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Fundamentals of Sociology Flashcards

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Sociology

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The Study of Society

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Social Construction

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An idea/practice that a group of people agree exists; people often forget it exists, it just is so it gains power from its existence being taken for granted; often times man made

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Social Order

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An awareness of social norms/values that give us a distinct sense of self; we only realize social order exists when it is broken (ex: a seating chart that gets moved around)

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Social Change

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A change/entity that is always dynamic and changing due to human actions

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Social Facts

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Aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals

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Social Solidarity

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  • mechanical solidarity: everyone feeling/doing the same thing ; small collective consciousness
  • organic solidarity: the social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole
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Division of Labor

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Specialization of work tasks by means of which different occupations are combined within a production system

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Social Constraint

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the conditioning influence in our behavior of the groups and societies of which we are members

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Anomie

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A situation which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior

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Ecological Fallacy

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Treating group data as if it is individual data

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Materialist conception of history

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The economy, and not values, culture, or ideas, drives social change

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Base

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All material aspects of society

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Superstructure

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Culture, ideology, norms, and social institutions (essentially every other aspect of society)

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Capitalism

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An economic system based on private wealth, which is invested and reinvested to produce profit

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Social Classes

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Groupings of individuals who played similar roles in the economic system of a society

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Class consciousness

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A shared identity based on one’s position in the means of production

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False consciousness

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Workers identifying themselves with the interests of capitalists

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Impartiality

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Based on achievements and family ties (in the context of the Mafia)

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Three-fold approach

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Wealth, power, and prestige

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Protestant Ethic

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A Calvinist approach, living frugally

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Sprit of Capitalism

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Investing in the surplus to make money

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Bureaucracy

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An organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules of procedure and staffed by full time, salaried officials

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Double Consciousness

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Look through your eyes and eyes of society which leads to a better self identify

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The Color Line

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Racial segregation after slavery

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Working consensus

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Everybody gives up some sort of ideal/expectation when they enter and interaction/deal

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Interaction

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Anything that occurs throughout one occasion when people are in one space

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Performance

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Activity of a given participant on a given occasion

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Symbols

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Signs/things we put meaning towards

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Interactionism

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How our everyday lives are completely structured by interactions with others (involving more than one persons act)

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Symbolic Interactionalism

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Study of exchange of information through symbols that takes place in social intersection

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Civil Inattention

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The process when people quickly acknowledge other people but never acknowledge too deeply to avoid intrusiveness

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Response Cries

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Seemingly involuntary exclamations individuals make when they are taken by surprise, make a mistake, or want to communicate excitement

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Unfocused Interaction

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Interaction occurring among people in a setting but not face-to-face

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Focused Interaction

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Interaction when in a direct communication or engaged in the same activity

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Time-space

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When and where events occur

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Regionalization

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The division of social life into different regional settings or zones

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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The process by which someone is defined by a particular way and then comes to fulfill the expectation of that definition

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Qualitative Interviews

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Used to grasp the full picture of an event by asking real people about there expectations

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The Feminist Critique

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The importance of acknowledging your relationship and mutual respect with interviewee

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Constructivist Approach

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Interviewers should acknowledge that their conclusions do not completely capture reality

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Social Reproduction

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The transfer of knowledge cultural perspective, and social position from generation to the next

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Theories

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Interrelated concepts used to explain/predict how society and its parts are related

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Conflict Theory

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Claims that society is in a state of perpetual conflict

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Power

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Ability of people/groups to achieve aims or further interests they hold

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Functionalism

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A theoretical perspective based on the idea that social events can be explained in terms of the functions they preform

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Social Exchange (Rational Choice)

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The theory that an individuals behavior is purposive (maximize rewards while minimizing cost)

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Macrosociology

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Study of large scale groups, organizations, and social systems

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Microsociology

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Study of human behavior and interaction (face to face)

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Surveys

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More structured research method where specific, carefully constructed questions are asked to specific, carefully selected individuals

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Ethnography

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A method frequently used to study people in their own settings in a deep, thorough fashion

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Experiments

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A research method by which variables can be analyzed in a controlled and systematic way, either in an artificial situation constructed by the researcher or in a naturally occurring setting

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Sampling

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Studying a proportion of individuals or cases from a larger population

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Population

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All individuals, objects, or groups

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Haphazard

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Selecting anyone who is convenient

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Quota

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Selecting anyone in a predetermined group

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Purposive

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Selecting anyone in a hard to find target population

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Snowball

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Selecting people connected to one another

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Simple

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Selecting people on a truly random procedure

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Systematic

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Selecting every kth person (quasi random)

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Stratified

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Selecting random people in predetermined groups

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Cluster

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Take multistage random samples in each of several levels

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Quantitative Research

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Analysis of numerical data

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Qualitative Research

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A scientific method that does not require statistical methods for collecting or reporting data

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Informed Consent

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When recruiting subjects to a study, investigators must tell potential subjects what their participation will involve and must ensure that subjects have given their voluntary consent to participate

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Debriefing

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After a study concludes, the experimenters may explain exactly what happened and why

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