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Sociological imagination

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Transfers personal troubles and it social issues by showing us how society affects the experiences we have

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Sociology

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Study of human societies

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Societies

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People who live together and share many patterns of behavior

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Social problem

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A condition that undermines the well-being and hurts people by causing them harm or draining your spirit

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Social constructionist approach

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Social problems arise as people define conditions as undesirable and need of change

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Claims making

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Efforts by people to convince others that an issue should be defined as a social problem

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Social movements

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An organized effort at claims making tries to shape the way people think on an issue to encourage change

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Theory

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A statement of facts

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Theoretical approach

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Basic image of society that guides theory and research

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Social institutions

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Major spheres of social life organized to meet basic human need

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Social pathology theory

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Treat social problems as a destruction of societies normal operation

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Social disorganization theory

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Society breaks down door to rapid change

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Social conflict approach

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Siri let’s see society as divided by inequality

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Feminism

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Vertical movement at 6:05 quality of women

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Survey

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Search Method by questionnaire or interview

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Field research

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Observing people while joining them in every day activities

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Experiment

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Investigating cause-and-effect relationships under controlled conditions think of a lab

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Secondary analysis

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Makes use of data already collected by others

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Social policy

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Formal strategies that if that’s how society operates

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Political spectrum

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Range of political attitudes from left to right

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Social issues

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Political debates involving moral judgments about how people should live

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Economic issues

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Political debates about how society should produce and distribute material resources

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Social stratification

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Society system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy reduce the social classes

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Social classes

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Categories of people who have similar access to resources and opportunities

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Income
Salary for wages from a job earnings from investments
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Progressive taxation
Policy that raises tax rates as income increases
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Poverty line
Income level sit by the US government accounting of the
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Poverty gap
Difference between the actual income of the typical poor and the official poverty line
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Persistent poverty counties
Counties in the United States where the poverty rate has reached 20% and remain for 30 years
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Homelessness
What up for people who like shelter and live on the
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Social welfare programs
Organized effort by government and organizations to assassinated people
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Culture of poverty
Cultural patterns that encourage properties way of life
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Merit- ocracey
A system of social inequality related to a persons ability an effort
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Social disorganization
Breakdown of social order caused by rapid change
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Blaming the victim
Finding cause of the social problem in the behavior people who suffer from it
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Cultural capital
Skills values attitudes and schooling and increase a persons chances of success
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Patriarchy
Social pattern in which she males dominate females
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Intersection theory
Interplay of race class and gender often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage
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Capitalism
Economic system in which natural resources and producing goods and services are privately owned
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Government
Formal organization that directs the political bias of society
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Socialism
An economic system in which natural resources and producing goods and services are collectively old
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State capitalism
Involves government working closely with large companies privately owned
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Welfare capitalism
Provides extensive welfare programs funded by high taxes
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Political economy
Leslie paint economic and political life of a nation or world or region
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Democracy
Political system in which powers exercise by the people as a whole
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Authoritarianism
Political system that’s nice popular participation in government
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Monarchy
Political system in which a single-family rules generation to generation
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Corporations
This is his with legal existence separate from that of their members an island onto its own
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Monopoly
Domination of an entire market by a single company
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Oligopoly
Domination of a market by a few companies more than one
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Conglomerate
Giant corporation composed of many smaller corporations PepsiCo old is quaker oats Starbucks
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Interlocking directorates
Social networks made up of people who service directors of several corporations at a time of the number of a board of directors and serve on the board of another board of directors think gordy
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Special interest groups
Political alliance of people interested in some economic or social issue
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Lobbying
Representatives of special interest groups that influence government officials
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Political action committees PAC
Organizations form by special interest groups to raise and spend money in support of political goals
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Gender gap
Women in men have different opinions about certain issues and support different candidates
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Pluralist model
Seize power widely distributed among various groups and organizations in society
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Military industrial complex
Close association of federal government and military and defense industries
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Power elite model
Sees power as concentrate among members of small elite
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Marxis political economy model
She’s concentration of wealth and power and society as a result from capitalism
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Primary sector
Produces raw materials farming fishing ranching
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Secondary sector
Workers transformer materials into finished products furniture
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Service work
Sales consulting law advertising
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Deindustrialization
Decline of industrial production occurred in the US after 1950
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Globalization
Expansion of economic activity around the world with no regard for national borders
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Primary labor market
Jobs at provide workers with good pay an extensive benefits
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White collar professions
Lawyer position
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Secondary labor market
Jobs provide workers with low pay And Few benefits
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Alienation
Powerlessness in the workplace resulting in experience of isolation in Misery
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Rationalization of society
Historical change from tradition to rationality of the typical way people think about the world
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McDonaldization
Defining work in terms of the principles of efficiency predictability uniformity in automation Pushing a button
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McJobs
Doing a series of simple tasks pushing buttons on a computer or machine repeated over and over
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Gig economy
Arrangements by which companies in other organizations contract with independent workers were specific work over a short period of time Uber
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Labor unions
Worker organizations that seek to improve rages and working condition including negotiations and strikes

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