounding |
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| Understand the Views of the conflict theorist, and Symbolic Interactionist views by gender |
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Symbolic Interactionsist :
gender is produced and reinforced through daily interactions and the use of symbols.
Conflict Theorist believe men as the dominant subordinate women in order to maintain power and Privelage |
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Define
- Anomie
- Midrange Theroy
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Anomie:
Lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group
Midrange Theory:
Robert k Merton Describeshelped “bridge the gap between raw empiricism and grand all-inclusive theories” . What is meant by this is that theories of middle range are an approach to integrate extremely particular observable phenomena which cannot be generalized just yet and abstract grand theories that attempt to explain everything without caring about the far more intricate aspects of society.
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Charles Cooley believed that self is developed through the socialization process.
Peoples Self understanding is constructed in part by their perception of how others view them. |
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Using ones own culture as a standard by which to evaluate another group or individual leading to view the other culture as abnormal.
*can lead to discrimination |
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Lessons taught informally and usually unintentionally in a school system
*being on time |
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The Domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of the society
*the student leadership in a school |
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| A group within society that openly rejects and may actively oppose Society Values and norms. |
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| Normative Social Influence |
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influence of other people that lead us to conform in order to be liked and accepted.
*Found in Compliance & Identification |
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Irving Goffman
Social life is Analyzed in terms of its similarity to theater |
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| an approach to sociology which emphasizes the analysis of social systems and populations on a large scale |
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| an approach to sociology which emphasizes the analysis of social systems and populations on a large scale |
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| analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: |
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| is an approach that attempts to define how society has progressed to an era beyond modernity. |
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| a conflict theory and theoretical perspective which observes gender in its relation to power, both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within a social structure at large. Focuses include sexual orientation, race, economic status, and nationality. |
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| a sociological theory that explains why society functions the way it does by emphasizing on the relationships between the various social institutions that make up society (e.g., government, law, education, religion, etc). |
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| data is any data that is in numerical form such as statistics, percentages, etc. |
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| data type is non-numerical in nature. This type of data is collected through methods of observations, one-to-one interview, conducting focus groups and similar methods. |
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| he process and practice of promoting one culture over another. Often this occurs during colonization, where one nation overpowers another country |
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| a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society. |
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"out of sight, out of mind"; rural, or in suburbs blending in
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| the belief that heterosexuality, predicated on the gender binary, is the norm or default sexual orientation. ... THIS view therefore involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles |
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| the view that every entity has a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function. In early Western thought, Plato's idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". |
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