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How did Cameron Russel use the sociological imagination

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To feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in success and failure

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What is sociology

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Social science that studies the development, structure, and functioning of human society.

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What can change someone’s future

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Critical thinking

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What is a social pattern

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forms of social actions that are repeated and have some probability of recurring again

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Add the steps for developing the sociological imagination (mills)

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(1) Tracing the interconnection between individual’s behavioral patterns and the larger social forces, (2) learning to identify the system generated behavior of human beings, and (3) identifying the social forces which are shaping the individual’s behavior.

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How did facebook affect relationships

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Created a public record, constant reminders,allows others to always have a say, everything is public, and others overanalyze

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What are personal experiences affected by

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Class,ethnicity, gender,age, and sexual orientation

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What did Henry Giroux say the lack of sociological imagination could do

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Social issues can become viewed as private problems disconnected from the larger forces

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Sociology involves looking for and at patterns in

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social variables, such as age, gender, “race,” ethnicity, religion, ability, and sexual orientation.

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What do sociologists observe

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social patterms

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What 3 ways is sociology distinct

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Concerned with society, examines differences of large groups and components, ways it responds to an analysis of the world

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Who came up with the sociological imagination

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C Wright Mills

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What is Lupe Fiasco doing for sociology

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Making music in a socially conscious manner

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How does the sociological immagination connect the public and private

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Larger social issues and history shape our own problems

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In what manners do sociologists discuss social issues in

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Informed and critical manner

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What did Max Weber believe about the protestant work ethic

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That they contributed heavily to modern capitalism through the praise of wealth and work for god

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What was the difference in students at yale and students in harlem.

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The Harlem students didn’t expect much for their future yet the Yale students were sure their future was bright

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Why should we study sociology

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To achieve a greater understanding of: the social world, one’s self, and others

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“Sociology is the study of the way that humans are shaped by things they don’t see.” Who said this?

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Sam Richards

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What did C wright Mills talk about

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The connection between how society works and how it affects our personal lives

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Which Chicago-based sociologist focused on human ecology?

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Robert E Park

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What is the 5th dimension

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The background questions we make as to what happens beneath the surface

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What do sociologists look at

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Patterns in social variables, social institutions, and social interactions

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What is the sociological imagination

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The ability to see the connection between our private world and the public world

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What did Greta Thunberg do

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Ask questions about the environment that people weren’t asking

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What does the sociological imagination provide

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Perspective

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How did Covid 19 heavily affect society

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Through breaking connectivity

28
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Who was Confucius

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A chinese philosopher who used role modelling in his life

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Who was Ibn Khaldun

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Examined societies and cultures

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What was the theory of Social Conflict

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Social conflict theory is a social theory which argues that individuals and groups within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than consensus.

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Sociology developed why

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a response to dramatic changes

eg. industrialization,revolutions,women’s rights, and urbanization

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Who gave us the term sociology

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Auguste Comte

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What is positivism

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experiment, measurement, observation

look for positive verification

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Whos work did Harriet Martineeu further

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Auguste Comte

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Who was the first woman sociologist

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Harriet Martineau

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What did Harriet Martineau write

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Society in America and the First sociology methods book

37
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Write more on talked about sociologists on ss table

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OKKKKK

38
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Who influenced Herbert Spencer

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Influenced by Darwin (evolution) and Comte
(positivism)

39
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What did Herbert Spencer believe in

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Justified social inequalities

Harsh dude!

40
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Why should we understand social structure and probelms

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To be able to solve the problems

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What are the elements of social structure

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Social institutions=>social groups=>social statuses=>social roles

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What are the groups of a social institution

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Traditional S.I.’s, and Contemporary S.I.’s

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What are Traditional S.I.’s

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Economy, Family, Religion, Education, politics

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What are Contemporary S.I.’s

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Science and technology, Medicine, mass media, military, sport

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What is a social insitution

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An established and enduring pattern of social relationships

46
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What is structural functionalism (SF)

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bones: structures and functions that support society

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What did Emile Durkheim say about structural functionalism

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Social facts (# of suicides), why do people do what they do

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What are the 3 characteristics of every social fact

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  1. It was developed prior to and seperate from you as an individual
  2. It can be seen as a characteristic of a particular
    group
  3. It involves a constraining or coercing force that
    pushes individuals into acting in a particular way
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Three different types of functions that any structure can produce:

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  1. Manifest Functions:intended and easily recognized
  2. Latent Functions: unintended
  3. Latent Dysfunctions:unintended and produce socially negative consequences (e.g. conflict)
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What is the conlfict perspective (CP)

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4 C’s:
1. conflict
2.

51
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What are the 4 C’s of the conflict perspective

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4 C’s:
1. conflict
2. Class
3. Constestation
4. Change

Constestation: the action or process of disputing or arguing.

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What did Karl Marx say needed to be focused on

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The economic base that society is structured upon

53
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What conflict did Marx explore

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The conflict between the capitalist and the workers

54
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What did WEB Dubois write about

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Race conflict theory

55
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What is symbolic interactionism (SI)

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Looks at the meaning (symbols we use to make meaning) of the daily social interaction of individuals

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What did Max Weber have interested in

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Interested in the imapcts of capitalism, focused on the protestant work ethic

57
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What was the protestant work ethic

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To accumulate wealth and work earn your way into heaven

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