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Sociology 201
University of Calgary
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
10/09/2007

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Term
Social Distance
Definition
Measure of how close you feel to other human beings.
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Sociological Perspective
Definition
Seeing the general in the particular.
In other words, sociologists identify general patterns in the behaviour of particular individuals.
Term
Social Order
Definition
Introduced by John Locke, people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.
Term
Positivism
Definition
A way of understanding based on science
cause & effect
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Sociological Imagination
Definition
Social Distance is broken by the Sociological Imagination: Root of compassion
Being able to theorize the linking between micro, messo and macro.
First mentioned by C Wright Mills
Term
Sui Generis
Definition
Term by Emile Durkheim: They are “of their own kind.”
Term
C Wright Mills
Definition
He first mentioned about Sociological imaginations
Term
Emile Durkheim
Definition
famous study, “Suicide.”
Durkheim
examined suicide rates (patterns) in
various European countries and
theorized that those who take their
own lives are members who are not
well integrated into social groups /
society. (Loners kill themselves)
Term
Androcentricity
Definition
seeing the world from a male’s
[privileged] perspective
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