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42 Cards in this Set
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Society
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Population of people living in the same geographic area who share a culture and a common identity and members who fall under the same political authority.
EX:Bryce & Jenn living |
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Sociology
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Scientific study of societies and human behavior in groups.
EX:What we are doing now |
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Social Structure
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Society/Culture
Social Institutions Organizations Groups Statuses/Roles |
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Social Imagination
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Ability to see the impact of cultural and historical processes in our private lives.
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Individual
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You and I and our personal lives
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What does sociology explain?
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-Does not predict at the individual level.
-Sociology is concerned with likelihood and average experiences. -It focuses on groups and populations. |
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Durkheim
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Used the com partitive method to study suicide.
He found patterns in suicide based on religion, marital status and parenthood. |
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Three types of suicide
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Anomic Suicide
Egoistic Suicide Altruistic Suicide |
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Anomic Suicide
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Accures when people lives are suddenly disruptive by a major social event.
EX: Depressions & Wars |
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Egoistic Suicide
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Type of suicide that occurs in settings where the individual is emphasized over group or community connections
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Altruistic Suicide
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Type of suicide that occurs where ties to the group or community are considered more important than individual identity.
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Groups
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Set of people who interact more or less regularly and conscious of their identity as a unit.
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Three Types of Groups
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Dyad
Triad Coalition |
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Dyad
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Two people
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Triad
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Three people
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Coalition
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Sub group of a triad formed when two members unite against the third
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Values
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Standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes.
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Macro Level
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focus on social institutions and how society influences the individual
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Micro Level
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Focuses on interactions between individuals and how societal characteristics reflect the perceptions of individuals.
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Social Structure in global context
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Globalization is the process through which peoples lives all around the world become increasingly interconnected.
-Economically -Politically -Environmentally -Culturally |
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3 perspectives on social order
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Structural -functionalist perspective
Conflict perspective Symbolic interaction ism |
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Structural functionalist perspective
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Society is like an organism with parts working in harmony to "survive"
Macro Truly dysfunctional parts will gradually cease to exist. Weakness, tautological and does not address power differential or inequality or social change. (Pointer Finger) |
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Conflict Perspective
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Macro
Emphasizes power differentials dominance and inequality. Key theorist Marx, Mills, Dahrendorf Change is inevitable Societies are competitive arenas where groups are in a constant struggle for resources. Some groups benefit more from existing social arrangements than other groups and will exercise their power to maintain the status-quo i |
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Symbolic Interactionism
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Micro
Seeks to understand society by examining day to day interactions of people. Symbols and assigning meaning to situations. Face to face social interaction meaning rather than function. lived experience Key Theorists Mead, Blumer, Goffman |
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Science
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is the process of systematic empiricism guided by theoretical frames.
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Epistemology
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The study of knowledge
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Probabilistic
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Capable of identifying only those forces that have high likelihood of influencing human action.
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Indicator
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A way to try to identify certain concepts
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Quantitative
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Sociological research based on the collection of numerical data that utilizes statistical analysis
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Qualitative
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Some psychologists collect non numerical information that describes people and actions in social life.
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Field Research
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Researches directly observes people in their natural settings
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Theory
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is set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life
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Survey Research
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Data collected through questionnaire or interviews.
EX: Can measure things such as attitudes or values that can not be observed. |
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Unobtrusive Research
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does not have direct contact with subjects
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Experiment
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The use of experimental and control groups usually in a lab to test the effect of one variable on another variable.
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Social construction of reality
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the process through which remembers of society discover make known and reaffirm and altar collective versions of facts knowledge and truth.
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Culture
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Shared beliefs values behaviors and material objects among remembers of a group or society.
Material, I can touch it Non Material, beliefs and time |
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Subcultures
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Values behaviors and physical artifacts of a group that distinguish it from a larger culture.
EX teenagers, gangs |
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Mores
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Highly Confined formal systematized norms that bring severe punishment when violated.
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Folk Ways
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Informal norms that are mildly punished when violated.
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Sanctions
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Direct social response to some behavior.
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Ethnocentrism
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The tendency to evaluate other cultures using ones culture as a standard.
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