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16 Cards in this Set
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Sociological Imagination
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Intersection between history and biography
"different people in different places and times" |
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Emperical Evidence
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Data from observation and experience
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Debunking
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looks beyond obvious explainations
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August Comte
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1798-1857
Coined "sociology" Soc should be studied as a science |
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Emile Durkheim
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1858-1917
Father of Sociology Suicide Studied |
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Karl Marx
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1818-1883
Political figure "Cheif problem is struggle of individuals to reproduce themselves materially." |
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Max Weber
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1864-1920
Interested in how behavior became goal oriented rather than value oriented |
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Harriet Martineau
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1820-1903
Early Feminist one of earliest sociologists issues related to sociological methodology |
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Herbert Spencer
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1820-1903
Evolution of human societies Inspired by Darwin "survival of fittest" |
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Manifest functions
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Obvious function
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Latent functions
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Unintended function
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ethnocentricism
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Evaluating one's culture as superior to others
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folkways
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informal norms regulating customary ways of behaving
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Mores
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norms that culture considers vitally important, necessary
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sanctions
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penalties for violating norms
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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"language determines thought"
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