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28 Cards in this Set
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Sociological imagination |
being able to look at the world, from different imaginative perspectives |
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Personal Issues |
issues that can be recognized on a personal level |
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Social issues |
issues that can be recognized on a societal level |
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Micro Soc |
small scale social phenomena |
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Macro Soc |
large scale social phenomena |
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Agency |
an individuals ability to make decisions within a social structure |
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# components of theory |
framework, generalizable, can withstand test of time. |
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Marx |
market system, functionalist theory, capitalism |
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Capitalist Theory |
capitalist own means of production, proletariat works for pay |
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Exploitative |
repetition, no connection w finished product, competition with other workers |
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Weber |
rationalism, calvinism |
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Calvinism |
religion rules economy |
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Rationalism |
most efficient means to an end |
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Durkheim |
social facts, conflict theory |
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Social facts |
macro-level phenomena that impose themselves on people |
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anomie |
person unaware of what is expected of them in society |
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collective conscious |
set of beliefs shared throughout society |
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functionalist theory |
society works as organism everything has a purpose |
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Functions |
observable + consequences |
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dysfunctions |
observable - consequences |
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manifest functions |
intended |
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latent functions |
unintended |
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symbolic interactionism |
act on things based on meaning they have to us, meaning come through social interaction, then modified through interpretations |
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surveys |
questionnaires administered to populations being studied |
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population |
people being studied |
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sample |
small portion of larger population |
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ethnography |
studying people firsthand through observation or interviewing |
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participant observations |
researcher takes part in activities in group or community being studied |
