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How do the text define sociology?
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sociology - the systematic study of social behaviours in human societies
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Text defines macrosociology as? And, what does it look at?
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macrosociology-study of large social organizations
looks at how social structures determine individual action |
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text defines microsociology as?And, what does it look at?
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microsoiology - study of face-to-face interaction in a small group
looks ar how individual action makes up social structure |
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What are the four major theory camps?
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functionalism
conflict theory symbolic interationism feminism |
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what are the three distinct empirical traditions of sociological theory?
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multivariate theory
interpretive thoery historical-comparative theory |
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what is epistemology?
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a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowing, how it is obtained, and the means for establishing its validity
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what is ethnomethodology?
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a type of research that analyzes the methods poeple use in relation to one another to make sense of social life and conceptual order at the everyday level
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what is sociological imagination?
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attemps to link micro to macro
individuals to society |
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power is divided up into 3, what are they?
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class, status, party
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what was Kroeber & Kluckhohn (1952) 2000
definition of culture? |
culture is to a population aggregate what personality is to the individual; and the ethos is the core of most probable behaviors
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what did the lectures say about culture?
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widely used, ambiguous, and contested, no true definition
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