Sociology Slide 1

Question 1

Who termed the word “sociology” - what’s the definition

Answer 1

Auguste Comte

• The systematic or scientific study of social behaviour in human societies

Question 2

Anticipatory Socialization

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Process which someone adopts the values and behaviours of a group to which they do not get belong but that they aspire to join

(family, school, jobs, peers,media

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Resocialization

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Process that involves a replacement of a persons values, beliefs, and sense of self

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total institution

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Isolated, confined community that controls most aspects of its member’s life

• it’s goals is to erase inhabitants existing values, beliefs, and overall sense of self and replace these with another set
  -Ex. Residential school

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Inter generational Trauma

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Effects of parents harmful childhood experiences on their relationship with their children, which passes on psychological and social problems from one generation to the next

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4 C’s that describe indigenous historical trauma

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colonial in origin, collectively experienced, with cumulative effects, and cross generational impacts

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macrosociology

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examines population and social systems on a large scale including whole societies

• study of a large social organizations
• study of large social categories

ex. Institutions

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Microsociology

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Focus on face-face interactions in small groups

ex. at a daycare ( worker/ child interactions)

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C. Wright Mills (1959)

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Developed a concept of the “sociological imagination”

• ability to see how history and biography together influence our lives
• Relationship between personal experience and the wider society

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Scientific Method

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organized series of steps that ensure max objectivity and consistency when researching a problem

1. Define
   2.Review
   3.Formulate
   - Quantitive (Hypothesis)
   - Qualitative ( Research Questions)
   4.Select
   5.Collect
   6.Analyze
   7.Report

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Value Neutrality

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Must report data regardless of findings

Question 12

What are the three sociological theories

(SCS)

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1. Structural Functionalism
   Example of Macro-sociology
2. Critical Theories
   - Conflict Theory
   - Feminist Sociology
3. Symbolic Interactionism
   putting meaning to words as you experience themEx. Dog turns into 4 legged canine

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Structural Functionalism

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Refers to the way different parts of a society are organized to maintain societal stability

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Emile Durkheim

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Studied suicide rates in Europe and concluded social causation
- lack of social integration
-lack of collective moral regulation

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Anomie

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Social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values

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Conflict Theory

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views society as an arena of continual struggle between groups competing for resources and power

• some groups have more power/resources over others

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Communism

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Classless society; where the public owns the means of production and workers paid based on ability and need

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Karl Marx

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• Conflict Theory

believed that the working class would eventually overthrow the capitalists to establish a communist society

• believed that capitalism was alienating: capitalism alienated people from each other and from the products of their labour

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Alienation

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estrangement of people from their true human potential

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Feminist Sociology

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Extend conflict theory to inequality between the sexes

putting women at a bottom

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Use of everyday forms of social interactions to explain society as a whole

putting meanings behind words

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Social Construction

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A person’s experience of reality is determined by the social meaning attached to the reality

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Max Weber Thoughts

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Individual act according to their interpretation of the meaning of their world