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| founder of the discipline of sociology |
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Emile Durkheim is considered by many to be the father of sociology
Studied suicide is affected by economy |
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| German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory |
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| Black Sociologist. First one |
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the values, cultural norms, and social structures external to the individual and capable of exercising a constraint on that individual.
Durkheim states that, 'The first and fundamental rule is to consider social facts as things. |
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| was a term coined by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) to refer to the shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society |
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| American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination |
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| was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959, to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. The term is used in introductory textbooks in sociology to explain the nature of sociology and its relevance in daily life. |
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facts that go against or undermind one's belief.
Example: some people believe that are society is free of racism. The inconvenient fact is that there still is racism in our society. |
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| social structures are created through conflict between people with differing interests and resources. Individuals and resources, in turn, are influenced by these structures and by the "unequal distribution of power and resources in the society |
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| also known as interactionism, is a sociological theory that places emphasis on micro-scale social interaction to provide subjective meaning in human behavior |
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| things that can be observed through the use of one's physical senses- sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. |
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the belief that other people and their ways of doing things can be understood only in terms of the cultural context of those people.
Ex: In some countries we have to understand that according to their cultural history it is right for someone to have their hand chopped off for stealing. |
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| making value judgments about another culture from perspectives of one's own cultural system |
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| often used to indicate that more than two methods are used in a study with a view to double (or triple) checking results. This is also called "cross examination" |
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| The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group |
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| is a term that refers to the relationship between artifacts and social relations |
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| refers to the nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture, including beliefs, values, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and institutions. |
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| are the accepted behaviors within a society or group |
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| enforced by gentle social pressure |
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| A little stronger than folkways, may involve broken laws. |
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| Unthinkable breaking of norms. Punished by law if caught |
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| terms of interlocking social roles and expectations. |
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| is the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society |
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| a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong. |
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| sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day |
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| creates norms and behavior patterns (for example, nicknames and rituals) that are different from those in the subculture of which it is a part. |
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| honor or prestige attached to one's position in society |
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| the behavior expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status |
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| Role strain can occur when the role you are fulfilling places too many demands on you |
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| similar but in addition to the job being too heavy it also means that there are contradictory aspects to the role or roles |
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| stating that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others. The term refers to people shaping themselves based on other people's perception, which leads the people to reinforce other people's perspectives on themselves. |
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| one of the key influences on the development of the branch of sociology called symbolic-interactionism. |
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| place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life |
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