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| Peter Berger's three motifs of thinking |
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| Debunking, Unrespectability, Relativization |
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| To be good, Sociology must go beyond conventional wisdom |
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| Peter Berger's Unrespectability |
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| You must be equally interested in the "respectable" people and the "seedy underbelly of society" |
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| Peter Berger's Relativization |
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| The ability to imagine the world as being different from what it is |
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| A population organized to carry out the major functions of life |
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| The study of knowledge. How we know what we know. |
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| Both coercive and bigger than you |
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| Our subjects have free will |
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| Says that the subject WILL do something (as in physics and chemistry) |
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| Saying that the subject will PROBABLY behave a certain way (as in psychology and sociology.) |
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| Connection between agency and reasoning |
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| Our subjects have free will. We can therefore not say with certainty that they will behave a certain way (determinative reasoning.) We can say that they will probably behave a certain way though (prohibitionist reasoning.) |
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| Ideographic level of reasoning |
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| Concerned with in-depth details of one thing. (Historians use this.) |
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| Nomothetic level of reasoning |
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| Concerned with the "Big Picture." (Sociologists use this.) |
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| Are you measuring what you think you're measuring? |
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| Do you get the same results each time? |
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| What do we mean? (ie: define "racism.") |
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| What are we going to count? How will we get the information we seek? |
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| Berger and Luckman's social construction of reality |
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| Says that everything is just a social construction |
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| Berger and Luckman's process of understanding the social construction of reality |
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| Externalization, Objectification, Internalization. |
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| When the presence of a third variable makes a statistical relationship disappear |
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