Chapter 1-Soc Imangination

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Sociology

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Systematic study of a relationship between the individual and the society and the consequence of difference

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Sociological imagination

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Recognition of the interdependent relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives

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Sociology as a discipline

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Expands awareness and analysis of the human social relationship, culture, and institutions that shape both our lives and human history

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Private troubles

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Problems that face our intermediate relationships with specific individuals

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Public issues

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Problems that are consequence of positions we occupy within a social structure

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Agency

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Freedom to choose and act, may lead to breaking away from society guild-line behaviors

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Social inequality

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Differing amounts of wealth, power, and prestige held by members of society and reveal its consequence

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Social science

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Studies social features of humans and how they interact and change

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Natural science

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Systematic study of physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change

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Auguste Comte

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(1798-1857) coined the term sociology, theory of positivity, social stability, and social change

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Harriet Martineau

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(1802-1876) attention to social class distinctions, first book of sociological methods

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Émile Durkheim

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(1858-1917) understanding behavior within larger social context, religion reinforces group solidarity, social forces shape action, studied suicide, shaped French education

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Karl Marx

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(1818-1883) significances of power and analysis of control over resources

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Max Weber

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(1864-1920) has the power is determined by social status, organizational resources, social class, and control of material resources

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Macrosociology

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Concentrates on large scale phenomena or entire civilization

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Microsociology

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Stresses the study of small groups and the analysis of everyday experiences and interactions

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Erving Goffman

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(1922-1982) method that compares everyday life to the setting of the theater and stage and sees people as theatrical performer

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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(1868-1963) combined emphasis an analysis of everyday lived experiences with commitment to investing power and inequality based on race, cofounder NAACP

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Ida Wells Barnett

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(1862-1931) feminist, argued that societies can be judged on the principles they claim to believe in match of their actions, prevented racial segregation at Chicago public schools

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Jane Addams

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(1860-1935) combined intellectual inquiry with social service work and political activism for the purpose of assisting the under privilege, creating more egalitarian society, confounded Hull House

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Functionalist perspective

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Views society as living organisms in which each part contributes to its survival

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Conflict perspective

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Distribution of power and the allocation of resources in society

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Interactionist perspective

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Everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole

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Personal sociology

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Recognizing the impact their individual position has on who they are and how they think and act, taking responsibility for the impact of their action on others

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Applied sociology

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Discipline of sociology with specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizatio

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Clinical sociology

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Change directly by working to alter organizations or restructure social institutions

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Globalization

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Drawing together people from around the world with different values, political views, and customs to give them opportunities to interact

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Anomie

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Weak sense of social solidarity due to a lack of agreed upon rule to guide behavior

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Alienation

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Loss of control over our creative human capacity to produce, separation from the products we make, and isolation from a fellow producers

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Sociological theory

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Considers, analyze, and/or explain objects of social, reality from a sociological perspective, connections between individuals concepts in order to organize and substation sociological knowledge

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Race

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Human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical characteristics

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Gender

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Attitudes, behaviors, norms, and roles that a society or culture associates with an individual’s sex

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Religion

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Organized and integrated set of beliefs, behaviors and norms centered on basic social needs and values