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Chapter 1 - The Sociological Imagination Flashcards

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1
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______ ________ belibed that sociology could bring together all the sciences and improve society

A

Auguste Compte

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what inspired auguste compte to bring together all the sciences and improve society with the feild of sociology

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the rapid social change in the period he lived in

Industry replacing agricultural ways of living
Democracies emerging from dictatorships
People moving from countryside to cities

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define society

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the large-scale human group that shares a common geographic territory and common institutions

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Societies are different than ______ (eg. canada is thought to have 2 societies - quebec and everything else)

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states

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Requires social _______ among members which occur in ________ ways

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interactions

patterned way

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________ is a system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values and materials which shape how we act and the physical elements of our society

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culture

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define dominant culture, counter culture, and subculture

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Dominant culture - is able to impose its values, beliefs and behaviours on a given society because of its political and economic power

Counterculture - a group that rejects certain elements of the dominant culture

Subcultures - differ from dom cult but not opposing it
Eg. students daily lives might differ significantly from a lawyers

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differentiate between high and popular culture

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High culture - the culture of a society’s elite (opera listening mofos)

Popular (or low) culture - the culture of the majority (rap listening mofos)

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define the sociological imagination

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Relationship between persons behav and experiences and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions

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10
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who coined the sociological imagination

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C. Wright Mills

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Mills said that once we make the connection between our ______ lives and the ______ culture we are apart of, only then we can see the relationship between our personal _______ and larger ______ ______

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Mills said that once we make the connection between our individual lives and the dier culture we are apart of, only then we can see the relationship between our personal troubles and larger public issues

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the gap between the advantaged and the disadvantaged in society is reffered to as

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social inequality

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what is this quote defining

“The differences between people that are consequential for the lives they lead, most particularly for the rights and opportunities they exercise and the rewards or privileges they enjoy”

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social inequality

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The type and amount of social inequality differs across _______ and over ______

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socities

time

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_______ ________ is person other than aboriginals peoples who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour

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visible minority

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The norms, values and rules of conduct that structure human interactions are known as ________ _______

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social institutions

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17
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names the 5 core institutions in modern canadian society

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Family
Education
Religion
Economy
Government

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Eg. school bells structuring routines
important because they generally help society to run smoothly (socialise us, teach us rules of society)
Aso serve a negative function - maintaining and reinforcing inequality, one of the main reading inequality persists

Schools are an example of an _______

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institutions

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__________ is the process of religion losing its authority over individuals and social life in general

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secularizations

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Marx, Weber and Durkheim all argue that the modernization of society would inevitable coincide with a decline in ________

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religiosity

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how did marx feel about the predicted decline i religiouslity

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Marx was happy about this because he thought religion tat an “opiate” of the masses - something that dulled our pain and sense so that we would not resist the great social inequality that we experience in our lives

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how did Durkheim feel about the predicted decline i religiousity

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Durkheim as more likely to mourn the the decline of religion - thought that religion was an important part of the glue that holds individuals together in society

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Weber looked at how new rational systems such as science and bureaucracies would make religious answers to our questions less _______

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relevant

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Canadians and canadian institutions are becoming less ________ over time

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religious

25
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what is religiosity

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Religiosity - a measure of how religious a person is

26
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what are the three core aims of sociology

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Try to identify themes in everyday life

Seek to assess critically what seems familiar and common sense

Examine how individuals both shape experiences in society and are shaped by society

27
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who argued sociology was diff from philosophy as is focused on empirical research
and diff from psych as it prioritised the social over the individual

A

EMile Durkheim

28
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Emile Durkheim saw sociology different as if focused on social facts, what are those?

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Social fact - the external social structures, norms and values that shape individuals’ actions

29
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why did DUrkheim say that society was more than just a groups of individuals

(hint: “ dominated by……”

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Believed that society is more than just a group of individuals but that the individual in society is “dominated by a moral reality greater than himself”

30
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“if suicide is strictly an individual psychological decision, why are suicide rates different from men and women, between religions, and between countries?”

who asked this and studied it

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Emile Durkheim

31
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what was emile durkheims explanation of the differences in suicide rates among different groups of people

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social facts - elements beyond the individual’s control

32
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_______ suicide - low levels of integration into soc

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egoistic

33
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______ suicide - high levels of integration into soc

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alturistic

34
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_______ suicide - low regulation

A

anomic

35
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_______ suicide - high regulation

A

fatalistic

36
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define the independent and dependent variable, as well as their relationship

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Independent variable - the ones that affect other variables
Dependent variable - the ones affected and measured

37
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______ is a qualitative method in which a researcher asks each participant the same set of questions and records their responses

A

interviewing

38
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__________ __________ - qualitative method in which researcher actively engages with a group of people and works to understand their lives and experiences through intensive involvement with them over extended periods of time

A

Participant observations/Ethnography

39
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___________ research giving questionnaires to a large number of people to learn about their characteristics, attitudes or behaviours

A

survey

40
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Individuals can only understand their own circumstances by also understanding what?

(acc to supplimentary reading)

A

others facing similar ones

41
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He argues this would allow people to see the diff bet “personal troubles of milieu” and “the public issues of social structure”(the individual and social problems

______ suggests we use the sociological imagination to make this differentiation

A

mills

42
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what is the meaning of capitulation

A

suck it up and accept the inevitable

43
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is the meaning of cynicism

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play it dirty since everyone already is

44
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what is the meaning of meritocracy

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what you acheive is based on your own merit
individual chouce determines social outcomes

45
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Hockey players in the NHL are usually born in the earlier months of the year
Its because those born earlier in the year are bigger and faster than their peers and, as a result, tend to get more game time, are selected for further development

this is NOT an example of what?

A

meritocacy

46
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how do selection, streaming and differentiated experiences affect outcome

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Selection - family situation and env have significant influences on life chances (money, networks, safety, etc)

Streaming - early family advantages affect things like schooling (type of school, school streams)

Differentiated experiences (university admission, jobs, etc)

47
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“A condition and a process in which preferential access to the good things in life is not randomly distributed, but patterned around those human differences that are defined as socially significant [gender, race, sexuality]”

what is this describing

A

social inequality

48
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why is social inequality considered to be “patterned”

A

SI reveals a pattern between the categories we in society use to differentiate certain things about others (eg. age, sexuality, gender, race)

49
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saying that men and women are different due to their genetics is an example of what?

A

biological determinism

50
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define biological determinism

A

postulates genetic and evolutionary differences between groups

51
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what SI explanation tells us about Implicit biases and the emotional bases of discrimination against marginalised people

A

psychological

52
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“inequality is based on the lifestyle or the norms and values people are socialised to have” what SI explanation whould say this

A

cultural

53
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in terms of social inequality we can draw a distinction between _______ vs _______ _________ explanations

A

individual vs social structural

54
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“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding ______”

A

both

55
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MIlls draws a distinction between personal troubles and public issues, define thme

A

Personal troubles - problems we face as individuals

Public issues - social problems that arise in society

56
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MIlls says we must take into account the _______ not ________

A

public issues
not
personal troubles

57
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in getting a new job these two things my be experienced, which is a personal trouble, which is a public issue

Interview skills, resume, training, experience

Economic inflation, urbanisation, labour, exploitation

A

first - personal
second public

58
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the resources taken from indigenous peoples are directly responsible for the ______ ______ of ________ experienced by most canadians

A

high standard of living

59
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what are the 6 desires in that indigenous textboox

A
  1. want indigenous communities to be healthy, strong and thriving, this means being able to practice their language and sulture whilst living, learning, and playing
  2. want all development of lands and resources to be respectful, environmentally friendly
  3. safe and secure homes for communities, including staying where we are for as long as we want
  4. want stolen lands retunred
  5. want to be able to buy fresh fruits and veggies out of season, and vehicles, inexpensive fual, want ability to take flights, want the comfrot of being able to buy things we dont need,
  6. want strong canadian economy to maintin high standard of living so we can afford desire 5, and/or all canadians to be able to experience this desire if they choose

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