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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Sociological imagination

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Highlights how society affects the experiences we have and choices we make
Transforms personal troubles into social issues

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Sociology

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The study of human society

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Society

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People who live within same territory and Share patterns of behavior

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Culture

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Where is life including values beliefs and behaviors

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Sociology key insight

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Many personal troubles people face are really social issues

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C Wright Mills

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Used sociological imagination
involving
People feel that their lives are series of traps and cannot over come them

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Social problems

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Effects the well-being of some members of society and is a matter of public controversy
A social problem hurts people by causing them harm

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Social constructionist approach

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that social problems arise as people define conditions in need of change social problems have a subjective foundation

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What plays a part in social construction of social problems

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Objective facts and subjective perceptions

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Claims making

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convince others that an issue is a social problem I

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Stages in social movement

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Emergence, coalescence, formalization Decline

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Emergence

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Initial claims are made

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Coalesence

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Claims are publicized

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Formalization

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Claims recognized as part of political debate

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Eight Statements of social problems

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Result from ways in which society operates
Are not caused by bad people
Socially constructed as people define a condition as harmful or need to change
See problems differently
Problems change over time
Subjective values as well as objective facts
Social problems can be solved
Social problems are related

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Theory

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A statement of how and why specific facts are related

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Theoretical approach

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Basic image of society that guides theory and research

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What are the 4 theoretical approaches

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Structural functional
Social conflict
Feminist
Symbolic interaction

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Structural functional approach

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See society as a system of interrelated parts

Described as social institutions major spheres of social life or societal sub systems to meet human basic need

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Social pathology theory

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Structural functional theory treat social problems as disruption of society normal operation

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Structural functional sociologists names

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Herbert Spencer

Charles Darwin

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Herbert Spencer

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Poverty is the result of some people liking the ability of discipline to work

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Charles Darwin

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Survival of the fittest rich as society’s most successful members or are unable to keep up

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Social disorganization

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Problems arise when Society breaks down due to social change that occurs to rapidly

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Social conflict approach

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See society as divided by inequality and conflict

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Social conflict sociologists names

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Karl Marx

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Chicago’s school

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Type of structural functional theory linked problems not to deficient people but social disorganization

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Social disorganization theory

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Problems arise when society breaks down due to social change that occurs to rapidly

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Dysfunctions

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Negative functions of social patterns

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Karl Marx

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Believed that social problems or an evitable result of the normal operation of a capitalist economy

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which businesses are privately owned by people

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Multi cultural theory

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Siri under social conflict theory explains how social problems arise from racial and ethnic inequality

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What critics say about social conflict approach

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Overstating the extent of social divisions

Rejects scientific objectivity in favor of political activism

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Feminist approach

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Gender conflict approach

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Feminism

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Political movement that seeks the social equality of women in men

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Feminism is like

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Marxism and multiculturalism at six to change the status quo just as a challenge is the structural functional of your society

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Criticisms of feminism

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Over states quality and separates the sexes

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Symbolic interaction theory

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Say society as the product of individuals interacting with one another

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Learning theory

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Part of symbolic interaction

People learn troublesome attitudes and behaviors from others around them

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Nannette Davis

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Symbolic interaction theorist
People learn rolls one step at a time reaching the point where it becomes their livelihood and part of their social identity

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Symbolic interaction

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Explorers how people socially construct reality

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Structural functional basic image of society

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System of interrelated parts all of which contribute to its operation

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Structural functional approach how do we understand problems

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Societies basically good problems are the result of deficient people to rapid of change or dysfunctional consequences

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Social conflict and feminist approaches image of society

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Social conflict see society as a system of social any quality in which some categories of people benefit at the expense of others
Feminist approach highlights in equality between men and women

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Social conflict and feminist approaches how do I understand problems

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Problems result from inequality in terms of class Marxism gender gender conflict theory and feminism and race multiculturalism

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Symbolic interaction what is the basic image of society

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There’s social interaction we can struck the variable and changing reality to experience

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Symbolic interaction How do we understand problems

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People learn attitudes and skills for all patterns of behavior this approach explores how people may or may not define situations as problems

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Barbara ehrenreich

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Spent months working along. Low wage workers willingness to work hard is not enough to escape poverty

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Lois benjamin

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Investigated the problem of racial prejudice success provides no escape from racial prejudice

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William Wilson

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Poor living in Chicago People who live in poverty for many years deal with a host of social problems joblessness

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4 major research methods

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Survey
Field research
Experimental research
Secondary analysis

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Survey

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Research method in which subjects respond to items on a questionnaire for interview

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Field research

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Research method for observing people while joining them in every day activities

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Experiment

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Research method investigating cause-and-effect relationships under controlled conditions

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Secondary analysis

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Research method that makes use of data originally collected by others

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Three tips that make you a critical reader

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Researchers to find their terms
Researchers is never perfect
Researchers may spend their statistics

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Social policy

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Formal strategies that affect our society operates

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To know if the policy works we must ask these questions three

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How do we measure success
What are the cost of a policy or program
Who should get helped

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Political spectrum

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Continuing representing arrange a political attitudes from left to right

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Three political sides

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Conservatives liberals radicals

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Conservatives

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Conservatives is a political view the Pastores wisdom developed by countless generations
Respectful of traditions and tries to conserve what other generations have learned

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Liberals

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Think that people should be free from past to decide on their own questions on how to live
People are allowed to make choices for themselves

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Radicals

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Believes that the system should be changed right down to its roots
Society is responsible for any number of social problems

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Social issues

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Political debates involving moral judgments about how people should live

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People who lean to the left

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Social liberals they think people should be free to shape their own lives

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Leaning right

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Social conservatives are respectful of traditional values and went to conserve them

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Economic issues

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Political debates about how a society should produce and distribute material resources

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Economic liberals

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Lean to the left favor government regulation of economy in order to reduce inequality free market system works to the advantage of a select few the rich

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Economic conservatives

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Lean to the right they call for a smaller role in government in the economy The market not government officials can segues levels were fairly and efficiently

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Social problems are socially constructed

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Social stratification

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Society system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy social stratification produces social classes

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Social classes

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Categories of people who have similar access and resources and opportunities

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Income

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Salary or wages from a job for us earnings from investments in

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Wealth

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Value of all economic assets owned by a person and family minus any debts

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Taxation

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An important government policies that affects income inequality

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Governments what is the tax on what we earn and buy for three major reasons

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Provide the government with money to operate
To discourage types of behavior like drinking
Could be a tool to Redistribute income and reduce inequality

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How does the government reduce economic inequalities

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Progressive taxation

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Progressive taxation

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A policy that raises tax rates as income increases taking more from the rich and giving it to the poor Robin Hood Theory

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Poverty line

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An income level said by the US government for the purpose of counting the poor

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What does the poverty line represents

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A dollar amount of annual income below which the government defines a person or family as for eligible for government assistance

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Feminization of poverty

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The trend of women making up an increasing share of the poor

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Who are the poor

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Children white people women single mothers in rural areas

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The working poor

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Low wage work really pays much more than the federal Melissa nominee hourly wage

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Reasons for not working

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Health problems lacks of skills or confidence not being able to pay for childcare

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Persistent poverty counties

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Counties in the United States where the poverty rate has reached 20% and remain there for at least 30 years

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