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Question 1

How did Cameron Russel use the sociological imagination

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To feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in success and failure

Question 2

What is sociology

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Social science that studies the development, structure, and functioning of human society.

Question 3

What can change someone’s future

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Critical thinking

Question 4

What is a social pattern

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forms of social actions that are repeated and have some probability of recurring again

Question 5

Add the steps for developing the sociological imagination (mills)

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(1) Tracing the interconnection between individual’s behavioral patterns and the larger social forces, (2) learning to identify the system generated behavior of human beings, and (3) identifying the social forces which are shaping the individual’s behavior.

Question 6

How did facebook affect relationships

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Created a public record, constant reminders,allows others to always have a say, everything is public, and others overanalyze

Question 7

What are personal experiences affected by

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Class,ethnicity, gender,age, and sexual orientation

Question 8

What did Henry Giroux say the lack of sociological imagination could do

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Social issues can become viewed as private problems disconnected from the larger forces

Question 9

Sociology involves looking for and at patterns in

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social variables, such as age, gender, “race,” ethnicity, religion, ability, and sexual orientation.

Question 10

What do sociologists observe

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social patterms

Question 11

What 3 ways is sociology distinct

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Concerned with society, examines differences of large groups and components, ways it responds to an analysis of the world

Question 12

Who came up with the sociological imagination

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C Wright Mills

Question 13

What is Lupe Fiasco doing for sociology

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Making music in a socially conscious manner

Question 14

How does the sociological immagination connect the public and private

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Larger social issues and history shape our own problems

Question 15

In what manners do sociologists discuss social issues in

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Informed and critical manner

Question 16

What did Max Weber believe about the protestant work ethic

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That they contributed heavily to modern capitalism through the praise of wealth and work for god

Question 17

What was the difference in students at yale and students in harlem.

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The Harlem students didn’t expect much for their future yet the Yale students were sure their future was bright

Question 18

Why should we study sociology

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To achieve a greater understanding of: the social world, one’s self, and others

Question 19

“Sociology is the study of the way that humans are shaped by things they don’t see.” Who said this?

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Sam Richards

Question 20

What did C wright Mills talk about

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The connection between how society works and how it affects our personal lives

Question 21

Which Chicago-based sociologist focused on human ecology?

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Robert E Park

Question 22

What is the 5th dimension

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The background questions we make as to what happens beneath the surface

Question 23

What do sociologists look at

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Patterns in social variables, social institutions, and social interactions

Question 24

What is the sociological imagination

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The ability to see the connection between our private world and the public world

Question 25

What did Greta Thunberg do

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Ask questions about the environment that people weren't asking

Question 26

What does the sociological imagination provide

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Perspective

Question 27

How did Covid 19 heavily affect society

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Through breaking connectivity

Question 28

Who was Confucius

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A chinese philosopher who used role modelling in his life

Question 29

Who was Ibn Khaldun

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Examined societies and cultures

Question 30

What was the theory of Social Conflict

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Social conflict theory is a social theory which argues that individuals and groups within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than consensus.

Question 31

Sociology developed why

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a response to dramatic changes | eg. industrialization,revolutions,women's rights, and urbanization

Question 32

Who gave us the term sociology

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Auguste Comte

Question 33

What is positivism

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experiment, measurement, observation | look for positive verification

Question 34

Whos work did Harriet Martineeu further

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Auguste Comte

Question 35

Who was the first woman sociologist

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Harriet Martineau

Question 36

What did Harriet Martineau write

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Society in America and the First sociology methods book

Question 37

Write more on talked about sociologists on ss table

Answer 37

**OKKKKK**

Question 38

Who influenced Herbert Spencer

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Influenced by Darwin (evolution) and Comte (positivism)

Question 39

What did Herbert Spencer believe in

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Justified social inequalities | Harsh dude!

Question 40

Why should we understand social structure and probelms

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To be able to solve the problems

Question 41

What are the elements of social structure

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Social institutions=>social groups=>social statuses=>social roles

Question 42

What are the groups of a social institution

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Traditional S.I.'s, and Contemporary S.I.'s

Question 43

What are Traditional S.I.'s

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Economy, Family, Religion, Education, politics

Question 44

What are Contemporary S.I.'s

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Science and technology, Medicine, mass media, military, sport

Question 45

What is a social insitution

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An established and enduring pattern of social relationships

Question 46

What is structural functionalism (SF)

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bones: structures and functions that support society

Question 47

What did Emile Durkheim say about structural functionalism

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Social facts (# of suicides), why do people do what they do

Question 48

What are the 3 characteristics of every social fact

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1. It was developed prior to and seperate from you as an individual 2. It can be seen as a characteristic of a particular group 3. It involves a constraining or coercing force that pushes individuals into acting in a particular way

Question 49

Three different types of functions that any structure can produce:

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1. Manifest Functions:intended and easily recognized 2. Latent Functions: unintended 3. Latent Dysfunctions:unintended and produce socially negative consequences (e.g. conflict)

Question 50

What is the conlfict perspective (CP)

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4 C's: 1. conflict 2.

Question 51

What are the 4 C's of the conflict perspective

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4 C's: 1. conflict 2. Class 3. Constestation 4. Change | Constestation: the action or process of disputing or arguing.

Question 52

What did Karl Marx say needed to be focused on

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The economic base that society is structured upon

Question 53

What conflict did Marx explore

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The conflict between the capitalist and the workers

Question 54

What did WEB Dubois write about

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Race conflict theory

Question 55

What is symbolic interactionism (SI)

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Looks at the meaning (symbols we use to make meaning) of the daily social interaction of individuals

Question 56

What did Max Weber have interested in

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Interested in the imapcts of capitalism, focused on the protestant work ethic

Question 57

What was the protestant work ethic

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To accumulate wealth and work earn your way into heaven