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47 Cards in this Set
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W.I Thomas
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definition of a situation
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Dialectic Process
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A process adn way of thinking Marx thesis anti thesis and synthesis
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August Comte
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Given the title of Father of Sociology.
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Reification
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Marx Thingification- coming ot believe that humanly created forms are natural, universal, and absolute. And as a result take that form.
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Emile Durkheim
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Father of Sociology: Modern: First Professional Sociolist. Funcitionalist famous for "Le Suicide"
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Indexicality
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Meaning is highly context sensitive.
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Alienation
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One of Marx's contradictions to capitalism.
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Symbolic Interactionism?
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Society uses symbols to interact with eachother.
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Erving Goffman
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Dramaturgy
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What is Functionalism?
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Society has structures that have functions. These structures fuction interdependently to promote equilibrium.
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C Wright Mills
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Power Elite
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Dramaturgy?
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What you see in a theater is exactly what goes on in real life. We are all acters and actresses on stage.
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William James
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Paragmatist, first person ot talk about "self"
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What is Conflict Theory?
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Who gets what,why,and how? Society isn't about everyone being happy, it's about one group controling another.
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Georg Simmel
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Sociologies marginal man: Social forms
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Social Norms?
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Social exceptable and agreed upon behavior.
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Collective conscience
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Durkheim: Totality of beliefs common to average citizens.
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Social Status?
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Socially defined status.
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George Homans
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Father of Social Exchange
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Social Exchange Theory?
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People are constantly exchanging social goods.
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Max Weber
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Argued with the ghost of Marx and came up with the idea of life chances.
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Social Role?
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Set of expected behaviors that go along with social lables.
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Impression Mangement
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Goffmans personal front.
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Reflexivity
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Social reality simultaneously defines what it creates
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Karl Marx
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Conflict Theroist who wrote Communist Manifesto.
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Micro Level Theory
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How society effects the individual.
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Peter Blau
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he tried ot make social exchange more macro. Indirect Exchange
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Ethnomethodology?
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The study of people's methods and sense making machinery.
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Harold Garfinkel
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Ethnomethodlogy: Reciprocity of perspectives, Suspension of doubt, Typifications, Stocks of Knowledge, Accounts, Glossing, Let it Pass, Ceteris Paribus, Et Cetera Clause.
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Social Institution?
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A collection of norms, groups, and status that have differnet sociological implications. Ex: church.
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Talcott Parsons
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AGIL
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Social Group?
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Group of people with shared circumstances, interests, values, etc...
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Herbert Marcuse
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Wrote a book called "one dimensional man". We define ourselves by what we own. We try to get to that ruling class, but we will never get there.
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Macro Level Theory?
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Large scale looking at society as a whole.
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Ralf Dahrendorf
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Concerned with authority and power and their distinction. Said authority was legitimate and power was illegitimate
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Robert Merton?
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Strain Theory. Manifest function, latent and dysfunction.
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Alfred Schutz
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He is the link between Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology. Made the taken for graned world the object of study.
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Herbert Blumer
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Meads most influential student. Conied the phase, "S.I".
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Herbert Spencer
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Wrote principles of Sociology Three problems with socity: Distribuitive, Regulatory, and Operative.
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Charles Horton Cooley
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Looking glass self
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George Herbert Mead
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Father of Symbolic Interactionsim
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Claude Henri de Saint Simon
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Introduced Positivism. Most important person who influenced Comte.
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Verstehn
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Understanding.
Aktuelles verstehen: direct observational. Erklarken verstehen: explanatory understanding. |
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Cultural Hegemony
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Sameness Cultural leadership exercised by the ruling class
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Social Facts
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The outside factors that influence you. Exteranl to the person. Ways of thinking feeling and acting that are external to theindividual but endowed with the power of coerction over him or her
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Social evolution
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Society is dynamic and changes over time.
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Generalized other
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Internalized role of society. Mead concept of the game stage
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