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Scientific knowledge

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Comprehensive, clear, consistent

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Sociology

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The study of society; groups with patterned ways

Large insititutions, mass culture, small groups, relationships

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Howard Becker

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Believed as the study”doing things together”

No one lives in isolation; we’re all human beings

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Disciplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world but also mixes with natural science (history, geography, psychology, political science

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Social science

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Looks at the individual in the relationship to external social forces

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Sociological Perspective

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Beginners Mind

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Approaching the world in a new way w/o facts, projections, assumptions, opinions, and explanations

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Model for understanding self and society

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Paradigm shift

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Person making a choice, and dealing with consequences as well as rewards

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Individualism

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Culture shock

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Feeling of disorientation/ out of place when your in a new environment
(Ex. Going to a new country)
Someone may find your life just as foreign

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Sociological imagination

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Things not happening by chance,, circumstances, or matter of character. But from specifics from cultural & historical context
(Ex. Outsourcing, migration patterns, downsizing)

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Diversity

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Variety of people that make of gender, race, age, social class, disability status, ethnicity, religions etc.

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Social system

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Taking the positions, ideas, and other elements thinking what the results will be as a whole.
Individuals = social systems

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The initial small difference in the beginning of success or opportunity and gets bigger

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Accumulative advantage

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Microsociology

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Level of analysis that studies face to face and small group interactions in order to understand how they affect larger patterns

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Macrosociology

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Level analysis that studies large scale social structures in order to determine how they affect lives of groups/individuals

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Abstract propositions that explain the social world and make predictions

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Theories

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Structural Functionalism (functionalist theory)

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Emile Durkheim

  • society is a unified whole that functions b/c of the contributions of its separate functions
  • most dominant theoretical perspective into 20th century
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Mechanical Solidarity

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Emile Durkheim

- Bond together by shared traditions, beliefs, and experiences

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Organic Solidarity

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Emile Durkheim

  • people’s bonds were based on the tasks they performed, interdependence & individual rights
  • more in industrial societies at the time
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Sense of disconnection brought about by changing conditions of modern life

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Anomie

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Solidarity

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Integration/unity within a particular society. Individuals feel connected to other members of the group
(Ex. Religion- power source, reinforces collective bonds and shared moral values)

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The holy, divine, or supernatural

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Sacred

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The ordinary, mundane, or everyday

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Profane

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Collective Effervescence

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An intense energy on shared events where people feel swept up in something larger than themselves
(Ex. Live concert, sporting event)

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Collective conscience
Shared morals/ beliefs that are common to a group and which foster social solidarity - group must be frequently renewed thru the ritual( common religious tradition)
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Empirical Method
Based on scientific experimentation or observation
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Structures ( 1 of 2 main principles of functionalism)
Society is conceived as a stable over time & meets the needs of society by performing functions necessary to maintain order & stability (Ex. Family, educational system, politics, economy) - If structure is transformed, the others must adjust
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Dysfunction ( 1 of 2 principles of functionalism)
A disturbance to or undesirable consequence of some aspect of the social system ( ex. Families don't discipline kids, schools, church)
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Social cohesion
Shared religion and moral values
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Manifest function
Robert Merton | - the obvious, intended, functions of social structure for the social system
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Latent function
Robert Merton | - less obvious, unintended functions
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Advantages of functionalism
Attempts to provide universal social theory | Ability to bring order to a potentially disorderly world
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Cons of Functionalism
Provides little insight to social processes b/c it's model of society is static then dynamic Focus on macro level
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Conflict theory
Sees social conflict as basis of society & social change, & emphasizes a materialist view of the status quo - dynamic model of historical change - 2nd major thought in sociology
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Unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of society
Social inequality
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Karl Marx
Conflict theory | "Marxism"
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Political system based on the collective ownership of the means of production; opposed to capitalism
Communism
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Conflict
Generated by competition Mong different class groups for scarce resources and the source of all social change
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Emerging economic system based on the private for-profit operation of industry
Capitalism
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Means of production
Anything that can create more wealth | money, property, factories
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Proletariat
Workers; have no means of production
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Bourgeoisie
Owners, modern capitalist
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Alienation
Sense of dissatisfaction the modern worker feels as a result of producing goods that are owned and controlled by someone else
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Every person contributes too and benefits from the public good
Socialism
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Ideology
System of beliefs, attitudes, and values that direct a society & reproduces the status quo of the bourgeoisie
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False consciousness
Denial of the truth on the part of the oppressed when they fail to recognize the interests of the ruling class
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Class Consciousness
Recognition of the social inequality of the part of the oppressed, leading to revolutionary action
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Dialectical Model (Marx)
Historical/ Social change, whereby 2 extreme positions would eventually create some kind of compromise b/w them resulting in a "middle ground"
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Existing social arrangements in a dialectical model
Thesis
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Opposition to the existing arrangements in a dialectical model
Antithesis
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New social system created out of the conflict b/w thesis and antithesis in a dialectical model
Synthesis
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Critical theory( Marxism)
Contemporary form of conflict theory that criticizes many different systems & ideologies of domination and oppression
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Feminist theory
(20th century) | Looks at gender inequalities in society, and the way that gender structures the social world
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Queer theory
Proposes that categories of sexual identity. No sexual category is fundamentally either deviant or normal
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Practical action that is taken on the basis of intellectual or theoretical understanding
Praxis
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Conflict theory
Useful in understanding macro and micro level. Analyzes social arrangements existence doesn't mean beneficial, it may merely represent the interest of those in power
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Practical knowledge
Can't explain in technical way
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Rationalization
Application of economic logic to all spheres of human activity
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Bureaucracies
Groups designed to perform tasks efficiently; characterized by specialization, hierarchy, and written rules
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Max Weber's description of modern life. We're all caught in bureaucracies structures that control our lives through rigid rules
Iron Cage
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Disenchantment
Rationalization of modern society, inevitable result of dehumanizing features of bureaucracies
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Versthen
"Empathic understanding"
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Symbolic interactionism
Focuses on how people make sense of the world through day to day decisions Life is a stage play
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Assumes organisms (including humans) make practical adaptions to their environments; humans do this through cognition, interpretation, and interaction
Progmatism
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Dramaturgy
Describe the ways in which we engage in a strategic presentation of ourselves to others
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(Study of folk methods) maintains that members of society must acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to act practically in out every day lives ( make meaning out of troublesome or ambiguous events)
Ethnomethdology
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Conversation analysis
Looks at how we create meaning in naturally occurring conversation, often by taping and examining conversations
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Suggests that social reality is diverse, pluralistic, and constantly in flux
Postmodernism
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Places trust in the power of science and technology to create progress, solve problems, and improve life
Modernism
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Deconstruction
Type of critical post modern analysis that involves taking apart or disassembling old ways of thinking
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Mid-range theory
Integrates empiricism and grand theory, provides ands overarching, comprehensive explanation of society as a whole
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Contest/ Battlefield
Conflict theory
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"Clock"
Structural functionalist
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"Stage play"
Symbolic interaction and

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