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who coined the phrase the sociological imagination
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C wright mills
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Define:
To describe peoples ability to see the impact of the social forces on their private lives |
Sociological imagination
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Sociological imagination
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To describe peoples ability to see the impact of the social forces on their private lives
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What is Durkheims study of suicide?
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that there are always outside reasons for sucides Durkheim broke suicides up into 3 catigories.
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What is the type of suicide that takes place when peoples lives are suddenly disrupted by a major event
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anomic
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what is the type of suicide that takes place when the nature of social life among people in certin groups
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Egoistic
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what is the type of suicide that takes place when ones alignment with a group overshadows them as a person, this is when one is over involved instead of under.
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Altruistic
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what are examples of social institutions
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Family Religion Government Education
Law |
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what is the prospective that explains society and social structure through an examination of the micro level, personal, day to day. More concerned about small groups of people and their behaviors
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Symbolic Interaction
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what is symbolic interaction
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society and social structure through an examination of the micro level, personal, day to day. More concerned about small groups of people and their behaviors
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what is the systematic study of human societies
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SOC
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what does soc explain
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it explains what goes on among people as individuals, group and societies and how social forces affect the way that people interact with one another
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what explains what goes on among people as individuals, group and societies and how social forces affect the way that people interact with one another
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soc
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what forces us to look outside ourselves to the external forces that shape our lives
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soc
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soc makes us do what?
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look outside ourselves to the external forces that shape our lives
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what is a status
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position
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what is a role
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what you do in your status or position and or a set of behavioral expectations associated with a particular position
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what is a status or position taken on at birth
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Ascribe status
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what is a status or position taken on voluntary or earned
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Achieved Status
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what is a set of people who interact semi regularly and are continous of common thread.
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group
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what is a organization?
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has a higherchy like a collage
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What is an institution? and what are examples
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like a family or the law or somthing
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What is a population of people who share land
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Society
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What is the Conflict prospective?
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all about have and have nots
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what point of view is this? everything has a place if not it will eventually die off.
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Structural Functionalist
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what is a prospective which places strong emphasis on the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction
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Symbolic Interactionist
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what allows the world to seem smaller and allow more opportunities
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Globalization
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Milligrams experiment
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getting shocked
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what Variable is constant
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independent
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waht variable is varied
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dependent
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what is the difference between Qualitative vs.
quantitative |
(non-numbers)
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what is reasearch without direct contact
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Unobtrusive
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what is Ethnocentrism
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judging others
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highly codified, formal, systematized norm a (taboo
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Mores
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informal norm that is mildly punished when violated
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Folkways
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standard of judgement by which people decide on goals and outcomes
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Values
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what is the term used when refering to social punishment
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Sanctions
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what type of cluture is defined by artifacts of a society which represent adaptations to the social and physical environment
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Material culture
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what type of cluture is defined by knowlage beliefs customs values morals and symbols that are shared by members of society and makes it different
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Non material cluture
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what is a click within a cluture
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sub cluture
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what is the term given to a group that has the same language values beliefs rules behaviors that characterize a society
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Culture
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what is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself
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Self fulfilling prophesy
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what is An analysis technique where written material is broken down into meaningful units using carefully designed rules
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Content Analysis
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what is is an area of sociology concerned with the visual dimensions of social life
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Visual Sociology
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what is the aspect of history, and of semiotics, that is the study of how knowledge of the past, recent or distant
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Historical Analysis
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what is Identity
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is more of the internalized motivation for carrying out the role
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the following describes what prospective?
social environment strongly influences our behavior |
sociological perspective
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what prospective addresses the social structure in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely, norms, customs, traditions, and institutions.
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Structural functionalism
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Course evaluations are a
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survay
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what is it called when We see ourselves through the eyes of other people, even to the extent of incorporating their views of us into our own self-concept
and who came up with this |
Looking glass self
and Charles Horton Cooley |
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what is Socialization
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a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
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what is a A mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach
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stigma
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what is the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
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dramatyrgy
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what is marriage outside of a specific group especially as required by custom or law
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exogamy
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marriage within a specific group as required by custom or law
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endogamy
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what is a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives
or traditionally, a group of relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption, living in close proximity or together, especially if three generations are involved |
extended family
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what is a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
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nuclear family
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what are All the persons who live in the same individual residence at a given time
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household
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what is dominance through threat of punishment and violence
dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government the doctrine of an absolute being |
absolutism
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what is
Relativism is the idea that some elements or aspects of experience or culture are relative to, i.e., dependent on, other elements or aspects. |
Relativism
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what must occur for something to be deviant
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norm violation
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why are things deviant
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because we are socialized to think that certain things are deviant
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what describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations
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devance
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that deviance is not a quality of the act because it is the result of personality factors associated with committing deviance. It focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms. The theory is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them, and is associated with the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping.
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labeling theory
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