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Suicide rates are related to which of the following? |
Age, time of the year, and profession |
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Today, Dr. Fuentes will introduce her sociology students to the three major theoretical perspectives through which sociologists view the world. Dr. Feuentes will be lecturing on: |
Functionalist, Conflict, Symbolic- Interactionist |
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Michael views society as an unequal system that bring about conflict and change. Michael's beliefs are in life with: |
conflict theory |
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Gary believes that society is best viewed as a system of interrelated parts. Gary's beliefs are in line with: |
Functionalism |
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Gwendolyn's research focuses on how students interact with others in their everyday lives on campus. Gwendolyn's research is in line with: |
Symbolic interactionism |
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Katie's research focuses on sexist patterns that limit women's opportunities for promotion in Fortune 500 companies. Katie's research is in line with: |
Gender- inequality |
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Lola is one of the richest women in her town. She owns the most technologically advanced home with all the latest gadgets and gizmos. Yet, Lola is still not satisfied. She wants to buy more products to make her life even better. This reflects which of the following American values? |
Material comfort |
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Each morning, Raymond the custodian raises the American Flag at Abraham Lincoln High School in Buffalo, New York. This represents which of the following American Values? |
Mores |
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A growing number of women in the United States are turning to plastic surgery for face lifts, breast implants, and tummy tucks. This represents which of the following American values? |
Physical fitness and youthfulness |
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In Japan, the goals of the group are considered more important than the wants and needs of the individual. This represents: |
In group |
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In United States, students are taught to raise their hands and wait to be called on before speaking out in the classroom. This rule for appropriate behavior is an example of |
Norms |
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Table manners are informal norms based on social expectations. As such, table manners are a form of: |
Folkways |
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The professor lectures in all of his classes. Being a lecturer is the professor's: |
Role |
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Martina is an Honors Student. Honors Student is an: |
Achieved status |
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When Marcia is arrested, she anticipates that the officers will handcuff her but treat her with respect. These are Marcia's _____ an arresting officer. |
Role expectations. |
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Veronica is angry that the sales clerk did not offer to help her while she shopped for new shoes. Veronica tells the store manager that the sales clerk did not do what was expected of her. Veronica is evaluation the sale clerk's: |
Role professor |
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Aaron is a politician, son, father, brother, husband, coach, and a neighbor. All these together make up Aaron's: |
Status |
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Why study Sociology? |
Opens up your mind. Think before you speak.
Helps see complex connection between your own lives and larger.
Helps understand large social grouping that shares geographical territaty as we do
Understand in which the lives of all people are intertwine closely. |
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Understand Sociological Imagination: |
Wright Mills in 1959 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology |
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Understand the origins of the sociological thinking/Sociology and the Age of Enlightenment: |
Emphasized the individual possesion of critical thinking and was skeptical of religion
Enlightenment was dominated by a group of thinkers recerred to as the philosophers
Women continued to the movement through the salons, or open houses,held to stimulate discussion and debate. |
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Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Herbert Spencer, Emilie Durkheim, and Karl Marx: |
Founders of Sociology. |
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Understand The Beginnings of Sociology in the United States |
Every social scientists tended to belief the evolution of culture was based on nature, a concept originating with Charles Darwin's on the origin of species. |
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Understand the Three great technological revolutions that have transformed society and cultural life: |
1- Agriculture revolution 2-Industrial revolution 3- Information revolution
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Types of Societies: |
1-Hunting/ gathering- Is one in which people make their living by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild/ and fruit, all with simple technologies
2- Pastoral - depends on domestication of animals
3- Horticulture- Tools to grow crops
4- Agrarian- Relies on crops, plows
5- Postindustrial- Newly emerging
6- Industrial- Economy |
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Where does culture come from? |
Learned set of beliefs, values, norms, and material goods. Shared by members of society. |
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Social construction: |
The process by which individuals creatively shape reality through social interaction |
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What is Thomas Theorem |
The way an individual views a situation will influence the outcome of that situation.
Situations that are defined as real in their consequences
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Dramaturgical Analysis |
The "presentation of self"
Was developed by Erving Goffman(1922-1982, Consists of the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance
Presentation of self: a person's efforts to create specific impressions in the minds of others
Performance have back and front regions. |
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Structural functionalist approach/ social interaction |
Approach emphasizes the structure of everyday social interaction and recognizes social interaction as being basic to the proper functioning of contemporary society |
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Conflict perspective/ structured: |
Society is structured, but emphasizes that roles, statuses, and institutions do not necessarily exist for the good of society. Instead they often used by superordinate to exploit and dominate subordinates and well as to maintain and perpetuate health, wealth, power , and privilege |
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Symbolic interactionist / social institutions |
They argue that society is sun of interactions of individuals and groups.
Macro level analysis: focuses on small group
Interaction- communication between two people
Symbols- something that meaningfully represents something else
Subjective reqity |
