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29 Cards in this Set
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sociological imagination
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C. Wright Mills. viewing the world in a wider context and putting putting subjectivity aside
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structuration
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how we shape our social world through individual actions and by which we are reshaped by society
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organic solidarity
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Durkheim. society as a set of independent parts that fit together and function as a whole
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anomie
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when norms lose hold over individual behavior
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functionalism
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society is functional when you maintain order/balance by maintaining shared beliefs and values
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postmodernism
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belief that society is no longer governed by history and progress
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ethnography
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first hand study of people
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values/norms
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ideas held by individuals/laws or rules that are generally followed
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ethnocentrism
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tendency to look at other cultures with view of your own culture
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Weber's 3 types of authority
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traditional: kings & queens, charismatic: individual who is voice of people, rational/legal: those who demonstrate knowledge/skill and are given authority
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socialization
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process where develop sense of social norms and values and achieve distinct sense of self
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social reproduction
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norms and values passed down generations, have social continuity over time
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social self
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self consciousness in human individuals
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agents of socialization
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family, peers, school, media, work
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social roles
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expected behavior of a person occupying a social position
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self-identity
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process of development where develop sense of self and relationship to world around us
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gender socialization
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how people learn gender roles
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Freud's id ego and superego
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primal needs, self needs, society's norms and rules
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social stratification
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existence of structured inequalities between groups in societies in terms of access to material rewards
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social stratification systems
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slavery, caste, feudal states, class status
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social mobility
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movement between individuals/groups between social positions
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intragenerational
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movement up/down social hierarchy within personal career
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intergenerational
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movement up/down social hierarchy within generations
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ethnicity
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cultural values and norms that distinguish one group from others
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race
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physical characteristics used to categorize large number of individuals
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institutional racism
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patterns of racism that become structures into existing social institutions in systematic manner
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displacement
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transferring of sentiments from true source to another object
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pluralism
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where all ethnic groups maintain independent identities but have same rights as ordinary citizens
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diaspora
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dispersal of ethnic groups from original homeland to foreign areas usually under unwanted circumstances
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