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Marx

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class conflict
historical materialism
conflict leads to societal change
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Weber

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Class (economic power)
Status (social power)
Party (political power)

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Verstehen

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aim to understand the meanings that people attach to behavior

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Durkheim

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Solidarity from the division of labor
holds society together
Anomie

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Anomie

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normlessness that results from rapid change

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Functionalism

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Society is made up of parts that work together in harmony

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Functionalism: macro or micro

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macro

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what question does functionalism propose

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how does ___ serve in society>

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Conflict Theory

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society has groups which are competing for scarce resources

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Conflict theory: macro or micro

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macro

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what questions does conflict theory propose

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who is benefitting from this conflict?

Where does this conflict come from?

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Feminist theory

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society subordinates women

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Feminist Theory: macro or micro

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macro

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what questions does feminist theory propose?

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How is gender inequality perpetuated through social institutions

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symbolic interactionism

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society is daily interactions through shared meanings

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symbolic interactionism macro or micro

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micro

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what questions does symbolic interactionism propose?

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What meanings do people attach their behaviors

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Postmodernism

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Society has relative and changing meanigs

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postmodernism: macro or micro

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both

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what questions does postmodernism propose?

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how much meanings change depending on the group being asked/studied

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what was Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness

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behavioral scripts within society

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What is double consciousness

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sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others

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Qualitative

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non numerical (language)

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Quantitative

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numerical data

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Inductive research approach
observation theory test theory
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deductive research approach
Theory hypothesis gather data test theory
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null hypothesis
no relationship
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research hypothesis
a proposed relationship between the variables based on what you know
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correlation
variables are related but don't directly affect each other
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causation
the idea that a change in A results in a change in B
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Research Methods
``` survey interview participant observation historical/comparative experiments content analysis ```
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survery strength
wide variety of people larger sample size inexpensive
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survey weaknesses
response bias | answer options are limited
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participant observation strength
Natural observation
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participant observation weaknesses
time consuming | researchers presence could have an effect
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interview strength
in depth responses | follow up questions
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interview weaknesses
smaller sample size time consuming costly
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historical and comparative strength
you can obtain information
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historical and comparative weaknessess
missing info
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experiment strength
control over the environment to asses causality
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experiment weaknesses
ethical | not natural
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content analysis strength
getting lots of data | easily accessible
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content analysis weakness
limited by any missing data
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Material Culture
anything that is part of our constructed environment
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non material culture
Values, Beliefs, norms
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cultural scripts
Modes of understanding and behavior
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cultural relativism
recognizing differences across cultures without assigning value to those differences
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how can the media affect us?
short term deliberate long term deliberate short term unintentional long term unintentional
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media centralization
the fact that fewer and fewer groups control more and more of the media
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relationship between values and norms
our values indicate our behavior (norms)
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ethnocentricism
judging cultures to be inferior against your own
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ethnocentricism
judging cultures to be inferior against your own
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how are media effects categorized
duration and intent
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short term and deliberate
advertising
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long term and deliberate
campaigns
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short term and unintentional
violence coverage in the media
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long term and unintentional
creating and sustaining stereotypes
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Socialization
Process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a society
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Primary agents of socialization?
Family-gender School-sharing, authority Peers-sex, drugs Media- societal stereotypes
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Mead's theory of socialization
Social self develops over childhood and specifically three stages
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What is the I
our response to and interpretation of the Me
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Role Strain
occurs when there is strain among one role
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Role Conflict
occurs when there is strain between roles
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ascribed
a status that is unlikely to change
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achieved
a status that one has earned through individual effort or imposed by others
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master status
first noticed status that override all others
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status set
all of the statuses ascribed and achieved that an individual holds
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What is the Me
our social self that considers the generalized other (society as a whole)
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What does Goffman mean when he talks about impression management
The act of attempting to influence the perceptions of others
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What do we mean when we say race is socially constructed
social construction of reality refers to the ways we give meaning or value to ideas, objects, people through our interactions
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how is the social construction race demonstrated
changing census categories
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In groups
groups with power and typically represent the majority
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outgroups
minority and typically stigmatized
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reference groups
not directly involved but we use them to measure ourselves and where we stand in society relative to others
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Asch Test
Showed the power of groups
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Social Networks
set of relations
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social ties
explains the relationships
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embeddedness
refers to the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths in a social network
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social capital
The information, knowledge, and connections that help us enter other networks

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