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Intro to sociology Flashcards

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Sociology

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

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Society

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

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Macro structure

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Higher, class and lower class

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Micro structure

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Friends, family

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Social interaction

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Talking and coexisting. Often patterned but can change or evolve

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Culture

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

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Dominant culture

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

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Human interest

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Important to be attractive weath and luxury

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Counterculture

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

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Subculture

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

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High culture

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The culture of society’s elite

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Popular (or low) culture

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Of the majority

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Individual choices

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Agency

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Individual agency vs societies constraints

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Sociological imagination

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Sociological imagination

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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

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Social inequality

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

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Social institutions

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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

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Social change

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

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Three core Foci of Sociology

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Social inequality, social institutions and social change

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Milieu

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A persons social environment

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Troubles/struggle

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Personal

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Issues

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Societal

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Breaking experiment

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Harold Garfunkel

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High institute

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Not accessible for everyone

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Secularization

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Process of religion losing authority in individuals and social life

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Moderization=

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Less religion

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Opiate- dulling of the senses

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

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Three core aims of Sociology

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

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

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Study of suicide

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Study of suicide - egoistic suicide

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Low integration

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Study of suicide- Altruistic Suicide

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

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Study of suicide - fatalistic

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Events are predetermined by high regulation

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Study of suicide -anomic

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Anomic socially disoriented- loners

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Integration

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

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Homophily

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

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Research methods

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Research
Variables -independent and dependent

Quarantine research
Survey research -questionnaires Experiments

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Research pt 2

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Qualitative research
Interviewing and participants
Content analysis and focus groups

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Social construction

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

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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Rousseau vs Durkheim

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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)

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Axiom

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

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Authorities

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

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Law and morality

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Conditions of collective life- public opinion

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Solidarity

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To devotion and sacrifice

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Socialization

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Agreement that humans are shaped by society

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Structural functionalism

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Society work together to create cohesion- to survive and reproduce

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Children

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

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Conflict theory

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

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