Chapter 1 Flashcards
the systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individua interactions
Sociology
a group of people who shape their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish their group from others
Society
the disciplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world
Social Sciences
the study of people “doing things together” - ?
Howard Becker
The 7 Social Sciences
Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, Political Sciences, History, Geography, Communication Studies, Sociology
a way of looking at the world through a sociological lens
Sociological Perspective
approaching the world without preconceptions in order to see things in a new way
Beginner’s Mind
Who promotes a shift in thinking borrowed from the Zen Buddhist tradition called the beginner’s mind?
Bernard McGrane
a sense of disorientation that ocurra when entering a radically new social or cultural environment
Culture shock
a quality of the kind that allows is to understand the real stop shop between our individual circumstances and larger social forces
Sociological Imagination
- describes a quality of mind that all great socia analyst posses, sociological imagination
- to understand the interplay of the micro world of the self and individual psychology and the macro world of larger social forces
C. Wright Mills
the level of analysis that studies face-to-face and small-group interactions in order to understand how they affect the larger patterns and structures of society
Microsociology
the level of analysis that studies large-scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of groups and individuals
Macrosociology
abstract propositions that explain the social world and make predictions about the future
Theories
a set of assumptions, theories, and perspectives that makes up the way of understanding social reality
Paradigm
