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30 Cards in this Set
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Alienation
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People feeling life is meaningless, K.M.
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Anomie
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Social norms are absent or meaningless in a society; E.D.
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Auguste Comte
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As the father of Sociology; Sociology=Science or Positive Philosophy
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Conflict theory
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Society held together by social power; K.M.
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Dysfunction
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Actions with negative impacts on society;
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Functionalism
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Emile Durkheim; Cells of society work together to maintain the life of the society
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Functions
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Actions with positive impacts on society
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Harriet Martineau
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Translated the works of A.C.
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Jane Addams
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Hull House in Chicago, serving the needy. Noble Peace Prize 1931
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Latent functions
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Actions that are unintended/unrecognized by others; summer=vacations
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Manifest functions
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Actions that intended by others; Summer=farming
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Max Weber
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The concept of Veshsten, sympathetic understanding
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Mechanical solidarity
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Social solidarity based on shared values;E.D.
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Moral perspective
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Looking at religion and superstition for answers to phenomena
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Organic solidarity
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Social solidarity based on functional interdependence
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Perspectives
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Our idea of the relative importance of things
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Public activism
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Individuals and groups working for social change
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Rationalization
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The replacement of traditional thinking with reason and calculatory practice
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Scientific perspective
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The scientific approach to answer phenomena
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Sign
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Natural representation of something; smoke=fire
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Social interaction
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Actions amongst people, words, gestures, signals etc.
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Social power
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The ability to conform others even against their will
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Social Solidarity
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Collective conscience (mechanical and organic); E.D.
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Social structure
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The permanent components of social environment (the running river)
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Sociological imagination
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Ability to see the relationship between individual and societal forces; C.W.M
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Sociological viewpoints
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1. Science 2. Social structure 3. Social interaction 4 Social change
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Sociology
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The study of society; social structure and interaction
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Sociology’s 4 Realms
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1. Basic Science 2. Critical Sociology 3. Applied research 4 Public Activism
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Symbol
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A representation that stands for something; artificial Red=Stop
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Symbolic interaction
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The ability to communicate through symbol, everyday gestures
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