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| What was C. Wright Mills' essential lesson of sociology ? |
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| To truly understand people's behavior, we must look beyond those individuals to the larger social contexts in which they live. |
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| According to the Mills reading, in what ways can society affect one's behavior? |
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| It can influence and have an impact on why an individual makes the decisions that they make. |
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| What is one very strong point from Mills ? |
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| If we are to understand people's behavior, we must take into account these nonindividual factors. |
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| What does the word Milieux mean ? |
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| It is French for "social enviroments" |
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| According to Mills , men have a sense of being what ? |
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| According to Mills, every change in society whether its now or historically, seems to what ? |
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| Have an effect on the way us humans live our lives. |
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| What does Mills feel like has shaped us to become the humans that we are today ? |
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| He says that we are unaware that social changes and the big ups and downs in society has shaped us to become the humans that we are today. |
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| Who said tha humans " do not posess the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world" ?? |
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| According to Mills, we can't seem to cope with our personal troubles in respect to what ? |
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| the structural transformations that lie behind them. |
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| In sociology, what does the term "institution" mean ? |
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| A set of social arrangements, an accepted way of resolving important social problems. |
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| What is the concept of institutional contradiction ? |
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| Refers to situations in which the demands of one institution are not compatible with the demands of another institution. |
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| What is an example of an institutional contradiction ? |
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| For instance, a family that has a norm of dad going to work, and momstaying home to do domestic duties, but the economy says that it takes to adults in order to support a family ! |
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| According to Mills, what is the history that now affects every human ? |
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| What is it that enables one to understand how history affects the individual ? |
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| the Sociological Imagination |
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| What is the first fruit of the sociological imagination ? |
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| An individual understanding & learning through their own experiences, as well as determining their future by understanding others who are in similar situations as them. |
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| According to Mills, what has a "push and shove" on society ? |
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| What enables us to grip history and biography , and the relations between the two in society ? |
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| the Sociological imagination |
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| What is considered to be the best in contemporary studies of man and society ? |
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| the Sociological Imagination |
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| What does Social Analysts do ? |
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| Ask many questions regarding the structures, components, and circumstances of a society. |
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| What group of people are considered the intellectual pivots of classic studies of man in society ? |
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| According to Mills, with a Sociological Imagination, one should be able to switch from what to what...? |
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| The most impersonal, to the most intimate features of the human self. |
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| The quote from the Mills , " intersections of biography and history within society" can be best classified as an aspect of what ? |
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| The sociological imagination |
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| What is the biggest distinction with which the sociological imagination works between ? |
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| The personal troubles of milieux (personal troubles of social enviroments) , and The public issues of social structure. |
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| what distinction is considered to be an essential tool of the sociological imagination ? |
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| The whole "vs" between personal troubles of milieux , and public issues of social structure. |
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| According to Mills, where do troubles evolve from ? |
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| Troubles eveolve from the character of a person, and within the range of his immediate relations with others. |
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| A trouble is classified as what type of matter ? |
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| In sociology, what's the definition of a trouble? |
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| values cherished by an individual are felt by him to be threatened. |
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| Where do issues evolve from ? |
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| Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local enviroments of the individual , and the range of his inner life. |
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| what type of matter is an issue ? |
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| In sociology, what is the definition of an issue ? |
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| some values cherished by publics is felt to be threatened. |
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| For example, out of 100,000 if ONE man is unemployed, what would this be considered ? |
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| If something is classified as a personal trouble, how do we go about finding solutions ? |
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| we must look to HIS character, HIS skills, and HIS immediate oppurtunities. |
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| For example, out of 50 million people, let's say 15 million men were unemployed. What would this be considered ? |
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| If something is classified as an issue, how do we go about finding solutions ? |
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| Consider the economic, and political institutions of the society, RATHER THAN the personal situations. |
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| In order to be sure that we're searching for the correct solutions and/or asking the right meaningful questions using our Sociological Imagination, we must know what ? |
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| Whether the situation is classified as a trouble or an issue ! |
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| When do structural issues arouse ? |
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| when you're looking at a larger group |
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| When do personal troubles arouse ? |
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| when it's simply one or two people being affected . |
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| what's an example of distinguishing between personal troubles , and structural issues ? |
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| If i'm going through a problem in my relationship, it's just a personal trouble. But if all black women seem to be going through the same thing, it means tere is a structural issue with the instituitions of black relationships. |
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| If there's a problem in a neighborhood (such as robbing and break -ins) , and you put a full force alarm system, and a gate around your home, then what exactly are you solving ? |
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| your only solving your personal problems, but not the structural issues of the neighborhood. |
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| Once problems become so widespread, tey tend to lack ...? |
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| What can't be solved by personal ingenuity and private wealth, and wat can ? |
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| Issues can't, but troubles can. |
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| In order to fix structural issues, we must possess what ?? |
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| the Sociological imagination |
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| In your own words , what is the sociological imagination ? |
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| Being able to understand and grasp the concept of how internal, and external factors ( including the past) have an affect on an individual life , behavior, and choices in society. Whether its extremely personal, or impersonal, but being able to relate the two in society. |
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| What kinds of questions are asked by those who possess the sociological imagination ? |
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| what is te structure of this paticular society as a whole ? where does this society stand in human history ? what varieties of men and women now prevail in this society and in this period ? |
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| Why does Mills say that the distinction between troubles and issues is "an essential tool of the sociological imagination " ? |
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| Simply because, you have to know the circumstances in order to be able to find the corect solutions . You can't formulate the right question if you're unable to determine whether it's an issue or a trouble. |
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| A successful sociologist makes... ? |
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| the study of human society |
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| what is the first step in thinking like a sociologist ? |
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| ask yourself a question about something you may have previously taken for granted. |
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| How would you define the term "Thinking Like A Sociologist" ? |
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| applying analytical tools to something you have always done w/o much conscious thought. |
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| Always make the familiar....? |
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| Who coined the term Sociological Imagination ? |
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| According to Mills, " we need to use our sociological imagination to se..." ? |
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| the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history . |
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| Te sociological imagination was written in which year ? |
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| We must realize that we're not alone in what...? |
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| Who came up with the fish-out-of-water feeling ? |
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| We need to get into the mindset of strange things becoming... ? |
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| What was considered a time of enormous political, social , and technological change ? |
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| You need to be able to question the link between ...? |
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| your personal experiences , and the particulars of a given society. |
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| what was the decade in which mills wrote his seminal work ? |
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| we need to ask ourselves about what we take natural that...? |
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| what is another one of sociology's most important concepts ? |
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| What is a social institution ? |
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| a group of social positions, connected by social relations, performing a social role; any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within it. |
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| what are social relations ? |
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| a grand narrative that unifies these stories within the network. |
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| the sum total stories told about you is considered to be...? |
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| the grand narrative of who you are. |
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| Becoming aware of the intersections between social institutions and your life is another aspect of ?? |
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| thinking like a sociologist again |
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| Who invented social physics/positivism ? |
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| Auguste Comte ( the french scholar ) |
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| what is the job of the sociologist ? |
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| to develop a secular morality |
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| What are Comte's 3 stages of sociology? |
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| Theological , metaphysical, and scientific stage. |
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| Who was the first to translate Comte into English ? |
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| Who wrote "Theory of practice of society in america " ? |
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| Who is cobsidered to be one of the earliest feminist social scientists ? |
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| Harriet Martineau felt that what was based on an assumption of inferiority of women ? |
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| What three men are considered the founding fathers of the sociological discipline ? |
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| Marx, Weber, and Durkheim |
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| Marx's writing provided the basis for what ?? |
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| Wat did Marx believe drove social change throughout history ? |
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| Conflicts between classes |
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| Who stated " people become slaves to industrial technology in order to make a living ." ? |
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| What did Weber see as cause of how society evolves unlike Karl Marx ? |
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| culture, ideas, and religion. |
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| Wat did Weber criticize Marx on ? |
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| His focus on the economy and social class. |
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| What is Max Weber most famous for ? |
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| His two-volume work "Economy and Society" which was written in the year 1992. |
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| What was Weber's most important contribution ? |
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| the concept of "Verstehen". |
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| what is Weber's concept of Verstehen & what does Verstehen mean in German ? |
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| Verstehen is German for understanding. To truly understand why people act the way they do, a sociologist must understand the meanings people attach to their actions** |
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| what is interpretive sociology ? |
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| the study of social meaning |
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| what did emile durkheim wish to understand? |
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| how society holds together and the ways that modern capitalism and industrialization have transformed how people relate to one another. |
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| who wrote "the division of lanor in society" ? |
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| What was Durkheim's argument ? |
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| that the division of labor didn't just affect work/productivity , but had social and moral consequences too. |
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| what did Durkheim say in Suicide ? |
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| that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is the sense of normlessness, resulting from drastic changes in living arrangements or living conditions, which he calls anomie. |
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| Who is considered the founding practitioner of sociology ? |
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| what is formal sociology ? |
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| sociology of pure numbers |
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| who established formal sociology ? |
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| Human's behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical enviroments. |
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| What is the theory of "social self" , according to George Simmel ? |
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| how the social enviroment shapes the individual. |
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| what concept is Charles Horton Cooley best known for ? |
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| that the self emerges from an interactive social process. Basically, we envision how others perceive us, then we gauge the responses of other individuals to our presentation of self. |
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| Who wrote "Mind, Self, and Society" ? |
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| what was Mead's "Generalized Order" ? |
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| our view of the views of society as a whole that trascends individuals or particular situations. |
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| What was the key to both Cooley and Mead's work ? |
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| It is through social interaction that meaning emerges. |
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| Who was the most important black sociologist of the time and the first African-American to receive a p.h.d from Harvard ? |
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| who developed the concept of double consciousness ? |
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| what is "double consciousness" ? |
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| a mechanism by which african-americans constantly maintain two behavorial scripts. One script being that any American would have moving through the world, the second being the external opinions of an often racially prejudiced onlooker into consideration. |
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| People with a double consciousness are fully constrained to what ? |
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| the behaviors predicted of them. |
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