Theron is Memeboy69 Flashcards

(28 cards)

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C. Wright Mills

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(1959)
- Sociological Imagination:
Imagining what another society is like from an outsider looking in

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Sociological Imagination

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Problems are not on a personal level, but more so a social level

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August Comte

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(1798-1857)

  • Father of Sociology
  • Wanted Sociology to improve people’s lives
  • Saw it as a science
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Emile Durkheim

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(1858-1917)

  • Studied Comte, viewed it as a science, studied Social Facts
  • Viewed society as a body, where all moving parts needed to function
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Karl Marx

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(1818-1883)

  • Looked at the economy to define social change
  • Focused on theills of capitalism and how they lead to the class system
  • Predicted that the class division would come from a capitalistic system
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Materialistic conception of history

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Only the economy can drive social change

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Max Weber

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(1864-1920)

  • Similar to Marx
  • Believed that personal values also affected the social changes
  • Talked a bunch about Christianity, Christianity changed the protestant work ethic
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Harriet Martineau

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(1802-1876)

  • Introduced Sociology to England
  • Wanted to study domestic life.
  • Against slavery and child labor, fought for women’s rights
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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(1868-1963)

  • First significant African American Sociologist
  • Studied Double consciousness and the color line
  • Ph. D from Harvard.
  • Denounced his citizenship and became a communist
  • Founded the NAACP
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Double consciousness

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Viewing society through different categories of your life, such as being an African American and also a American

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Personal Troubles

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Largely private issues, only to be experienced by the individual, not by society
(sexuality, depression, etc)

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Public issues

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Problems to be experienced by the public and not the individual

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Structuration

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Life is not random, but rather, our lives are dynamic, and will constantly be based upon social cause and effect. Structured and patterned. Societies are always changing.

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Global Perspective

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Thinking about the world through connections in a worldful piece of mind

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Theory

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System of ideas to likely prove something as true

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Social Facts

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Aspects of society that shape your life such as economy, politics, religion, etc.

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Organic Solidarity

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(Durkheim)

Various parts of society working together as a whole

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Social Constraint

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conditioning influenced by our known societies

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Anomie

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Places in society where norms are loosely held, where you can be weird
Insane asylum?

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Capitalism

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Private ownership of wealth to gain profit

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Dysfunction

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Undesirable consequences of a social activity

Seeing family at a wedding

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Manifest Function

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Desirable consequences of a social activity

Supporting your family at a wedding

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Latent Function

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Unaware consequences of a social activity to the user

Spending money and gaining weight from food

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Robert Merton

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Founder of the Three Functions, dysfunction, manifest function, and Latent Function

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Power
Ability of an individual to achieve the aims or further their own interests
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Ideology
Shared ideas or beliefs that serve to justify the means of dominant groups. Connected to power. Ideologies legitimize power.
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Feminism
Women are equal to men in everything.
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Feminist Theory
Emphasizes centrality of gender in analyzing the social world