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| Complex group of positions that perform a social role |
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| sum of individual stories told between pairs of individuals |
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| Created positivism - we can determine right and wrong without looking to higher powers. |
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| First to translate Comte into English. One of the earliest feminists |
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| Thought that it was primarily conflicts between classes that drove social change. |
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| Argued that there are other influences to society than just economics - also coined the term Verstehen (sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in it) - must understand the meanings people attach to their actions - interpretive sociology |
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| The division of labor had social and moral consequences as well - helps to determine social cohesion. Coined Anomie - which is too little social regulation. |
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| Founded pure sociology - numbers (difference between group size) |
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| Behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical environments |
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| looking glass self - argues that the self emerges from an interactive social process. We envision how others perceive us |
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| Self develops over childhood - generalized other - our views of the views of society as a whole |
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| Notion that the best way to analyze society was to identify the roles that different aspects or phenomena play |
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| Conflict among competing interest is the basic force of any society - driving social change (like marx) |
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| people act in response to the meaning that signs and social signals hold for them (making judgement of people based on what the wear, how they speak etc.) |
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| Notion that shared meanings have eroded. No longer one version of history |
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| Predict how social institutions tend to function. Generates predictions that can be tested in real world |
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| more like history in its focus on particular circumstances |
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| Assumption of rationalization and dealing with power |
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| focuses on face to face, uses participant obs |
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| Concerned with social dynamics at a higher level of analysis |
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