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What is macro-sociology?
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The study of large-scale societies.
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What is micro-sociology?
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The study of everyday life in social interactions.
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What does social construction of reality mean?
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The process by which people creatively shape reality through social interactions.
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What is Thomas theorem?
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Situations we define as real become real in their consequences.
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What is socialization?
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A lifelong social experience by which individuals construct their personal biography, assemble daily interactional rules and come to terms with the wider patterns of their culture.
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What does behaviorism say?
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Specific behavior patterns are not instinctive but learned .
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What is the id (Freud)?
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The human being’s basic drives that are unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction (pleasure principle).
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What is the ego (Freud)?
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A person’s conscious efforts to balance innate, pleasure-seeking drivers with the demands of society (‘reality principle’).
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What is the superego (Freud)?
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The operation of culture within the individual (why we can’t have everything we want).
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Whats is repression?
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Culture operates to control human drives.
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What is sublimation?
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The transformation of fundamentally selfish drives into socially acceptable activities.
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What is the central concept of mead?
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The self: The human capacity to be reflexive and take the role of others.
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What does social interaction involves ?
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Seeing ourselves as others see us → taking the roles of others. The self = reflective = reflexive
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What does generalized other mean?
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The widespread cultural norms and values we use as reference in evaluating ourselves.
-Ich bin ein guter Mensch- weil ich aus Höflichkeit für eine Oma im Bus aufstehe |
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What is looking-glass self?
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The image people have of themselves based on how they believe others perceive (warnehmen) them.
-z.B. Statussymbole -> arroganter Charakter -> sich toll fühlen |
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What re the 2 components the self has?
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1) the self is subject; we initiate social action (I)
Is impulsive 2) the self is object; we form impressions of ourselves by taking on the role of others (Me) is regulative |
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What is interaction order?
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What we do in the immediate presence of others we’re all actors performing on a stage.
- e.g. GG Highschool |
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What is dramaturgical analysis?
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The investigation (Erforschung) of social interaction in terms borrowed (übernommen) from theatrical performance.
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What is ethnomethodology?
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The study of the way people make sense of their everyday lives.
- breaking the rules example |
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What is conversational analysis?
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A rigorous set of techniques to technically record and then analyze what happens in everyday speech.
- Koversationsanalyse |
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What is tradition-directedness?
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A rigid (steif/starr) conformity (Übereinstimmung) to time-honored ways of living (Gemeinschaft).
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What is other-directedness?
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A receptiveness (Aufgeschlossenheit) to the latest trends and fashions, often expressed in the practice of imitating others.
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What does decentred mean?
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The process by which a centre, core or essence is destabilized and weakened
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What are body projects?
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The process of becoming and transforming a biological entity through social action.
-Self-presentation; give an impression. Functions of the dressed body |
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What is emotional labor?
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The management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display.
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