Chapter 1: What Is Sociology?

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Studies human society and social behavior

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Sociology

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

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Social sciences

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

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Social interaction

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Observable facts or events that involve human society

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Social phenomena

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Comparative study of past and present cultures

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Anthropology

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

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Social psychology

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Analyzes the choices people make to satisfy their needs and wants

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Economics

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Examination of the principles, organization and operation of government.

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Political science

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Studies and the people and events of the past

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History

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Helped create new form of isolation.

Broadens horizons and access to more information

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Impact of the Internet

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Explanations of the relationships among particular phenomena

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Theories

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Set of assumptions about the nature of things

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Theoretical perspectives

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

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Functionalist perspective

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

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Dysfunction

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Intended and recognized consequence of some element of society

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Manifest function

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Unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society

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Latent function

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Focuses on the forces in society that promote competition and change

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Conflict perspective

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

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Feminist perspective

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Focuses of how individuals interact with one another in society

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Interactionist perspective

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How people use symbols when interacting

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Symbolic interaction

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Study of large scale systems of society as a whole

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Macro sociology

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Study of small scale settings and the face to face interactions among group members

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Micro sociology

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

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Globalization