Soc 001 Midterm 1

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Trouble by C. Wright Mills

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Trouble that occurs within a personal circumstance

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A city of 100,000 people, one man loses his job

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Issue C. Wright Mills

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Issue that has to do with the environment a group of people face

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A problem out of an individuals reach

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Public Sociology Michael Burawoy

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Sociology that engages in the public's opinion outside of academy, in the form of dialogue

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A form of non-academic sociology

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Policy Sociology (Political sociology)

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Sociology that focuses on solutions to a specific problem by a client (contractual)

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Form of sociology that can be seen as a paid service

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Professional Sociology

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Sociology that provides legitimacy, expertise, distinctive problem definitions, relevant bodies of knowledge, and techniques for analysing data.

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Can be seen as the data of sociology

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Critical Sociology

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Sociology that critiques the professional sociology

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The conscience of professional sociology

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Sociological Imagination Mills Definition

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The grasp of how we see the world based of our biography (experiences) and history (society during that time) and the relations between the two within society

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Knowing ones self and ones environment

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Observation

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Recording using our senses (see, hear, feel, taste, smell)

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Senses

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Values

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Ideas held by groups or individual about what is good, or desirable

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Being faithful to your spouse

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Norms

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Rules of to follow in a given situation, prescribes a type of behavior or forbids it

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If you don't follow it your considered weird

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What is Modern Society?

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Capitalism, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Globilization

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Capitalism

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Private ownership of means of production - rather collective or state ownership

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Industrialization

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Transformation of a primary agricultural economy to one based on manufacturing goods

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Urbanization

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The formation of large number of people in a permanently concentrated area

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Globilization

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Term used to describe how trade and technology has made the wold more connected and interdependent

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Karl Marx's Social Change

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Made through conflict between economic class (rich vs poor)

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Max Weber

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Idea that efficiency formally know as rationalization makes up society (bureaucracy)

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Organic Solidarity

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Components of a society work as an integrated whole

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Sociological Imagination

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The way of seeing or thinking about the world that connects personal experiences with larger social forces at hand

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Social Construction

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An idea or practice that a group of people agree exist (Human created)

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Social Structure

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A pattern of behaviors that determine how people behave in their relationships with one another

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Anomie

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A feeling of aimlessness or depression provoked by social life

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Bureaucracy

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Highly organized networks of hierarchy and command structure in organizations

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College has a financial, registrar, and academic office

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Rationalization

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The replacement of values, emotion, and ideals for efficiency and calculation

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Idea from Max Webber

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Conflict Theory

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Society is fundamentally unstable due to conflict of economic class, groups competing for power

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Socialization

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Process by which values and norms are learned and allows for identity

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Social Order

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Way in which various components of society work together to maintain conformity

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Agency

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Capacity of individuals to think, act, and make decisions for themselves (given choices and being able to decide from those choices)

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Reasoning

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What connections are made through things we observe

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Selective observation (errors)

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Noticing things that are in line with our preferences or beliefs

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Faulty observation

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An observation based on a faulty perception of reality

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Participant Observation

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Researcher participates in what is being researched and records observation

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Ethnography

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Full immersion into research setting anywhere from month to years

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Culture

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Systems of meanings and behaviors thet define the way of life for a group of society(means by which we express what is significant to us)

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Identity

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Distinct characteristics of a person on what is meaningful to them

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Theories of Deviance

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Control Theory, Functionalist Theory, Interactionist Theory, Labeling Theory

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Functionalism Theory (Deviance)

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Crime occurs when the aspirations of individuals and groups do not agree with available opportunities

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Interactionist Theory (Deviance)

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Deviance is socially constructed, behaviors are defined as deviant, and certain groups are labeled deviant

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Conflict Theory (Deviance)

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Individual choose to be deviant in response to inequalities of capitalism

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Control Theory (Deviance)

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Individuals will act to maximize award through deviant behavior unless the social and physical risk is too great

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Panopticon

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Prison architecture meant to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning power. (Inmate is caught up in power situation where he/she is their own barrier)