Intro to sociology

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

Created by Auguste Comte (1798-1857
Studies sociology in systematic way. Study of human and their interactions

Question 2

Society

Answer 2

Is a group of people whose members interact, reside in a definable institution and share a culture

Question 3

Macro structure

Answer 3

Higher, class and lower class

Question 4

Micro structure

Answer 4

Friends, family

Question 5

Social interaction

Answer 5

Talking and coexisting. Often patterned but can change or evolve

Question 7

Culture

Answer 7

Is a system of behaviour, belief, knowledge, practices, values and materials

Question 8

Dominant culture

Answer 8

Imposes believes, values and behaviours in society- political economic power

Question 9

Human interest

Answer 9

Important to be attractive weath and luxury

Question 10

Counterculture

Answer 10

Is a group that rejects certain elements of the dominant culture ex. Anti-consumerist materials don’t define your worth

Question 11

Subculture

Answer 11

They differ from dominant culture but not necessarily oppose it- minor differences

Question 12

High culture

Answer 12

The culture of society’s elite

Question 13

Popular (or low) culture

Answer 13

Of the majority

Question 14

Individual choices

Answer 14

Agency

Question 15

Individual agency vs societies constraints

Answer 15

Sociological imagination

Question 16

Sociological imagination

Answer 16

We can only understand our life after understanding the larger history and how society affects us. From perspective to imagination and most fruitful form of self consciousness
Theory by C. Wright Mills

Question 17

Social inequality

Answer 17

Core of sociology. It’s a gap between groups that can cause different advantages and disadvantages
Gender, race, social class

Question 18

Social institutions

Answer 18

Norms, values l and rules of conduct that structure human interaction- standard ways of living
Taught in schools or by family
Not just physical places but family, friends and sport teams

Question 19

Social change

Answer 19

Interaction changes our way of thinking
Can change due to technology, politics, climate issues, tools

Question 20

Three core Foci of Sociology

Answer 20

Social inequality, social institutions and social change

Question 21

Milieu

Answer 21

A persons social environment

Question 22

Troubles/struggle

Answer 22

Personal

Question 23

Issues

Answer 23

Societal

Question 24

Breaking experiment

Answer 24

Harold Garfunkel

Question 25

High institute

Answer 25

Not accessible for everyone

Question 26

Secularization

Answer 26

Process of religion losing authority in individuals and social life

Question 27

Moderization=

Answer 27

Less religion

Question 28

Opiate- dulling of the senses

Answer 28

Religion is dulling to society in order to decrease need for change

Question 29

Three core aims of Sociology

Answer 29

General themes of everyday life Assess critically what’s familiar and common sense How individuals shape society

Question 30

Emile Durkheim helped to separate sociology from psychology-society first before individual

Answer 30

Study of suicide

Question 31

Study of suicide - egoistic suicide

Answer 31

Low integration

Question 32

Study of suicide- Altruistic Suicide

Answer 32

Having/showing an unselfish concern for high integration and welfare of others

Question 33

Study of suicide - fatalistic

Answer 33

Events are predetermined by high regulation

Question 34

Study of suicide -anomic

Answer 34

Anomic socially disoriented- loners

Question 35

Integration

Answer 35

The feeling of connection to others being part of the group. Feeling of having purpose

Question 36

Homophily

Answer 36

Love of sameness- individuals will move towards others with same manners

Question 37

Research methods

Answer 37

Research Variables -independent and dependent Quarantine research Survey research -questionnaires Experiments

Question 38

Research pt 2

Answer 38

Qualitative research Interviewing and participants Content analysis and focus groups

Question 39

Social construction

Answer 39

Most of the ideas we use are social/cultural combination and evolve

Question 40

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 40

How humans would be like before society existed. Society corrupts humans and leads to our decay . Came before Durkheim

Question 41

Rousseau vs Durkheim

Answer 41

Durkheim disagreed with a few ideas from Rousseau. Humans can’t exist without society and can’t developed without it and society are good for humans make us feel connected (can’t be just happy savages)

Question 42

Axiom

Answer 42

A statement released or proposition which is regarded as being , accepted or self evidently true

Question 43

Authorities

Answer 43

Group in power. Could be tyrannical but we believe in it until trust is broken or something else replaces it

Question 44

Law and morality

Answer 44

Conditions of collective life- public opinion

Question 45

Solidarity

Answer 45

To devotion and sacrifice

Question 46

Socialization

Answer 46

Agreement that humans are shaped by society

Question 47

Structural functionalism

Answer 47

Society work together to create cohesion- to survive and reproduce

Question 48

Children

Answer 48

Get socialized same way are new comer to conform to the roles (behaviours, belief norms)

Question 49

Conflict theory

Answer 49

See society and socialization in different way- clashing of classes competing groups Marx capitalist vs workers