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29 Cards in this Set
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sociological imagination
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Seeing the relationship between “personal problems” and “public issues”
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social structure
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regularities in behavior and relationships
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structuration
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hum societies are reconstructed at every moment by the very building blocks that compose them
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globalization
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the growth of world interdependence
(ex: where clothing was made) |
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theory
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involves abstract interpretations that can explain a wide variety of situations
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theoretical approach
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a perspective on social live derived from a particular theoretical tradition
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social facts
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aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals
(ex state of economy/religion) |
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organic solidarity
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for a society to have a continuing existence over time its specialized institutions must function as an integrated whole
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social constraint
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the conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups and societies
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division of labor
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gradually replacing religion as the basis of our social cohsion and proving organic solidarity to modern societies
*people become more dependent on each other |
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anomie
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feeling of aimlessness or despair provoked by modern social life
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materialist conception of history
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it is not the ideas or values human beings hold that are the main sources of social change, rather it is prompted by economic influences
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capitalism
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a class system in which conflict is inevitable because it is in the interest of the ruling class to exploit the working class and in the interests of the workers to overcome exploitation
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bureaucracy
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large organization divided into jobs based on specific functions and staffed by officials ranked according to hierarchy
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symbolic interactionism
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the study of language in analyzing the social world
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symbol
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the word that represents the object
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functionalism
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social events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform
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manifest functions
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those known to and intended by the participants in a social activity
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latent functions
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consequences of that activity of which participants are unaware
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dysfunctional
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when two groups clash
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marxism
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body of thought deriving its main elements from Marx's ideas
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power
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capability of individuals or groups to make their own interests count, even when others resist
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ideology
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justify the actions of the powerful
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feministy theory
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a sociological perspective that emphasizes the centrality of genter
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rational choice approach
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if yuo could have only a single varialbe to explain society, self interest would be the best
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postmodernism
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classic social thinkers' idea that history has a shape that collapsed
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thories of the middle range
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rather than attempting to create grand theoretical schemes, develop more modest theories
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miscrosociology
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study of everyday behavior during face-to-face interaction
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macrosociology
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analysis of large sclae social systems- longterm processes of change
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