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What is the meaning of sociology? |
a systematic study of human society, the study of social problems. |
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What is a sociological perspective? |
Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular, meaning seeing general patterns in the behaviour of particular people; Seeing the strange in the familiar, seeing the strangeness of the familiar decisions of our society; seeing society in our everyday lives, seeing how society shapes our "personal" decisions daily. |
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who is Auguste Comte? |
He is regarded as the founder of sociology, Auguste Comte also coined the term Altruism. |
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what is Altruism? |
Selflessness, Altruism is the concept that doing good by others and acting selflessly will in turn make you feel good/happy. |
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What is the importance of a global perspective? |
-where we live shapes the lives we lead -societies throughout the world are increasingly interconnected -many social problems that we face in Canada are far more serious elsewhere -thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves |
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what is the importance of applying sociological perspective? |
assessing the truth of "common sense", helps us see the opportunities and constraints in our lives, empowers us to be active participants in our society, and it helps us live in a diverse world. |
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What is a structural-functional approach? |
seeing society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. MACRO LEVEL ORIENTATION |
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What is a social-conflict approach? |
seeing society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change, which can break down into more specific approaches such as gender-conflict approach (focusing on conflict between men and women) or race-conflict approach (conflict between people of different races). MACRO LEVEL ORIENTATION |
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What is a symbolic-interaction approach? |
seeing society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals. MICRO LEVEL ORIETATION |
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what is the different between macro and micro level orientation? |
macro level orientation is a broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole, where as micro level orientation focuses up close on social interaction in specific situation. |
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what are the three research orientations in sociology? |
Positivist Sociology, Interpretive Sociology and Critical Sociology. |
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Positivist Sociology: what is reality? how do we conduct research? Corresponding theoretical approach? |
Positivist sociology sees society as an orderly system. Research is conducted using scientific orientation, data is empirical and quantitative and the researcher must try to be a neutral observer. The structural-functional approach is corresponding to this research orientation. |
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Interpretive Sociology: what is reality? how do we conduct research? corresponding theoretical approach? |
Interpretive sociology sees society as an ongoing interaction, individuals construct reality as they attach meaning to their behaviour. Research is focused on subjective meanings, data is qualitative and the researcher is a participant. The symbolic-interaction approach is the corresponding approach. |
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Critical Sociology: what is reality? how do we conduct research? corresponding theoretical approach? |
critical sociology sees society as patterns of inequality, the reality is that some categories of people dominate others. Research is guided by politics, uses research as a strategy to create social change and the research is an activist. the social-conflict approach is the corresponding approach. |
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What are ten questions you should ask yourself when conducting sociological research? |
What is your topic? what have others already learned? what exactly are your questions? what will you need to carry out research? are there ethical concerns? what method will you use? how will you record data? what does the data tell you? what are your conclusions? how can you share what you have learned? |
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What are the four research methods? |
experiment, survey, participant observation and existing sources. |
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What is the first step of research? |
Choosing which sources are dependent and independent. |
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what is the meaning of debunking and quality of mind? |
Looking beyond the surface into what's underneath without judgement. |
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What is anomie? |
a moral breakdown |
