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What is Social Science?
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-The study of human society and of individual relationships in society
-study of social behavior |
society and individ
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Traditional Ways of Knowing
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1-Revelation
2-Tradition 3-Authority 4-Logic 5-Common Sense |
5 of them CARTL acronym
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Sociological Imagination
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C. Wright Mills coined the term, Abiltiy to understand the relationship between peoples personal life (micro perspective) & the social forces that surround them (macro perspective)
-connecting the two perspectives, and ability to place their life into world/history/society --> Having S.I. leads to a better control of life. |
Mills, Micro and Macro
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Role Theory
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George Herbert Mead
-the individual learns about society, he or she learns what sorts of behaviors are expected by people in different situations, or role in that society |
Others Expectations...
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Social Perspectives
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awareness towards the world, enables people to understand their life better
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Bad teeth essay
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Social Map
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Peter Berger coined the phrase
"If we are aware of social forces we will understand our own actions and behaviors better" Determinants: gender, age, ethnicity, religion, culture, nationality, race, social class, historical background -We are born into our place on the social map |
Berger
Race religion culture gender sex |
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Modern Science: A means of explanation...
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-nature is patterned
-nature can be exposed through empirical evidence -phenomena in nature have a cause & effect relationships -nature can be understood by reason...so that science can lead to progress & positive changes in our lives -science is open, objective and changeable. |
empirical
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Looking Glass Theory
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Charles Horton Cooley
Peoples self identities are largely formed by the way other people react to them, through a process of "social feedback" |
Cooley
I am what i think you think I am. |
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Epistemology
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Study of knowledge & how it is validated...
Scientific method; there is order in nature |
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Durkheim
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-Argues that society can drive someone to suicide, not always the individual...
-If one can not place themselves on the social map, this is a socialogical flaw and he believed led to suicide. |
Anomic Suicide
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Micro perspective
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A more individual perspective, subjective deals w/ the immediate conflict rather than the big patterns
Deals w/ individual perspectives of reality |
individual
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Macro Perspective
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looking at the big picture; at a large cultural/social level
assumes that in any society you can find larger influential forces |
big picture
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Projective Technique
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any personality test designed to yield information about ones personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambigous objects or situations, to expose the subjective
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personality test
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Egoistic Suicide
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Durkheim:
-individual shuts themselves off from other human beings -tends to happen in more modern societies |
Durkheim, inner
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Anomic Suicide
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Durkheim:
-when the person believes that the world has fallen apart around them -tends to happen in more modern societies |
Durkheim, outer
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Altruistic Suicide
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Durkheim:
-springs from a great loyalty to a cause -tends to happen more w/ traditional societies -stems from honor and prestige |
Durkheim, ie Japanese generals
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Interactionalism
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Mead
Individuals in face-to-face interaction create social consensus -focus on "symbols"...not physical actions -believe our personality is shaped by our social interactions -key concepts: interpretation, consensus, symbols, shared expectations, socially created reality |
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Functionalism
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a system of interelated parts
- people are shaped by society to perform important functions for society -key concepts: integrity, interdependence and stability |
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