Chapter 1

Question 1

Social science of human behavior and society

• humans not animals
• behavior
• not alone

Answer 1

Sociology

Question 2

What does sociology deal with?

Answer 2

How we organize
What institutions we have
Where our are locations in society

Question 3

What does sociology do?

Answer 3

Teaches us to see how society influences our lives and the lives of others

• explains consequences of different social arrangements
• understand the influence of major changes on people

Question 4

Behavior between two or more people that is given a meaning

Answer 4

Social interaction

Question 5

Organize pattern of social relationships and institutions that together constitute a society

Answer 5

Social structure

Question 6

Establish an organized system of social behavior with a particular and recognized purpose

Answer 6

Social institutions

Question 7

The alteration of society over time

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Social change

Question 8

The ability to see social patterns that influence individual and group life

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Social perspective

Question 9

One of the first to write about the social perspective and his classic book the sociological imagination

Answer 9

Charles Wright Mills

Question 10

The ability to see societal patterns influence the individuals as well as groups of individuals

Answer 10

Sociological imagination

Question 11

What does the sociological imagination permit you to do?

Answer 11

Permits us to see that something is seemingly personal as how you look arises from a social contacts not just individual behavior

Question 12

What two things does sociological imagination help distinguish between?

Answer 12

Troubles and issues

Question 13

Privately felt problems that spring from events or feelings in a persons life

Answer 13

Troubles

Question 14

Affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of society

Answer 14

Issues

Question 15

Reverse the careful observation not just conjecture or opinion

Answer 15

Empirical

Question 16

Refers to looking behind the facades of every day life unmasking tendency of sociology

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Debunking

Question 17

The variety of group experience is that result from a social structure of society

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Diversity

Question 18

• careful and systematic observations
• striving for objectivity by establishing a critical distance and Riggs emanation of results
• reasoning and logical analysis

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Empirical discipline

Question 19

What is society?

Answer 19

A group of people whose members interact reside in a definable area and share culture

Question 20

Persons place in society

Some of social, societal, personal factors that influence our lives

Answer 20

Social location

Question 21

18th 19 century Europe had an influence on the development of modern sociology

Answer 21

Enlightenment

Question 22

System of thought that still grounded today and which scientific observation and description is considered the highest form of knowledge

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Positivism

Question 23

Wrote that public rituals have special purposes in society and describe this as societyis a subject to be studied separately from the sum of the individual to compose it
His work is the basis of functionalism and created the term social facts indicate those social patterns that are external individuals

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Emile Durkheim

Question 24

What is Durkheim’s contribution?

Answer 24

Discovery of social basis of human behavior

Question 25

Breakdown of social norms

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Anomie

Question 26

Explain how capitalism explains society

Answer 26

Karl Marx

Question 27

And economic system of relationships among different classes including capitalists the proletariat The petty and the homeless

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Capitalism

Question 28

So I cannot mix as a basic organizing element of society and then I had three basic dimensions political economic and cultural he created a multi dimensional analysis of

Answer 28

Max Weber

Question 29

Refers to the understanding social behavior from the point of you of those engaged in it

Answer 29

Vesterhen

Question 30

Theoretical framework that center face-to-face social interaction

Answer 30

Macrosociology

Question 31

What are the for theoretical traditions that center face-to-face social interaction?

Answer 31

Functionalism conflict theory symbolic interaction feminist theory

Question 32

Seated and intended goals of social behavior

Answer 32

Manifest functions

Question 33

Neither stated our intended goals of social behavior

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Latent functions

Question 34

Interprets each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole (individual values) believes you are responsible for your own doings

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Functionalism

Question 35

Emphasizes the role of cord and power in society and the ability of some to influence and control others emphasizes strife and fiction

Answer 35

Conflict theory

Question 36

And the sizes immediate social interaction as the place where society exists - people behave based on what they believe not what is objectively true

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Symbolic interaction

Question 37

What is the criticism of conflict theory?

Answer 37

This regards independence of ideas and culture | Underestimates cohesion and consensus

Question 38

What is the criticism of structural functionalism?

Answer 38

Emphasizes functions of the dysfunction is poverty is functional him and neglects negative implications of social order