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Lecture 1: Basics of Sociology Flashcards

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What is sociological imagination?

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Ability to see interconnections between individual experiences and larger societal patterns, trends, or forces

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What is sociology?

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The study of development, structure, and functioning of human society

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Functionalism

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All aspects of society serve a purpose for society to live. Goal is to maintain societies survival

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What was Durkheim’s most famous sociological investigation?

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Suicide and social solidarity. More people less suicidal tendencies

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What are the different kinds of social instability?

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Dysfunctional, manifest, latent

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Who created suicide and correlation of social solidarity?

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Emile Durkhiem

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Social solidarity definition

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Degree which group members share beliefs, values, intensity and frequency of social interaction

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Conflict theory

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Collection of varied groups struggling to dominate society and institutions

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Cultural-turn in conflict theory

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How Language, Music, Literature, Fashion, Movies, Ads, and Other Contents of media express domination by the powerful (resistance by the not)

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Poststructuralism

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social relations and cultures form structures, or stable determinates of the way people think and act

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Who were the founders of cultural-turning and poststructuralism?

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Gramsci and Foucault

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what are the 2 fundamentals conflict theory is on?

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Power: Wealthy, resourceful, and landful
Powerless: wish to have what the power has

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Who created conflict theory and what was the goal?

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Karl Marx and the means to control production

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Symbolic interactionism

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The focus on social interactionism; you share your own meanings, circumstances and social reality

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What are the 3 points that make up symbolic interactionism?

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  1. Distribution of power
  2. Protestant ethic
  3. Capitalism was vigorous due to protestant ethic
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Who was the founder of symbolic interactionism?

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Max Weber

17
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Feminist theory

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Gender is a central part of identity, and gender inequality is the result of patriarchal structures

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Who discovered feminist theory?

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Harriet Martineau, Margit Eichler, and Dorothy Smith

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Theory

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An inbetween about the relationship between observed facts

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Research

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Process of carefully observed reality to “test” or assess a theory

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Values

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ideas of what is right/wrong or good/bad

22
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How many steps in the research cycle?

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6

23
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What are the steps of the research cycle:

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  1. Hypothesis
  2. Reviewing existing literature
  3. Select method
  4. collect data
  5. analyze data
  6. results
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What are ethics in sociology?

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  1. Right to privacy
  2. Right to safety
  3. Right to confidentiality
  4. Right to informed consent
  5. Transparency
  6. academic integrity
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Experimental design

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Carefully controlled artificial situations that allow researchers isolated causes and results

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Survey

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A widely used sociological method that asks people about their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour

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Field study

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Systemically observing people in a natural setting

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Detached observations

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Classifying and counting behaviour of interest according to predetermined scheme

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Participant observations

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Observing people face-to-face and observing them in their life for a long time

30
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Pros of analyzing existing documents and official stats

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  1. save time and money
  2. data collected by using rigorous and uniform methods
  3. doesn’t require living things
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cons of analyzing existing documents and official stats

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  1. not created with researchers needs
  2. work within limitations of data
32
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society

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group of people who interact in a definable territory and share same culture

33
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social institution

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major social groups/structures which organize primary social practices/riles/relationship with a culture
1. gov
2. healthcare
3. education system

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