Chapter 1 vocab Flashcards
Sociology
A science guided by the basic understanding that “the social matters: our lives are affected, not only by our individual characteristics but by our place place in the social world.
Sociological Imagination
The ability to look beyond the individual as the cause for success and failure and see how one’s society influences the outcome.
Micro
small scale
Macro
large scale
Solidarity
The level of connectedness and integration a person feels to others in the environment.
Social Control
The social mechanisms that regulate a person’s actions
Egoistic Suicides
Suicides that result from a lack of solidarity, occurring among those who have few social connections, feel isolated and alone, and are more likely to fall into despair.
Altruistic Suicides
Suicides that occur when the level of solidarity is exceptionally high and when the individual views the group’s interest as superior to all other interests.
Fatalistic Suicides
Suicides that result from too much social control
Anomic Suicides
Suicides that occur as a result of rapid change, usually economic.
Paradigm
A theoretical framework through which scientists study the world
Functionalism
A theoretical framework that defines society as a system of interrelated parts
Conflict Theory
A theoretical framework that views society as an unequal system that brings about conflict and change
Symbolic Interactionism
A theoretical framework that focuses on how people interact with others in their everyday lives.
Social Laws
Statements of fact that are unchanging under given conditions and can be used as ground rules for any kind of society.
