Sociology Midterm

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sigmund freud

Back 1

elements of personality

1)id

2)ego

3)super ego

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william graham sumner

Back 2

folkway and mores

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august comte

Back 3

positivism and his 3 stages

1)theological

2)metaphysical

3)scientific

-the "father of sociology" who saw understanding how society operates as a major goal of the study of sociology.

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emile durkeim

Back 4

suicide/structural-functionalism

-studied suicide rates among varies categories of people, and concluded that those with low social integration were more prone to suicide.

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karl marx

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social conflict theory

-he developed the social conflict paradigm after noting the deep difference b/w the working class and the class of the owners of factories and businesses, arguing that social change should be the goal of sociology, not mere understanding of how society works.

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gerhard & jean lenski

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sociocultural-evolution

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jean piaget

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cognitive development

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lawrence kolhberg

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moral development

1)post conventional

2)pre

3)conventional

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william ogburn

Back 9

cultural lag

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max weber

Back 10

value-free approach, verstehen

-keep your bias out of your research

-compared social patterns in diff times and places, relying on the "ideal type" and calling pre-industrialized society "traditional" while modern society "rational" and in so doing, he concluded that modern society generates alienation.

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herbert spencer

Back 11

compared society to the human body

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george h. mead

Back 12

social behaviorism

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melvin kohn

Back 13

agents of socialization, the family

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robert k. merton

Back 14

manifest and latent functions

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sociology

Back 15

the study of the human behavior

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theory

Back 16

1) structure of fundalism

2) social conflict theory

3) symbolic interactionism

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4 perspectives

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1) seeing the general in the particular

~strange general patterns of behavior of particular individuals.

2) seeing the strange in the familiar

~strange idea that society shapes what we think and what we do in a patterned way.

3) seeing the choices in our everyday lives

~understand social structure of the group or society directly effects individuals and members.

4) seeing sociologically: marginality in crisis

~marginality in crisis (3 people)

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marginal voices (3)

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1) Harriet Martineau

2) Jane Addams

3) W.E.B. DuBois

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Harriet Martineau

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translated the writings of auguste comte from french to english, wrote on the evils of slavery, fought to protect workers to advance the standing of women.

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Jane Addams

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advocate for immigrants and strove to protect their welfare

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positivism

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understanding science

-social laws that exist, laws for human behavior. learn to use them to make society a better place to live.

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correlation

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movement of the variables

/ (positive correlation)

\ (negative correlation)

*spurious correlation- when 2 variables change but 1 is not responsible for the other.

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cause and effect

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1) two variables are correlated (meaning they move together)

2) independent variable comes before dependent variable in time

3)there is no evidence that the correlation is spurious because of the 3rd variable.

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survey

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-research method in which subjects respond to a series of statements/questions in a questionnaire or interview

a) population

b) sample

c) questionnaire

d) interview