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| Sociology is the systematic study of human societies. |
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| What is the Sociological Perspective |
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| Seeing the general in the particular |
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| Who created the Sociological Perspective |
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| What are Individualistic Explanations |
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| Attributing people’s achievements and failures to their personal qualities. |
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| What is "The Sociological Imagination |
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The ability to see the impact of massive cultural and historical processes on our private lives.
The imagination is stimulated by assuming a willingness to view the world from the perspective of others.
a "quality of mind" that allows one to grasp "history and biography and the relations between the two within society.” |
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| Who created "The Sociological Imagination |
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| C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) |
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| What does Mills believe about The Sociological Imagination |
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| that human beings cannot be understood apart from the social and historical structures in which they are formed and in which they interact. |
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| What must we do to fulfill the promise of social science? |
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| to focus upon substantive problems, and to relate these problems to structural and historical features of the sociocultural system. |
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| Sociological perspective helps us____ ___ ____ of ____ _____. |
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| assess the truth of “common sense”. |
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| We re-create _______ not only through acts of _______ and organized ______ _________ but also through our daily ___________ |
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society
defiance
social movements
interactions |
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| Society is simultaneously a ______ creation and a phenomenon that exists independently of us, influencing and ____________ our private __________. |
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human
controlling
experiences |
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| Why do we think Sociologically? |
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| To explain why people are the way they are, or why they do the things they do…we must understand the interpersonal, historical, cultural, organizational, and global environments they inhabit. |
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| Who created classic sociological work entitled Suicide, published in 1897 |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) |
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| Who compared statistics and historical data across different groups |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) |
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Who said,
if suicide is an “individual”-based act, rates would be fairly constant across time and place, however, this is not the case. |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) |
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| What are the three different types of Suicide |
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| What is Egoistic Suicide know for |
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Higher among widowed, divorced, or single people than among married people
Higher among people without children than among parents
Higher among Protestants than among Catholics |
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| What is Altruistic Suicide |
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When ties to one’s community are too strong, individuality may be overshadowed.
Examples may be found in “greedy” group sects.
In circumstances where community or family needs are considered far superior to needs of individual. |
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When conditions around which people organize their lives dramatically change (economic depressions, wars, famines etc.).
May result in sense of hopelessness and despair. |
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Rapid social change creates a normative vacuum – a state of anomie.
People are searching for new norms and guidelines which may unleash greed and loosen social ties. |
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