Chapter 1: Sociological Imagination

Question 1

Agency

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Social structures

Question 3

Socialization

Question 4

Sociological Imagination

Answer 4

lense to view people as products of their history/environment/biography. Understands individual choices influenced by larger social trends/structures.

Question 5

deregulation

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ex. Employment, Wages, and benefits being lowered during the end of the 20th century

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Nested Analysis

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Web of social relationships that connect the micro to the macro in specific social contexts

Question 7

Social Stratification

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How people are ranked in a society based on particular groups by hierarchical layers.

Question 8

Intersectionality

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How being apart of multiple social groups affects you

Question 9

Structures

Answer 9

Social constraints out of an individual’s control

Question 10

Conflict Theory

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Idea that conflict is the main drive in societal change, and that social order is the illusions of this conflict.

Question 11

Rationalizaion

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Introduced by Max Weber and is the idea of traditional values, customs, and emotions being replaced by logical rules and reason.

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Social Fact

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An unseen force of social influence that affects individuals

ex.social norms,

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Functionalism

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Developed by Emile Durkheim, and saw society function in various parts that work together for the good of the whole.

Ex. (School = brain) (heart = hospital) what do they do for society?

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Manifest Functions

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Explicit goals of a particular function/action in society

Ex.Education = teach people

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Latent Functions

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unintended results of functions/actions not immediately apparent

Ex.Education = education gap

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Dysfunctional

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Actions that have negative effects on society that can be changed

Question 17

Positivism

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Societal study through specifically empirical based evidence (controlled experiments or statistics)

Question 18

Positionality

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Social location and privilege

Question 19

Snowball Sampeling

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When the interviewee tells you about another possible individual to interview

Question 20

Ethnographic Approach

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Research immerses themselves in the culture they are attempting to research

Ex. (fieldwork, participant interviews, etc.)

Question 21

Socialization

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Process through which individuals learn the written and unwritten rules of society