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Sociology Chapter 1
Vocabulary Terms
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2012

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Social forces
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Any effective urge or impulse that leads to social action
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Social relationships
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An interaction between individuals that affects every participant
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Social institutions
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Established and organized systems of social behavior with a particular and recognized purpose
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Personal trouble
Definition
Privately felt problems that spring from events or feelings in a person's life
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Social issue
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Affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society
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Social structure
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The organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together constitute society
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Positivism
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a system of thought that regards scientific observation to be the highest form of knowledge
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Social facts
Definition
social patterns that are external to individuals
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Latent functions
Definition
subtle, unitended consequences of an institutional element of which the participants are usually unaware
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Conflict theory
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a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order
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Auguste Comte
Definition
  1. Coined the term sociology
  2. Positivism
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Emile Durkhiem
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  1. Functionalism theory
  2. Social facts
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Robert Merton
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  1. Functionalism
  2. Manifest vs. Latent functions
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Functionalism
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Inteprets each part of society in terms
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Manifest functions
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the stated and intended goals of social behavior
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Karl Marx
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  1. Conflict theory
  2. Struggle among economic social classes
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