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| Sociology as a Scientific Dicipline |
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| Socology is the study of human behoavior in society. Observation, reasoning, and logical analysis. Attempts to build on observaions of that are objective and accurate to create an anaylses that are reliable and can be validated. |
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| a visoin of sociology grounded in careful observation Comte belived that sociology could discover the laws of human behavior. A system of thought in which scientific observaion and description is considered the highest form of knowledge. |
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| the emergence of socilogy as a dicipline |
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| eligntenment and its effects on the emergence of scientific thought |
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| sociolgical perspective/imagination |
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| how we view the world looking at the worl by examining the general versus the particular.. truth out of commonsensce, strange infamiliar |
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| the structure of sociology and the orginizations/rules of situations, organized pattern of social relationships and social situations. |
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| how people act, the meaningful behavior between 2 or more people |
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| established organized behavior with a reconized behavior (family, religion, government) |
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| the alterations of society over time |
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| debunking and inconveniet facts |
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| debunking refers to looking behind the facades of everyday life "unmasking tendency" to be inconvenient is to see what something can be even if it challenges familiar ways of thinking. |
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| Capitilism, economic orginization basic element. Bourgeoise-owners of means of production. Proletanet-labors |
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| continued on Marx work expanded into political, economical, and cultural elements Verstehen-the understanding of social behavoir from anothers point of view walk in someone elese shoes |
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| jewish fanicaiated by anti-semitisim his work is the base of fuctionlism |
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| first applied sociologist versus the armchair sociologist tried to change society versus those that talk but don't apply |
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| social darwinism survival of the fittest |
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| individual identiy developed thought people understanding of how they are perecived by others. |
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| Affrican amreican socialists, look at race relations. NAACP. took ideas from Marx |
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| Structure, Function with in a Society. A whole ecosystem if something happens to one part everything changes. Manifest-the intended, reconized funtions Latent-unintended functions |
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| conflict/fighting drives society. inequality exists everywhere. constantly fighting over resources |
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| Symbolic Interaction Theory |
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| the symbolic meaning we attach to behaviors and language. Always changing which evolves from ever-evolving social realationships. |
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| anyslising the status of men and women in society |
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| Develop a question-Create a reasearch design(qualitative-description, quanitative-numbers)-Gather data-Analyze the data-Reaching conclustions and Reporting Results-Implications for further reasearch |
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| surveys, polls, questioninares, content analysis, ocmparative and historical reasearch, evalutation reaserach |
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| Professional Guidelines, ethics an bais in reasearch |
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| there will always be bais but we strive to be bais free |
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| the complex and elaborate system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a group or society |
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| symbols-language.. norms-rules and regualtions, expected behaviors.. Folkways-general standards of behavior.. Mores-laws..values-standards to which the beliefs are based upon.. beliefs-shared ideas |
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| Characteristis of culture |
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| shared, learned, taken for granted(its just normal), varied across time and place, symbolic |
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| posited that language dtermines other aspects of culture since language provides the categories thought hwich socail reality is defined and consturcted |
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| norms and values for the culture come from the dominate culture. Expressed by the media. Social institutions are based on the values and beliefs of the dominate culutre. |
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| coexist with dominate culture, not rying ot change dominate culture |
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| rebel agains dominate cultural values, examples kkk, trying to change dominate culture |
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| the habit of seeing things only fromt eh point of view of one's own group. |
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| when someone faces a new culture and becomes disorentied. |
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| inclues the beliefs , practices and objects of everyday tradtions ex christmas |
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| the process by which human beings learn the social expectations of society. |
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| Government, Parents, Eduicational system |
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