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42 Cards in this Set
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What is Sociology?
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The systematic study of human society
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Who is Auguste Comte?
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French social thinker who coined the term sociology. Father of sociology
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Who is Emile Durkheim?
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Famous for suicide studies. Said suicide was caused by anomie (state of normlessness.)
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WE DuBois
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Sociology pioneer. Saw sociology as key to solving race inequalities. A founding member of the NAACP. Won Nobel Peace Prize
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Karl Marx
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Father of conflict management. Money controlled everything. Bougeoise (wealthy) and proletariat (workers)
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C Wright Mills
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Power controls everything. Power Elite. Business, military and politics.
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Conflct theory
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Scarce resources. Conflict makes changes
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Structural functionalism
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Functions based on structures. Make recommendations for changes
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Symbolic interaction
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sees society as product of everyday interactions
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Manifest functions
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Intended functions
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Latent functions
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Not intended, but positive effects
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Social disfunction
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Negative impacts
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Most developed, less developed, least developed
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High economic, middle and low. Low is mostly located in African countries
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Norms
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Normative behavior patterns, defined by society
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Research
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Good data is important, Random sampling, reliable
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Mean
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Average
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Median
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Halfway score
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Mode
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Most frequent score
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What is culture?
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Beliefs, values, language, bahaviors, material objects that define a people's way of life. Can be material and nonmaterial
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mores
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Strongly help norms
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Folkways
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Lightly help norms. Ie, manners, traditions.
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Taboos
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Extreme mores, universally forbidden in most cultures
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Subcultures
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Subcategories, acceptable.
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Counterculture
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Against acceptable culture
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Ethnocentrism
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Central to own ethnicity. Practice of judging other culture by our own culture
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cultural relativism
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Judgment of a culture should be relative to the corresponding culture
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Nature vs nurture
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Biology vs environment
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5 factors of "nurture"
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Family, religion, peers, education and media
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Freud's 3 parts of personality
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Id, ego, superego
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George herbert Mead
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Social self
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Charles horton cooley
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Looking glass self, (I and Me)
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Does socialization ever stop?
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No
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Erik Erikson
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Stage of life (development)
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Cultural transmission
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Process of one generation passing culture to the next
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Status
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What you are. (recognized position)
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Role
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What you do
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Ascribed status
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Born into
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Achieved status
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earned
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Status/role set
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set of statuses (what you are
set of roles (what you do) |
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Master status
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Very important status that shapes a person's life, effects other statuses
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Role strain
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Within a given role, issues take place
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Role conflict
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Conflict between 2 or more competing statuses
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