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what is sociology?
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The scientific study of social behavior and human groups.
Auguste Comte 1798-1857 |
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favor nurture or nature?
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nurture- humans subject sociol conditioning
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3 things sociology is...
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1.) scientific study of society. social groups and institutions.
2.how other people influence our behavior. 3. concerned with identifying, tracking and explaining societal stability and change. |
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foundations of sociology
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research and theory
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epistemology
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how do we know what we know
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sociology is based on what type of verification
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empirical
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comte
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positivist
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what do sociologists do
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develop hypothesis and test them
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credibility of research rests on what?
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validity and reliability
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what is a hypothesis
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a speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors know as variables.
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applied sociology is...
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direct or practical application to social policy
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Functionalism
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emphasizes social harmony & function provided by social interactions.
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conflict theory
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marxism, feminism, ethnic/racial studies.
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symbolic interaction
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small scale or micro focus on meaning
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founding thinkers...3
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Mex weber emile durkeim and karl marx
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sociological imagination
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c wright mills...interconnections or intersections between personal lives and wider social structures or personal troubles and public issues.
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methodology
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route map or recipe for conducting research
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why do we need methodology
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helps ensure value neutrality or minimize impact of our values
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5 stages of sociological research
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1. define problem
2. review lit 3.form hypothesis 4.select research method/collect and analyze data 5.develop conclusion:publish results |
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what is culture?
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refers to music, literature, the arts
or to practices values and beliefs of a group or society |
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what are cultural universals?
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George murdock. things that all societies do but often do them differently
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what types of norms are there?
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formal norms-laws or rules of a sport.
mores-child protection highly cherished values informal norms-body space |
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sub culture and counter culture
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sub culture is micro and varies from dominant but not opposed.
counter culture-hippies reject mainstream values |
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Ethnocentrism
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to see another culture as inferior to our own
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charles horton cooley
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looking glass self- self is a product of social interactions. get sense of self through reaction of others
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george herbert mead
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founder of symbolic interactionism
3 stages- prep imitation play-awareness of others game- internalized presence of others |
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agents of socialization
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primary:family school peers media
secondary:media workplace secondary reinforce primary influences |
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impression mgmt
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erving goffman. face and notion of saving face.
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dramaturgical theory
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life as a performance or play we act out scripts erving goffman.
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correlation
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change in one variable coincides with another.
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causality
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may therefore be present.
less elevator lighting may be causing more talk |
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pure sociology
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indirect application that make a contribution to knowledge
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