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27 Cards in this Set
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Social Structure
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patterns of interaction among people in social relationships
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Perspective
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Your way of looking at something
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Positivism
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When a socioligist uses scientific obsevations and experimentation to study social behavior
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Sociology
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The scientific study of social behavior
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Latent Function
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One That is unintented and unrecognized
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Manifest Funtion
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One that is intented and recognized
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Sociological Imagination
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If you are able to see the relationship between events in your own life and events in society
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Social Statics
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Involves studying social stability and order
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Social Darwinism
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States that individuals should be allowed to find their own social class without outside interference
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Bourgeoisie
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Karl Marx's term for those people who own the means for producing wealth
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Proletariat
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Karl Marx's term for those people who work for the bourgeoisie and are paid just enough to stay alive
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Mechanical Solidarity
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Existed in preindustrial times when there was widespread consensus of values and beliefs
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Organic Solidarity
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In which there is social interdependency based on the highly specialized roles of the society's members
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Verstehen
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Understanding other people's social behavior by putting yourself in their place
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Dysfunction
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Those elements of a society that have negative consequences
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Functionalism
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Theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contributions of each part of a society
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Conflict
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The theoretical perspective that emphasizes conflict, competition, change, and constraint within a society
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Symbol
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Anything that is chosen to represent something
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Symbolic Interactionism
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States that people's behavior toward one another is based on mutually understood symbols
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Dramaturgy
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A method of presenting human interaction as theatrical performance
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Auguste Comte
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Father of sociology, needs to be a science based on knowledge on which we can be positive or sure. used scientific method
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Harriet Martineau
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Translated Compte's book. Saw link between slavery and womens oppresion. womens lack of economic power kept them dependent
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Karl Marx
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Great concern for the poor and the inequality between the rich and poor. introduced the idea of classes.
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Emile Durkheim
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Societies exist because of broad consensus or agreement among the members. mechanical and organic solidarity
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Max Weber
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Humans act on the basis of their own understanding of a situation. Vestehen. Rationalization-using knowledge, reason, and planning.
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Jane Addams
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Established hull house in chicago, Focused on problems caused by the imbalance of power among social classes
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W.E.B. DuBois
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First hand knowledge of segregation and racial discrimination. Fought racial stereotype that blacks were inferior.
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