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20 Cards in this Set
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sociological imagination
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Imaginative thought of asking and answering questions regarding sociology
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social structure
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patterns in how people behave and interact with eachother
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social construction
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An idea or practice that a group of people agree exists.
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socialization
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the process of developing an awareness of social norms and values.
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social facts
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(Durkheim) aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals
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organic solidarity
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(Durkheim) Cohesion resulting from parts of a society working togerther as a whole
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social constraint
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(Durkheim) conditioned influences of our behavior as members of a group and society
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division of labor
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specialization of work tasks in a group. different occupations are designated to form a production system
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anomie
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(Durkheim) a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior
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Durkheim
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_____ thought that modern development is constructed by division of labor, social cohesion, and organic solidarity
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Marx
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_____ thought that modern development is the expansion of capitalism. society is divided by class differences
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Weber
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______ thought that modern development is the rationalization of social and economic life
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Rationalization
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(Weber) the organization of social, economic and cultural life according to principles of efficiency on the basis of technical knowledge
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symbolic interactionism
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(Mead) the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction.
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Functionalism
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social events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform
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manifest functions
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social activity that are know to and intended by the individuals involved.
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latent functions
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consequences that are not intended or recognized by the members of social systems
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feminist theory
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centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the uniqueness of the women experience
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rational choice approach
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individual behavior is purposful
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postmodernism
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society is no longer governed by history or progress
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