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What 3 questions does sociology attempt to answer?

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  • nature of identity
  • relationship of individual to society
  • relationships between individuals
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The study of human behavior in society

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sociology

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“Either/Or”

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“Both/And”

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“Both/And”

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To be a sociologist one must use both …

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theory AND perspective.

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How many types of sociology are there?

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Infinitely many

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Is human behavior determined by nature or nurture?

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BOTH

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Humans adapt to …

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social context.

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Before sociology there was the …

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“Age of Reason” or “Enlightenment”

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What is “social contract” and who coined it?

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Individuality

Locke

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What is “general will” and who coined it?

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Rousseau

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Founder of sociology

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Auguste Comte

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Who developed the stages of sociology and what were they?

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Comte

  • religious
  • metaphysical
  • scientific
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Who coined “statics” and “dynamics” and what were they?

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Comte

Statics-study of order, persistence, and organization

Dynamics-study of processes of social change

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Who thought democracies can enhance OR erode personal liberties?

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Who supported the conflict theory?

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Karl Marx

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Who supported structural/ functionalism?

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Emile Durkheim

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Who supported symbolic interactions?

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Max Weber

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Author of Communist Manifesto

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Marx

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Didn’t support capitalism and believed there would be a worker rebellion.

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Marx

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Accepted constant societal struggle, mainly coming from class.

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Marx

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Workers for the rich

Poor

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Proletariat

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Rich class
Upper echelon
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Bourgeois

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Supported a utopian communist ideal

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Marx

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Study suicide heavily

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Durkheim

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The ability to see the connection between out individual identities and the social contexts (family, friends, other institutions) in which we find ourselves.

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sociological imagination

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What is integration?

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How connected we feel to society

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Regulation

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The amount that our individual freedom is constrained

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Connected to integration and regulation

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Durkheim

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Coined social “solidarity”

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Durkheim

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29
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Social “solidarity” is what two things?

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Mechanical and organic

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Max Weber believed that sociology should be …

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Interpretive and value free

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Define interpretive and value free

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Interpretive-context

Value free-unbiased

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Stressed rationality in the modern world

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Weber

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Coined the “iron cage”

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Weber

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First to use statistics

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Durkheim

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Added “status” and “party” to Marx’s theory

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Weber

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Define “status”.

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The relationship to consumption

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Define “party”.

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Voluntary groups to make ones voice heard

38
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Compared economy to religion

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Weber

39
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Who chose to study FORMS of social interaction

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Georg Simmel

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List some forms of interaction

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Competition, exchange, secrecy, domination

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Who questioned what makes it easier for persons to discover and express their individuality

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Simmel

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Believed class to be the most significant division among people

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Weber

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First female foreign correspondent

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Margaret Fuller

44
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Who introduced the concept of self-reliance among women?

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Fuller

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Frederick Douglas was a …

Two answers

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Slave and later an abolitionist

46
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Claimed slavery system was a “learned behavior”

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Douglas

47
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Against “social Darwinism”

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Lester Ward

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What is social Darwinism?

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Each succeeding society more successful than the one before it

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What is “social telesis”?

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The thought that societal evolution is informed by purposeful action

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What did WOMEN AND ECONOMICS focus on?

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Women’s subordination and it’s function in evolution

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Who wrote WOMEN AND ECONOMICS , Herald , or “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Coined the term “sisterhood”

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Fuller

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Author of THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS

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Thorstein Veblen

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What did The Theory of the Leisure Class focus on?

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The split between the “productive class” and the “pecuniary class”

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Define “productive class”

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Those who work

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Civil rights activist , social scientist , political militant , essayist , poet

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W. E. B DuBois

57
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Define “pecuniary class”

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Those who have money / owners

58
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Who was an advocate for women’s issues?

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Gilman

59
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Founder of the pan-African movement

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DuBois

60
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Who developed the “I” and “me”?

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George Herbert Mead

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Define “I”

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The part of us that is inherent or biological

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Define “me”

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The part of us that is self-conscious and created by observing ourselves in interaction

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Coined “generalized other”

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Mead

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Define “generalized other”

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A persons notion of the common values, norms, and expectations of other people in a society

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1930 thru 1960 was …

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Development period of the field

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What two questions came out do the 30’s-60’s?

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  • What could sociology contribute to the study of self?

- What processes ensure social order?

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Define symbolic interactionism

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How an individual’s interaction with his or her environment help people develop a sense of self

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Define dramaturgical model

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“Backstage” “front stage” mentality

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Coined symbolic interactionism

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Blumer 1937

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Define “structural functionalism”

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A paradigm that contends that all social life consists of several distinct , integrated levels that enable the world to find stability, order, and meaning

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Define “paradigm”

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An example, patter, or model

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What are how two sociological functions?

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Manifest and latent

73
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Define “manifest”

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The intended consequences of an action or event

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Define “latent”

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An unintended function

75
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Define “conflict theory”

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Suggests the dynamics of society are the result of the conflict among different groups

76
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Globalization

Micro or macro

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Macro

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Multiculturalism

Micro or macro

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Micro

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Define “globalization”

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Interconnecting

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Multiculturalism means …

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undersranding

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Define “macro level analysis”

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Analysis of large scale patterns or social structures like economies or political systems

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Define “microlevel analysis”

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Analysis of small scale patterns like individual interactions or small groups dynamics

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Interrelated forces are …

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forces that hold is together and that drive us apart.

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Define “McDonaldization”

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The homogenizing spread of consumerism around the globe

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Define “modernism”

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A belief in progress that challenged tradition, religion, and aristocracies as remnants of the past and saw industry, democracy, and science as the wave of the future

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Modernism claims

Religion to …

Mechanical to …

Feudal to …

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… science

… organic

… capitalist

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Define “postmodernism”

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Emphasizes that a particular reality is a social construction by a particular group, community, or class

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Founder of the NAACP

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DuBois

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