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24 Cards in this Set
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Sociological perspective
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Directs one to see the link between society and their behaviors
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Sociological imagination
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The ability to apply reason and see the links between personal and social
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Social fact
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Patterned ways of behaving thinking or feeling generated at the personal level and observable at the societal level
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Emile Durkheims
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Studies of suicide believes in anomie-society provides little support
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Aguste Comte
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coined the term sociology
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functionalist perspective
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views society as a stable and orderly system with inter related parts
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Social structure
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is made up of the stable organized patterns of social relationships existing within a society or particular group
Provides the context within which we interact others |
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Parsons and Merton
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contemporary functionalist theorist who further refined the functionalist perspective
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Merton
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came up with Manifest and latent functions
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Manifest functions
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intended, expected, consequence
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latent function
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largely unintended consequence
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Conflict perspective
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Views society as groups with clashing interests who engage over a struggle of scarce social resources
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Conflict perspective
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Views social conflict as an inevitable and permanent feature of society which has beneficial consequences and has the possibility of social change that will lead to a better society
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Karl Marx
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elaborated on the conflict perspective with bourgeoisie and proletariat
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bourgeoisie
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Capitalist class owns key economic resources, the means of production
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proletariat
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The working class
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Macro level
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Examines social institutions and large scale social processes (Functionalist and conflict perspective)
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Functionalist theory attempts to explain what
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social stability
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Conflict theory attempts to explain what
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social change
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symbolic interaction perspective
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Views society as the product of everyday interaction between people and groups
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George Herbert Mead
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Explored the social influences on the development of sense of self
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Charles Horton Cooley
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He came up with the looking glass self
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Looking Glass Self
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sense of self is based on how we think others see us
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Erving Gaffman
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Dramaturgical analysis is what he calls his approach to understanding social life
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