Sociology

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Socialization

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An unconscious process by which a new born child learns the values, beliefs, rules and regulations of society or internalizes the culture in which it is born.

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process

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Sociological Imagination

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Enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography.

History because society is located on a broad stream of events.
Biograph refers to the specific experiences which give individuals their orientation to life.

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Macro theories

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Large scale patterns of society.

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Micro theorist

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Small scale, face to face oriented

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Goal Attainment

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Involves the need to set goals or standards for human behaviour and determining the means through which they can be achieved.

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set goals

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Adaptation

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The ability to create or provide the physical necessities of an institutional life which will help me to achieve my goals.

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Integration

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Having to feel apart of any institution one way of achieving this is to give them something they hold in common. ( values or beliefs)

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vital for continued harmony of that institution.

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Pattern Maintenance

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The development of social control mechanisms that serve to manage tensions, motivate people and resolve interpersonal conflict within an institution.

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Social Solidarity

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The feeling that we belong to a common society.
That we have certain basic values with people and common culture.

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Togetherness

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Collective Conscience

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The external expression of the collective will of people living in society.

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Error Refications

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This is treating something that is not alive or not human as it eere

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Durkheim's statement about societies having personalities.

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Who was the Father of Sociology

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Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte- Theory

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In sociology there has to be harmony and a function, he was a structural functionalist.

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Emile Durkheim

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Father of modern sociology- He treated society as a reality in his own right.

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Who were the functionist

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Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Auguste Comte

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Functionalist Perspective

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various parts of society are seen as interrelated, and taken together they form a complete system.

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Emile Durkheim Views

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(a) the interest which dictates social activity is largely the interest of the group and not the interest of the individual, in fact the individual is subordinate to the group;

(b). furthermore, sociology is concerned with society and not with the individual, and that the individual is a creation of society and not the other way around; and

(c). he identifies two main types of societies. Firstly, one based on mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity.

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Mechanical solidarity

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a society based on similarity where all the people have the same kinds of beliefs , sentiments, and experiences; it is a simple homogenous society, e.g. traditional primitive societies

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Organic Solidarity

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this society is about differentiation. It is large and complex, with people having different sentiments, attitudes and outlooks. It is an industrial society with a tendency towards specialization, e.g. modern society.

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What are the critiques of Functionalism

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(a) he ignores the fact that people are able to make choices. He ignores the creative potential of the individual.

(b) Consensus (stability and order) is problematic as the basis for social life. Durkheim does not address conflict in society

(c) Functionalism ignores the revolutionary changes in society.

(d) Functionalism supports the status quo.

(e) It is a conservative theory which gives a rosy portrait of society.