Chapter 1: The Sociological Imagination Flashcards
The word Sociology was coined by
Auguste Comte
Society
Largest scale human group that shares a common geographic territory and common institutions
Culture
System of behaviours, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and materials
Counter culture
Group that rejects certain elements of the dominant culture
Subcultures
The way a lawyer dresses opposed to a plumber
High culture
The culture of society’s elites
Popular (or low) culture
Culture of the majority
Rap and pop music
High vs low culture
Shakespeare Vs Twilight
Opera vs Rock
Sociology
The systematic study of society
3 core areas of sociology
1) study of social inequality
2) the role of social institutions
3) the study of social change
Social inequality
The gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged
Viable minority
Persons, other than aboriginal, who are non Caucasian in race or non-white in color
Social institutions
The norms, values, and rules of conduct that structure hummable interactions
5 core social institutions
The family, education, religion, the economy, and government
Secularization
The process of a religion losing its authority over individuals and social life in general
Religiosity
Measure of how religious a person is
Society with extremely high levels of intergration commit this type of suicide
Altruistic suicide
Society with extremely low levels of intergration people commit this kind of suicide
Egoistic suicide
Societies with excessively low regulation commit this kind of suicide
Anomic suicide
Society with excessively high regulation commit this kind of suicide
Fatalistic suicide
Research question
Focus on the relationship between two variables
Variables
Any construct that can take on a value
Independent variables
Ones that affect other variables
With no light, the height of the tree won’t grow
Dependent variable
Affected by independent variable
