Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination

Question 1

The word Sociology was coined by

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Auguste Comte

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Society

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Largest scale human group that shares a common geographic territory and common institutions

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Culture

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System of behaviours, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and materials

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Counter culture

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Group that rejects certain elements of the dominant culture

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Subcultures

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The way a lawyer dresses opposed to a plumber

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High culture

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The culture of society’s elites

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Popular (or low) culture

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Culture of the majority

Rap and pop music

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High vs low culture

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Shakespeare Vs Twilight

Opera vs Rock

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Sociology

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The systematic study of society

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3 core areas of sociology

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1) study of social inequality
2) the role of social institutions
3) the study of social change

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Social inequality

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The gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged

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Viable minority

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Persons, other than aboriginal, who are non Caucasian in race or non-white in color

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Social institutions

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The norms, values, and rules of conduct that structure hummable interactions

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5 core social institutions

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The family, education, religion, the economy, and government

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Secularization

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The process of a religion losing its authority over individuals and social life in general

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Religiosity

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Measure of how religious a person is

Question 17

Society with extremely high levels of intergration commit this type of suicide

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Altruistic suicide

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Society with extremely low levels of intergration people commit this kind of suicide

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Egoistic suicide

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Societies with excessively low regulation commit this kind of suicide

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Anomic suicide

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Society with excessively high regulation commit this kind of suicide

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Fatalistic suicide

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Research question

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Focus on the relationship between two variables

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Variables

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Any construct that can take on a value

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Independent variables

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Ones that affect other variables

With no light, the height of the tree won’t grow

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Dependent variable

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Affected by independent variable

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Quantitative research

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Focused on things that can be counted

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Survey research (quantitative)

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Giving questionnaires

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Experiments (quantitative)

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Researcher looks at the effects of some factor

Has treatment and control

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Qualitative research

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Examine smaller number of cases in more detail

The meaning of action rather than numbers

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Interviewing (qualitative)

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Researcher asks questions and records responses

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Participant observation (ethnography) (qualitative)

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Researcher works with group for a long time to understand their lives

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Who studies suicide

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Emile durkeheim

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Primary socialization

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Unwritten rules like how to have a conversation

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Secondary socialization

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Individuals learn the attitudes and appropriate behaviours