Sociology Midterm

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Define Sociological Imagination

(2 definitions)

Back 1

1. The vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the winder society.

2. The application of imaginative though to the asking and answering of sociological questions.

Front 2

What is sociological perspective?

Back 2

How we view social phenomena

Front 3

Define Social Structure

Back 3

The underlying regularities or patterns in how people behave in their relationships with one another.

Front 4

Define Social Construction

Back 4

An idea or practice that a group of people agree exist.

Front 5

Define Socialization

Back 5

The social processes through which children develop an awareness of social norms and values and achieve a distinct sense of self.

Front 6

Describe social Order

Back 6

Social Order is how people behave in society, and what is classified as right or wrong in society, and how people behave according to society's rights and wrongs.

Front 7

What did Emile Durkheim contribute to sociology? And what was his approach?

Back 7

- Had a structuralist approach. States it is individuals who act, but they do not act on a purely individual basis. He believe sociologists should study social facts as things.

- Studied suicide

Front 8

What are the two divisions of labour in society? Describe them.

Back 8

Mechanical - which characterizes earlier or traditional societies, where the division of labour is relativity limited.

Organic - modern societies, with a highly developed division of labour.

Front 9

List and describe the 4 types of suicide

Back 9

1. Egoistic - reflects a sense of not belonging

2. Altruistic - characterized by a sense of being overwhelmed by a groups goals and beliefs

3. Anomic Suicide - Moral confusion and lack of social direction

4. Fatalistic - people would rather die than live within their society

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What was Max Weber's Theory of social action?

Back 10

Distinguished social action from social behaviour, noting that social action must be understood through how individuals subjectively relate to one another.

Front 11

What is a manifest function?

Back 11

Those known to, and intended by the participants in a social activity

Front 12

What is a latent function?

Back 12

Consequences of that activity of which participants are unaware.

Front 13

What is symbolic Interactionism and who created it?

Back 13

George Herbert. All interactions between humans involve an exchange of symbols.

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What is Rational Choice theory? and Who created it?

Back 14

Max Weber. He though all behaviour could be divided into 4 categories and that self interest is the best way to explain society.

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List the 4 categories of behaviour described in Rational Choice Theory.

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1. Behaviour oriented toward higher values

2. Behaviour oriented toward habit

3. Behaviour oriented toward affect

4. Behaviour oriented toward self interst

Front 16

Define Microsociology

Back 16

Study of everyday behaviour during face to face interaction.

Front 17

Define Macrosociology

Back 17

Analysis of large scale social systems

Front 18

List the 7 steps of a research process

Back 18

1. Defining the research problem

2. Reviewing the evidence

3. Making the problem percise

4. Working out a design

5. Carrying out the research

6. Interpreting the results

7. Reporting the findings

Front 19

Define Ethnography

Back 19

A research method in which first hand studied of people, using participant observation, or interviewing takes place.

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