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17 Cards in this Set
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Staples Thesis |
Contends that Canada's development was based on the exploitation of raw materials sent back to European countries to satisfy their industrial needs. These materials were sent abroad refined into more valuable commodities (furniture, cars) and retuned to Canada at vastly inflated prices. (Created by Innis) |
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Structural Functional Approach
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Society is a system of interrelated parts that are relatively stable Each part works to keeps to society operating in a orderly way Members have general agreement about whats morally right |
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Social Conflict Approach |
Society is a system of social inequality
Society operates to benefits some some categories of society and harm others Social inequality causes conflict that leads to social change |
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Symbolic Interaction Approach |
Society is an ongoing process People interact in countless settings using symbolic communications The reality that people experience is variable and changing |
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Feminist Approach |
A gender based hierarchy where men dominate women in all realms of social life including family religion, politics, economy, and education |
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Postmodernist Approach |
Shifting patterns of social order, institutions and personal relations about which truths and assumptions are subject to change |
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Bergers 4 dimensions |
1.Decline of small, traditional communities
2.Expansion of personal choice 3.Increasing social diversity 4.Orientation towardthe future and growing awareness of time |
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Theory of Mass Society |
Whereprosperity and bureaucracy have weakened traditional social ties |
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Durkheim |
•Emphasison social bonds (the glue that holds society together) •Keyconcepts and ideas include: mechanical and organic solidarity; anomie; textalso covers social fact, division of labour. |
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Weber |
•Emphasison shift from traditional ways of thinking to rational ways of thinking •Keyconcepts and ideas include: tradition, rationality, disenchantment ofmodernity; text also covers rationality and Protestantism. •Wealso read Weber’s ‘The Disenchantment of Modern Life’ – key idea disenchantmentof modern life due to rise of rationality (via science). |
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Class Society |
A capitalist society with pronounced social stratification
(Karl Marx) |
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Three Research questions in Sociology |
What is reality? How do we conduct research? What is the corresponding theoretical approach? |
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Harriet Martineau |
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Socialization |
•The lifelongsocial experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learnculture. |
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Mead's Theory of the self |
•Thepart of an individual’s personality composed of self-awareness and self-image•Accordingto Mead, the self developsthrough social experience.The development ofself proceeds through different stages. |
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Total Institution |
•Asetting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulatedby an administrative staff |
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Resocialization |
•Breaking downinmate’s existngidentity (e.g. give up personal possessions, standardization of clothes) •Buildingof a new self through rewards and punishments |
