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Big Three Figures of classical sociology
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Marx, Weber, Durkheim
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Three major theoretical frameworks or paradigms in the discipline of sociology
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Conflict, Functionalist, Interactionist
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4 levels
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Micro, Meso, Macro, Global
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Entails the ability to bridge the gap between the individual and the broader society/emancipates and empowers the individual in society/ requires us to expand our narrow views of the world around us/ is the critical consciousness that we are striving for in this class
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The sociological imagination
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Most common studied of levels
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Micro, Macro
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an assumption stating that human behavior is exclusively explained by social factors
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Social determinism
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Karl Marx and Weber are considered the founding fathers
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the conflict perspective in sociology
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a set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of social and social events, that provides “blueprints” for how the world tends to work
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Sociology Theory
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The concept of economic determinism is central to whose theoretical contribution to sociology?
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Karl Marx
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The concept of economic determinism posits that:
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Economic considerations drive everything in society
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a hierarchical formal organization characterized by rationality and efficiency
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bureaucracy
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According to Max Weber’s theory of the “iron cage” of rationality, bureaucracies can be:
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dehumanizing
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Which of the following may not be considered an example of social structure, or social facts?
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Roles/Behavioral expectations/ educational system/ economy
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one’s position in system of social relationships or social organization
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Status
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refers to the behavioral expectations that correspond to individual positions in a larger social group
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social roles
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Group Formation:
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Proximity/Similarity/ Mutual goals
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the hierarchical arrangement of people and social classes on the basis of power, prestige, and resources, and is a characteristic of virtually all societies
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Social Stratification
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refers to a situation where individuals could actively recognize “awareness: of their class interests and common oppression, thereby creating conditions favorable to changing society. (Marx's Concept)
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social consciousness
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status trumping other statuses
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master status
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According to Mills_________ occur within the social setting immediate to individual experience, and pertain to very limited , familiar areas of social life, like the self
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Individual issues
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a critical consciousness that helps us make the connection between smaller, personal problems (affecting small numbers of people) and broader, social problems (affecting very large numbers of people in society)
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Sociological imagination
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transcends local environments and pertain to many personal milieu organized into institution, social structures, and society
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Public issues
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The Conflict perspective in sociology argues that:
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Conflict is an inherit feature of social life/ All societies have inequality, which leads to conflict, which leads to social change
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Which of the following perspectives characterize the typical American approach to social problems?
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Blaming the individual
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This idea explains that there exists a systematic social bias against particular social groups in society, where specific social… etc… labeled
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labeling theory
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The_______ approach to deviance points to the influence social structure and social forces in the generation of deviant behavior. More sociological than other viewpoints
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Blaming Society
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The_________approach to deviance and social problems finds flaws within individual affected by these issues and include explanations like biological and psychological theories of deviance and social problems
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Blaming the individual
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In most societies, social control mechanisms tend to be _______
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effective
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The “organismic” or “biological” analogy heavily influenced which sociological paradigm?
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The functionalist perspective
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contributes to the smooth operation of society
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Function
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approach criticizes other theorists
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Conflict
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social control include the influence of brief systems and values and the use of propaganda to attack competing ideas.
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ideological
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We all commit acts of nonconformity at one time or another , but for sociologists, the _____ process is the key determinant in whether or not an individual or social group is considered “deviant”
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Labeling
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the process by which society’s demand become part of the individual and is accomplished through processes like brief systems, psychological identification with particular groups, and the construction of self identity
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Internalization
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we learn how to define reality through interaction and culture
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The social construction of reality
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Interactionism argues that the key factor guiding individuals’ interaction is
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Perception, or definition of the situation
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Functionalism
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Macro
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Conflict
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Macro
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Interactionism
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Micro
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In America race is most closely associated with
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Social Class
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Nacirema tribe illustrates the notion of ___________, where particular cultural practices seem to be weird or strange when viewed from outside a particular socio-cultural context.
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Cultural relativism
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the primary agent of socialization for the vast majority of society’s members
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Family
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refers to the tendency to deprecate the ways of people from other societies as wrong, old fashioned, inefficient, or immoral and to think of the ways of one’s own group superior
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Ethnocentrism
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include any mechanism that ensures conformity
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Social Control
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Deviance is considered socially constructed and thus culturally relative… deviance is dependent upon the_______
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society
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