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Ch 1 Flashcards

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Sociological perspective

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  • Social contexts in which people live and how it influences people’s lives
  • how groups influence people and how people are influenced by their society
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Society

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Group of people who share a culture and a territory

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Social location

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Corners in life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society
Ex. Job, income, education, gender

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Scientific method

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Using objective, systematic observations to test theories

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Auguste Comte

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  • Positivism: apply scientific method to the social world
  • invented sociology
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Sociology

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  • study of society
  • discover social principles to social reform
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Herbert Spencer

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  • second father of sociology
  • sociology should not guide social reform; would interfere with natural processes
  • Social Darwinism: evolving from barbarian form to civilized form; only the fittest (intelligent) survive
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Karl Marx

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  • Class conflict: two social classes: bourgeoisie (capitalists) and proletariat (workers)
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Emile Durkheim

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  • social factors underlie suicide rates
  • Social Integration: the degree to which people are tied to their social group
  • weaker social ties = higher suicide rate
  • patterns of behavior: recurring characteristics/ events
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Max Weber

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  • religion is the central force in social change
  • Protestant ethic: self-denying approach, birth of capitalism
  • spirit of capitalism: desire to invest capital in order to make more money
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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  • African American
  • founded NAACP
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Jane Addams

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  • founded Hull House
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Basic sociology

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Analyzing some aspect of society with no goal other than gaining knowledge

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Applied sociology

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Using sociology to solve problems
Ex. NAACP

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Public Sociology

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Middle ground between research and reform; benefit the public

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Theory

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General statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; explanation of how 2 or more facts are related to one another

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3 major theories

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Symbolic interaction, functional analysis, conflict theory

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Symbolic interactionism

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  • Symbols are key to understanding how we view the world and communicate with one another
  • George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
  • micro: face to face interaction
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Functional Analysis

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  • Society is a whole unit made up of parts that work together
  • when all parts of society fulfill their functions, society is in normal state
  • when they do not, society is in abnormal/ pathological state
  • macro: large scaled patterns of society
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Robert Merton

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Functionalism: society is a whole composed of parts that work together

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Manifest functions

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action intended to help part of a system

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Latent functions

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Unintended consequences that help a system adjust

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Conflict Theory

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  • Society is composed of groups that are competing with one another for scarce resources
  • Karl Marx
  • class conflict
  • macro
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Surveys

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  • narrow the population: target group
  • sample: individuals from your target
  • random sample: everyone in population has same chance of being included in study
  • stratified random sample: subgroups,
  • respondents: people who answer the questions
  • close ended questions: followed by list of possible answers, ex. Age
  • open ended: answer in your own words
  • rapport: trust with respondents
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Participant Observation (Fieldwork)

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researcher participates in research setting with observing what is happening

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Case Studies

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  • Researcher focuses on single event/ individual
  • power dynamics/ motives
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Secondary Analysis

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Researcher analyze data that have been collected

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Analysis of Documents

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  • Study documents, records, papers
  • cannot be used to study social and emotional
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Experiments

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  • determine cause and effect
  • experimental group and control group
30
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Unobtrusive Measures

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  • observing the behavior of people who are not aware that they are being studied
  • can be unethical
    Ex. Cameras, 911 calls
31
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8 steps in sociological research

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  1. Select topic
  2. Define problem
  3. Review literature
  4. Form hypothesis
  5. Choose research method
  6. Collect data
  7. Analyze results
  8. Share results

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