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25 Cards in this Set
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Sociology
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Science that studies humans so society and social behavior
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Social Perspective
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social contexts in which people live and how that contexts influences a persons life
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Auguste Comte
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Founder of sociology
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Social Static
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Doesn't change
Example: Government form |
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Social Dynamic
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Does change
Example: Fashion |
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Harriet Martineau
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The first feminist sociologist
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Harriet Martineau
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drew an analogy between slavery and women
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Herbert Spencer
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coined the term "survival of the fittest"
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Social Darwinism
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Let the poor die off so only the fittest can survive
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Karl Marx
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said there would always be conflict between the have and the have nots
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Bourgeoisie
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own the means of production
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Proletariat
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own their own labor
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Emile Durkheim
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said society exsists bc of agreement to follow the rules to keep society stable
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mechanical solidarity
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social pressure for conformity (traditions; family)
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organic solidarity
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social interdependency; society depends on goods and services
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Max Weber
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interested in personal meaning people attach to their behavior and the behavior of others
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verstehen
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being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes
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Jane Adams
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first social worker
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Jane Adams
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founded Hull House in Chicogo
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Jane Adams
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first american woman and only sociologist to recieve a nobel peace prize
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W.E.B Du Bois
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NAACP
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functionalist perspective
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society is a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system
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Herbert Spencer/Emile Durkheim
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supported functionalist perspective
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conflict perspective
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forces in sociatey that promote competition and change
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symbolic interactionist perspective
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sutdies how people interact with one another in society
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