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44 Cards in this Set
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Name the Author:
Invitation to Society |
Peter L. Berger
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Sociological Imagination |
C. Wright Mills
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Communest Maifesto |
Karl Marx
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Suicide |
Emile Durkeim
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Society In America |
Harriet Martineau
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The Philadelpia Negro |
W.E.B. DuBois
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Megatrends |
John Naisbitt
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Future Shock |
Alvin Toffler
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According to Marx, what was a sociologists major task
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to analyze and explain conflict
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What is the major force driving social change?
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Conflict
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What were the two distinct classes in the Industrial Revolution?
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Bourgeosie and proletariat
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What did Marx believe to be the reason behind the explosion of technical innovation and the massive increase of goods during the Industrial Revolution?
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Profit
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Define Society
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A system of Social Interactions
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Explain the word system in the following:
Society is a system of social interactions |
Society is a system because it is composed of non-chaotic interactions. That is the people in a socity follow a set of often unspoken rules (social facts)
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Define Social interactions
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When people take one another into consideration., attach meaning to specific situations, interpert what is being said and respond accordingly.
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Give examples of unspoken rules in society.
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Answer may vary.
Forming a Line Classroom Conduct |
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True or false:
Social facts are imposed from birth. |
True
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When is the power of a social fact made known?
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When someone resists the social fact or when a person is introduced to a new set of social facts.
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True or false: The industrial revolution had no effect on the nature of work. It only affected the ways people interacted with each other.
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False.
The industrial revolution completely changed the nature of work and the way people interact. |
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Define Mechanization
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the addition of external sources of power such as oil or steam to hand tools and modes of transportation
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According to Durkiem, should you study the immediate circumstances leading to a suicide? Why or Why not?
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No. It is futile to study the the immediate circumstances leading to a suicide because there are too manyt causes and too many people commit suicide for different reasons.
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True or False:
DuBois defines suicide as a severing of relationships. |
False, Durkiem defined suicide as a severing of relationships.
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Define Egoistic in relation to suicide
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ties attaching the individual to society are weak.
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Define Altrustic [suicide]
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no individuality, strive to conform
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Define Anomic [suicide]
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state brought on by dramatic change in economic circumstances
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Define fatalistic [suicide]
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no hope of change, no chance of release
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Who studied the question:
"Why do people pursue goals? |
Weber
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what are the 4 kinds of social actions?
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Traditional, affectional, value-rational, instrumental
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What is Harriet Martinaeu best known for
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Her method of conducting research
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W.E.B Dubois dealt with which issue in sociology
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Double Consciousness
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Define Trend
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Direction of Social Change
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What are the 5 pure social sciences?
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Sociology, Psychology, Economy, Political Science, Anthropology
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What does content analysis study?
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Electronic printed Media (AKA NEWSPAPER)
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Which war serves as the roots to content analysis
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WWII
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Why did Naisbitt choose to study newspapers?
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The space in a newspaper is always the same, so in order to add anything something must first be removed. This means that a newspaper will always show only the most current news.
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Name the Author:
American Social Change |
Theodore Kaplow
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Name the current trend in the US
Manufacturing----> |
Manufactoring ----> desk jobs
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Name the current trend in the US
Industrial society ---> |
Information Society
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Name the current trend in the US
National economy ---> |
Global economy
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Name the current trend in the US
Institutional Health ---> |
Self Help
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Name the current trend in the US
Classrooms ---> |
Online Classes
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Name the current trend in the US
Representative Democracy ---> |
Participatory Democracy
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Name the current trend in the US
Hierarchies ---> |
Networking
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Name the current trend in the US
People and Jobs living in the North ----> |
People and jobs moving southward
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