Sociology-Unit 1

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bourgeoisie

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to own the means of production in industrial society

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conflict perspective

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a view of society tha is composed of groups with clashing interests who engage in a struggle over control of valuable social resources

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functionalist perspective

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a view of society that it is relatively stable system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts

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industrialization

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the process by wihich societies are transformed from agricultural-based economic activity

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latent function

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the unintended and unrecognized consequences of an activity or social institution

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macro level

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a focus on the social intitutions and large-scale social processes that shape society as a whole

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manifest function

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the intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequenzes of an activity or social institution

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micro-level

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a focus on the dynamics and meanings of face-to-face interactions between people and small groups

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proletariat

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people who own only their labor power, which they sell to the bourgeoisie to earn a living

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social dysfunction

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the undesirable consequences of an institution or an activity for the social system

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social facts

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patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual

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social structure

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the stabel, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society

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society

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a large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose

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sociology

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systematic study of human society and social interaction

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sociological perspective

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ability to see the general in the particular

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symbolic-interaction perspective

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view of society as the ongoing product of the everday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups

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theory

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set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related

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theoretical perspective

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a basic overall image of paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society

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urbanization

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the process by which and increasing proportion of a society's population lives in cities insteas of rural areas

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Berger

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sociological perspective
1963

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Durkheim

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social facts, sociological imagination, 1964a (to see and understand to social facts) divorce/migration rates

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Durkheim

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1964b-suicide study-private/solitary. Patterns-Religions/social weakness

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Urbanization

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process by which and increasingproportion of a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas

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Parsons & Merton

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refined funtionalist perspective/ latent/manifest wedding-legally join a couple, is manifest-reunion is latent

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Marx

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conflict perspective-capitalist class(owners)(bourgeoisie)/working class(laborers) proletariat

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Mead & Cooley

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symbolic-interacion perspective:social influences on the development of self & the looking glass self

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Goffman

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symbolic-interactionist; his approach to understandin social life dramaturgical analysis(actors playing out roles on the social stage)