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Sociological imagination

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Highlights how society affects the experiences we have and choices we make
Transforms personal troubles into social issues

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Sociology

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The study of human society

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Society

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People who live within same territory and Share patterns of behavior

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Culture

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Where is life including values beliefs and behaviors

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Sociology key insight

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Many personal troubles people face are really social issues

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C Wright Mills

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Used sociological imagination
involving
People feel that their lives are series of traps and cannot over come them

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Social problems

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Effects the well-being of some members of society and is a matter of public controversy
A social problem hurts people by causing them harm

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Social constructionist approach

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that social problems arise as people define conditions in need of change social problems have a subjective foundation

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What plays a part in social construction of social problems

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Objective facts and subjective perceptions

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Claims making

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convince others that an issue is a social problem I

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Stages in social movement

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Emergence, coalescence, formalization Decline

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Emergence

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Initial claims are made

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Coalesence

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Claims are publicized

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Formalization

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Claims recognized as part of political debate

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Eight Statements of social problems

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Result from ways in which society operates
Are not caused by bad people
Socially constructed as people define a condition as harmful or need to change
See problems differently
Problems change over time
Subjective values as well as objective facts
Social problems can be solved
Social problems are related

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Theory

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A statement of how and why specific facts are related

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Theoretical approach

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Basic image of society that guides theory and research

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What are the 4 theoretical approaches

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Structural functional
Social conflict
Feminist
Symbolic interaction

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Structural functional approach

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See society as a system of interrelated parts

Described as social institutions major spheres of social life or societal sub systems to meet human basic need

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Social pathology theory

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Structural functional theory treat social problems as disruption of society normal operation

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Structural functional sociologists names

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Herbert Spencer

Charles Darwin

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Herbert Spencer

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Poverty is the result of some people liking the ability of discipline to work

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Charles Darwin

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Survival of the fittest rich as society’s most successful members or are unable to keep up

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Social disorganization

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Problems arise when Society breaks down due to social change that occurs to rapidly

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Social conflict approach
See society as divided by inequality and conflict
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Social conflict sociologists names
Karl Marx
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Chicago’s school
Type of structural functional theory linked problems not to deficient people but social disorganization
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Social disorganization theory
Problems arise when society breaks down due to social change that occurs to rapidly
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Dysfunctions
Negative functions of social patterns
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Karl Marx
Believed that social problems or an evitable result of the normal operation of a capitalist economy
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Capitalism
Economic system in which businesses are privately owned by people
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Multi cultural theory
Siri under social conflict theory explains how social problems arise from racial and ethnic inequality
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What critics say about social conflict approach
Overstating the extent of social divisions | Rejects scientific objectivity in favor of political activism
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Feminist approach
Gender conflict approach
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Feminism
Political movement that seeks the social equality of women in men
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Feminism is like
Marxism and multiculturalism at six to change the status quo just as a challenge is the structural functional of your society
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Criticisms of feminism
Over states quality and separates the sexes
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Symbolic interaction theory
Say society as the product of individuals interacting with one another
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Learning theory
Part of symbolic interaction | People learn troublesome attitudes and behaviors from others around them
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Nannette Davis
Symbolic interaction theorist People learn rolls one step at a time reaching the point where it becomes their livelihood and part of their social identity
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Symbolic interaction
Explorers how people socially construct reality
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Structural functional basic image of society
System of interrelated parts all of which contribute to its operation
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Structural functional approach how do we understand problems
Societies basically good problems are the result of deficient people to rapid of change or dysfunctional consequences
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Social conflict and feminist approaches image of society
Social conflict see society as a system of social any quality in which some categories of people benefit at the expense of others Feminist approach highlights in equality between men and women
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Social conflict and feminist approaches how do I understand problems
Problems result from inequality in terms of class Marxism gender gender conflict theory and feminism and race multiculturalism
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Symbolic interaction what is the basic image of society
There’s social interaction we can struck the variable and changing reality to experience
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Symbolic interaction How do we understand problems
People learn attitudes and skills for all patterns of behavior this approach explores how people may or may not define situations as problems
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Barbara ehrenreich
Spent months working along. Low wage workers willingness to work hard is not enough to escape poverty
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Lois benjamin
Investigated the problem of racial prejudice success provides no escape from racial prejudice
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William Wilson
Poor living in Chicago People who live in poverty for many years deal with a host of social problems joblessness
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4 major research methods
Survey Field research Experimental research Secondary analysis
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Survey
Research method in which subjects respond to items on a questionnaire for interview
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Field research
Research method for observing people while joining them in every day activities
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Experiment
Research method investigating cause-and-effect relationships under controlled conditions
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Secondary analysis
Research method that makes use of data originally collected by others
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Three tips that make you a critical reader
Researchers to find their terms Researchers is never perfect Researchers may spend their statistics
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Social policy
Formal strategies that affect our society operates
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To know if the policy works we must ask these questions three
How do we measure success What are the cost of a policy or program Who should get helped
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Political spectrum
Continuing representing arrange a political attitudes from left to right
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Three political sides
Conservatives liberals radicals
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Conservatives
Conservatives is a political view the Pastores wisdom developed by countless generations Respectful of traditions and tries to conserve what other generations have learned
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Liberals
Think that people should be free from past to decide on their own questions on how to live People are allowed to make choices for themselves
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Radicals
Believes that the system should be changed right down to its roots Society is responsible for any number of social problems
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Social issues
Political debates involving moral judgments about how people should live
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People who lean to the left
Social liberals they think people should be free to shape their own lives
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Leaning right
Social conservatives are respectful of traditional values and went to conserve them
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Economic issues
Political debates about how a society should produce and distribute material resources
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Economic liberals
Lean to the left favor government regulation of economy in order to reduce inequality free market system works to the advantage of a select few the rich
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Economic conservatives
Lean to the right they call for a smaller role in government in the economy The market not government officials can segues levels were fairly and efficiently
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Social problems are socially constructed
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Social stratification
Society system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy social stratification produces social classes
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Social classes
Categories of people who have similar access and resources and opportunities
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Income
Salary or wages from a job for us earnings from investments in
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Wealth
Value of all economic assets owned by a person and family minus any debts
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Taxation
An important government policies that affects income inequality
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Governments what is the tax on what we earn and buy for three major reasons
Provide the government with money to operate To discourage types of behavior like drinking Could be a tool to Redistribute income and reduce inequality
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How does the government reduce economic inequalities
Progressive taxation
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Progressive taxation
A policy that raises tax rates as income increases taking more from the rich and giving it to the poor Robin Hood Theory
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Poverty line
An income level said by the US government for the purpose of counting the poor
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What does the poverty line represents
A dollar amount of annual income below which the government defines a person or family as for eligible for government assistance
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Feminization of poverty
The trend of women making up an increasing share of the poor
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Who are the poor
Children white people women single mothers in rural areas
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The working poor
Low wage work really pays much more than the federal Melissa nominee hourly wage
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Reasons for not working
Health problems lacks of skills or confidence not being able to pay for childcare
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Persistent poverty counties
Counties in the United States where the poverty rate has reached 20% and remain there for at least 30 years

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