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28 Cards in this Set
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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1. first African American to graduate from Harvard
2. founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 3. started the Segregated Academy |
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manifest functions
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what something does
ex: function of teaching is learning |
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structural functional approach
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*BIG WHEEL*
functionalism - society is larger than it's parts and each part needs to work together for society to work no one can move up in society and no one can move down because that would mess society up ex: big wheel MACRO |
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sociology
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1. the scientific study of human social behavior.
2. helps you understand and organize your enviornment more clearly 3. helps you understand opportunities and constraints that you may come across 3. understand common sense |
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max weber
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conflict theory
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social marginality
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(marginal people) - outside main stream of society (don't get fully into society)
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jane adams
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1. social worker
2. started huld house in Chicago (settlement house). 3. won nobel peace prize 4. helped acclimate immigrants 5. helped women get skills to get jobs. |
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global understanding
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difference between society in different places
ex: chicago has chicago pizza texas has texas land & steak |
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solidarity and stability
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everyone in society together (functionalism)
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goal of sociology's pioneers
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1. interpret people's actions
2. understand where people are coming from |
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social - conflict approach
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|_\ <---- Elite (sit in chair) |__\ <---- burgeoisie (buy chair) |___\ <---- proletariat (make chair, but can't afford to buy it) lumpen proletariat (lower than proletariat) POWER (holding power over someone else) MACRO |
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william graham sumner
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1. yale professor
2. talks about social darwinism 3. social change evolves through activitism |
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symbolic - interaction
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theory
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tool used to organize empirical observations that produces logically related statements about observed behavior and relate observed social facts to broad sociological questions
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macro-level
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includes all of society
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sociology careers
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social worker
teacher criminal justice business |
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micro-level focus
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only two people
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deviance
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in order to maintain order, we have to name some people as not following the rueles.
changes as time goes by ex: punishment for marijuana can be a positive adaptation (making it less punishable) ********************************** 1. rationalized deviance - i stole medicine because my baby is sick and i don't have money 2. medicalized deviance - making things into diseases; shopaholic, alcoholic 3. psychological explanation - he's an alcoholic because his dad was an alcoholic 3. positive deviance |
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crime vs. deviance
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informal deviance is breaking cultural norms
ex: sex before marriage formal deviance is breaking laws = crime ex: murder types of crime: 1. white collar crime - most popular, least punished (stealing a pen from work)/ embezzlement 2. personal - rape, murder, etc 3. property - arson, burglarly 4. hate - doing something like (murder) for a reason like race 5. victimless - gambling, prostitution, drugs, etc 6. organized - MOB, illegal goods and services (conflict theory) |
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durkheim's approach to deviance
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deviance is needed for society to work correctly; we need people who break the law
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functions of deviance
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anomie - suicide
1. anomic suicide - doing it to get out of something 2. altruistic suicide - done to solve problems for others; ex: me failing is a problem for my parents so let me solve it by killing myself 3. egoistic suicide - done to satisfy something in yourself; ex: setting yourself on fire |
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medicalization of deviation
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attachment of medical labels to behaviour regarded as socially or morally undesirable
ex: alcoholism, shopoholicism |
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hate crime
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committing a crime (ex: murder) for a reason like race or gender
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white-collar crime
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doing little crimes such as stealing a pen from work
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social-conflict approach - society says deviant
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conflict theory links deviance to inequalities
poor are targeted elite can hide their crimes |
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two components of crime
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1. intention to do a crime
2. actually doing the crime |
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Openly-political theory
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Conflict theory
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people who get arrested for violent crimes
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african americans
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