Chapter One (Definition, Invitation, Terms, and Imagination)

Question 1

The scientific study of social behavior and human groups. It focuses on social relationships; how those relationships influence people’s behavior; and how societies, the total of those relationships, develop and change:

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Sociology

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It is the study of the interaction of people in groups and of the influence of those groups on human behavior generally and on society’s other institutions and groups:

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Sociology

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An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society:

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Sociological Imagination

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A set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior:

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A theory

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The loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective:

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Anomie

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A construct or model for evaluating specific cases:

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Ideal Type

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The division of an individual’s identity into two or more social realities:

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Double Consciousness

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Concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations:

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Macrosociology

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The study of small groups, often through experimental means:

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Microsociology

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Refers to noneconomic goods, such as family background and education:

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Cultural Capital

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Refers to the collective benefit of networks, which are built reciprocal trust:

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Social Capital

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Emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability:

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Functionalist Perspective

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Open, stated, and conscious functions of institutions:

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Manifest Functions

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Unconscious or unintended functions that may reflect hidden purposes of an institution:

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Latent Functions

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Assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power of the allocation of resources:

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Conflict Perspective

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Sees inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization:

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The Feminist View

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Generalize about everyday forms of social interaction to explain society as a whole:

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The Interactionist Perspective

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A particular type of interactionist method in which people are seen as theatrical performers:

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Dramaturgical Approach

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The use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations:

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Applied Sociology

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Dedicated to facilitating change by altering social relationships or restructuring social institutions:

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Clinical Sociology

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The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas:

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Globalization

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Appointed as one of the first sociology professors in France, he was responsible for pioneering theoretical work on suicide:

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Emile Durkheim

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He attempted to understand social behavior by relaying “sociological imagination”:

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C. Wright Mills

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The early sociologist who cofounded the famous Chicago settlement Hull-House:

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Jane Addams

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Adapted Charles Darwin’s evolutionary view of “survival of the fittest” by arguing that it is “natural” that some people are rich while others are poor:

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Herbert Spencer

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An early Black sociologist, active in the struggle for a racially egalitarian society, who was critical of theorists who seemed content with the status quo:

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W.E.B. DuBois

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In Society in America, originally published in 1837, this English scholar examined religion, politics, child rearing, and immigration in the young nation:

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Harriet Martineau

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Widely regarded as the founder of the interactionist perspective:

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George Herbert Mead

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The American sociologist who popularized the dramaturgical approach:

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Erving Goffman

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Examined the industrial societies of his time and saw the factory as the center of conflict between the exploiters and the exploited:

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Karl Marx

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The French who coined the term sociology:

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Auguste Comte

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The American sociologist of the early 1900s who saw smaller groups as the seedbeds of society:

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Charles Horton Cooley

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The German sociologist and historian who developed the key conceptual tool of the ideal type:

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Max Weber

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Remember for his insistence that behavior cannot be fully understood in individualistic terms; it must be understood within a larger social context:

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Emile Durkheim

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Produced a theory that is one of the most frequently cited explanations of deviant behavior. He noted different ways in which people attempt to achieve success in life:

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Robert Merton

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Told his students that they should employ Verstehen, the German word for “understanding” or “insight,” in their intellectual work:

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Max Weber

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Argued that society was fundamentally divided between classes in pursuit of their own class interests:

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Karl Marx

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He dominated American sociology for over four decades with his advocacy of functionalism:

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Talcott Parsons

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The Columbia University sociologist who emphasized that sociology should strive to bring together the “macro” and “micro” approaches to the study of society:

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Robert Merton

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The French sociologist who wrote about how capital (cultural and social) sustains individuals and families from one generation to the next:

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Pierre Bourdieu

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Saw any society as a vast network of connected parts, each of which helps to maintain the system as a whole:

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Talcott Parsons

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Concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations:

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Macrosociology

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The study of small groups, often through experimental means:

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Microsociology

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Refers to the body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observations:

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Science

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An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society:

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Sociological Imagination

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This awareness allows us to comprehend the links between our immediate personal social settings and the remote, impersonal social world that surrounds and helps to shape us:

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Sociological Imagination

Question 47

The Sociological Imagination works between ______ ______ and _______ _______:

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Personal Troubles; Public Issues

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_____ occur within the character of the individual and the range of their immediate relations with others; they have to do with themselves and those limited areas of social life of which they are directly and personally aware:

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Troubles

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Troubles are a ______ matter:

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Private

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_____ have to do with matters that surpass these local environments of the individual and the range of their inner life:

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Issues

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An issue is a ______ matter:

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Public

Question 52

List the 5 parts from Invitation to Sociology:

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1. Humans
2. Curiosity
3. Quest for Knowledge
4. Uncomfortability
5. Nothing is Off Limits