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Chapter 1 - What Is Sociology? Flashcards

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Sociology

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Studies human society and social behavior

-more complex and advanced societies

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Social Sciences

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Disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and the functions of human society in a scientific manner

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Social interaction

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How people relate to one another and influence each other’s behavior

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Social phenomena

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Observable facts or events that involve human society

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Anthropology

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Comparative study of past and present cultures

  • figure out culture based on artifacts
  • simple, less advanced present cultures
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Psychology

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Study of behavior and mental processes

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Social psychology

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Study of how social environment affects an individual’s behavior and personality

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Economics

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Analyses the choices people make to satisfy their needs and wants
- effects of certain economic factors on groups of people

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Political science

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Examination of the principles, organization, and operation of government

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History

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Studies the people and events of the past

-used to explain current social behaviors

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What was the impact of the Internet on sociology?

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  • created new form of isolation

- access to more information

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What are parts of the sociological perspective?

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  1. Look at life in scientific, systematic way - not what’s in media
  2. Look at hidden meanings behind actions
  3. Behavior is influenced by social factors - learned by others
  4. “Viewing the world from others’ eyes”
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What is sociological imagination? Whose idea was this?

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The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life. - C. Wright Mills

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What were social and political changes during the Industrial Revolution?

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  1. Rural economy gave way to large scale production
  2. Factory replaced home
  3. Growth of cities
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What factors lead to creation of sociology?

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  1. ) Rapid social and political changes during industrial revolution
  2. ) Urban population growth
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What did urban population growth cause?

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  1. Higher number of unemployed
  2. Housing shortages
  3. Crime and pollution increased
  4. Impersonal nature of city living
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Who was Auguste Comte?

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Founder of sociology

  • applied methods of physical science
  • looked at cause and effect of French Revolution
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What were Auguste Comte’s area of study?

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Social order and social change

  1. Social statics
  2. Social dynamics
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Social statics

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Certain processes that hold society together

- family, government, economics, education

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Social dynamics

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Definite processes that cause societal change

-war, elections, shift in power, media, technology

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Who was Harriet Martineau?

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She published “Society in America”

  • reported on marriage, family, race relations, education, and religion
  • objectivity
  • thought scholars should advocate change to solve the problems they studied
  • women’s rights, religious tolerance, end of slavery
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What did Herbert Spencer say?

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Society is a set of interdependent parts that work together to maintain the system over time

  • social change and unrest are natural occurrences in evolution toward perfection and stability
  • best aspects of society survive
  • social Darwinism
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What is Social Darwinism?

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Only the fittest societies survive

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Who influenced Herbert Spencer?

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Charles Darwin

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What did Karl Marx believe?

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Society is divided into two classes

  • bourgeoisie
  • proletariat
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Bourgeoisie

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Capitalists, own materials and methods of production

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Proletariat

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Workers, own labor

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What would class conflict cause? Class conflict is the primary cause of social change.

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Proletariat would overthrow power and a classless society would form

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Who were the early European scholars?

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Karl Marx, Herbert spencer, Harriet Martineau, Auguste Comte

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What were Emily Durkheim’s beliefs?

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Society is a set of interdependent parts with each having a specific functionality

  • only study observable things
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Function

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Consequences that an element of society produced for the maintenance of its social system

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What was Emile Durkheim’s focus?

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Functions of religion in maintaining social order

-shared beliefs and values

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What was the first sociological study on?

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Suicide

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What was Max Weber’s focus?

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Separate groups within society

- effect of society on individuals

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Verstehen

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Attempt to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions (in someone else’s shoes)
-Weber

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Ideal type

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General description of essential characteristics of a feature of society

  • school, government body
  • Weber
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What was the Chicago School Sociologists focus?

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Group interactions and impact of society in individual development

  • lead to INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE
  • should include practical solutions to social problems
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What did Jane Addams do?

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Opened Hull House which offered welfare, educational, and recreational services for the poor

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What did Addams write?

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Hull House Maps and Papers

  • wages, sweatshops, child labor, living conditions
  • first serious discussion about industrialization and urbanization
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Who was W.E.B. DuBois?

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An African American sociologist that wrote The Philadelphia Negro.

  • lived in black community
  • first empirical community study
  • race was an issue that needed to be addressed
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Theory

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Explanations of the relationships among particular phenomena

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Theoretical perspective

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Set of assumptions about the nature of things

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Functionalist perspective

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View society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system

  • held together through consensus
  • functions of family, religion, education and economy
  • positive consequences for society as a whole
  • dysfunction, manifest function, latent function
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Dysfunction

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Negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system

  • creates social problems
  • can lead to social change
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Manifest function

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Win tended and recognized consequence of some element of society

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Latent function

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Unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society

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Conflict perspective

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Focus on the focus in society that promote competition and change

  • those that have power control who don’t
  • interested in violent and nonviolent competition
  • decision making in family, relationships in racial groups, workers
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Feminist perspective

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View society as a gender/sex system in which men dominate women

  • things considered masculine are more highly valued
  • reinforced by social institution of
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Interactionist perspective

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Focuses on how individuals interact with one another

  • interested in meaning individuals attach to actions
  • TOI- child development, relationship within small groups, mate selection
  • symbols
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Symbol

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Anything that represents something else

-must be accepted

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Symbolic interaction

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How people use symbols when interacting

-meaning, language, thought

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Macro sociology

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Study of large scale systems or society as a whole

  • functionalist
  • conflict
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Micro sociology

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Looking at small group settings and the face to face interactions among group members
-INTERACTIONIST

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Globalization

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Development of economic, political, and social relationships that stretch worldwide

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