Chapter 1 Clep Sociology Key Terms

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bourgeoisie

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people who own the means of production in industrial society

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conflict perspective

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a view that society is composed of groups with clashing interests who engage in a struggle over control of valuable social resources.

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Functionalist perspective

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a view that society is a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts.

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industrialization

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the process by which societies are transformed from agricultural based economic activity to manufacturing based economic activity.

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Latent function

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The largely unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution.

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Macro-level

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A focus on the dynamics and meanings of face to face interactions between people and small groups

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proletariat

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People who own only their labor power, which they sell to the bourgeoisie to earn a living

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Social dysfunction

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The undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system.

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Social Facts

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Patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual

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Social structure

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The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group of society.

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Society

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A large grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose.

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Sociology

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The systematic study of human society and social interaction

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Sociological perspective

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The ability to see the general in the particular

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Symbolic-interaction perspective

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A view of society as the ongoing product of the everyday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups

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Theory

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A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related.

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theoretical perspective

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A basic overall image or paridigm used to organize a way of understanding society.

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Urbanization

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The process by which an increasing proportion of a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas.

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Auguste Comte

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coined the term sociology and believed that the application of the scrientific method to the study of industrial society would lead to its improvement.

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C. Wright Mills

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Identified the term sociological imagnation to describe the link between an individuals experiences and the society in which the individual lives.

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Charles Horton Cooley

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Symbolic-interactionalist who identified the concept of looking glass self, in which one's self, in which one's sense of self is based on the imagined reaction of others.

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Emile Durkheim

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Conducted well-known studies on social facts using suicide pattern statistics

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Erving Goffman

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Symbolic-interactionist who used dramaturgical analysis to explain social roles

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George Herbert Mead

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Symbolic-interactionist who explored the social influences on the development of a sense of self

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Karl Marx

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Founded the conflict perspective by dividing society into the bourgeoisie and proletariat

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Robert Merton

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Functionalist who discerned between manifest and latent functions