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Midterm 1 (Ch 1-6) Lecture Flashcards

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1
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Described American society being dominated by the elite who make the agenda

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C. Wright Mills

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Examples of isolation through childhood leading to little mental ability, social skills, and problems resocializing

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Danielle, Isabelle, and Genie

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What did the Solomon Asch experiment study?

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Group pressure. Seeing how people respond when rest of group responds to wrong line over and over

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The key interest of this view is on system survivability and stability

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Functionalist theory

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Focused on growth and bureaucracy

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Weber

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Came up with the idea of dramaturgy and impression management

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Goffman

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In field research, not identifying yourself as a sociological experimenter

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Covert

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Described the social organism, social stages, the social organism evolving in different ways, societies grow in different ways with some being more complex

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Herbert Spencer

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Problems with cultural diffusion

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May not be balanced in who gets to spread culture and how much they get to spread

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What do conflict theorists see unequal distribution of resources as?

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Will create hierarchies and be used to dominate and suppress

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3 key conflict theorists

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Marx, Martineau, and Weber

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Founded the first sociological institution. Did a study on suicide showing humans need to be integrated

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Durkheim

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Micro level theories

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Interactionist

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5 key parts to functionalist theory

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Integration, cohesion/conformity/stability, socialization, institutions, and functionality

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Abstract terms that capture arguably important and general features of social life (become variables when measurable) like status, inequality, etc

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Concepts

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Focused on power

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Weber

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Focused on integration and division of labor

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Durkheim

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View of culture as diverse/hierarchal tendencies

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Conflict theory

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4 key parts of conflict theory

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Status hierarchies and inequality, institutional non-neutrality, inequality centered view of culture, contention/resistance

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American functionalists

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Parsons, Merton, Davis, and Moore

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Described social inequality, power and domination, status, and bureaucracy

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Max Weber

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Meades 4 stages of early development and play

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  1. preparatory or pre play
  2. play stage
  3. game stage
  4. socialized individual with generalized other
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23
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The diffusion of culture around the world to make one

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Global culture

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Focused on conflict and alienation

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Marx

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Described the inequality of southern culture, help create the NAACP

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Studies that operate from a point to seek a deep understanding of social worlds through the views of participants (verstehen) rather than hypothesis testing

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Interpretive framework

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What did the Philip Zombardo experiment study?

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Conformity to roles, structure, and authority. People took on their roles and acted on them so strongly the experiment had to be stopped

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Attempt to hold work to a high, critical standard by anonymous peers in the field

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Peer review

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29
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All orgs have this

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Identifiable membership

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Awareness of our own place in the social whole, outsider view of ones own social world

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Sociological imagination

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Described class inequality, poverty, and gender

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Harriet Martineau

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32
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Networks can do one of these two things

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Constrain or enable

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Described the social system, social integration, keys to keeping social organism alive and healthy

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Emile Durkheim

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34
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Three functionalist sociologists

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Comte, Spencer, and Durkheim

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35
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View that through socialization and development, we learn roles, norms, and expectations associated with a particular status and cultural context

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Symbolic interactionism

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36
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Macro level theories

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Functionalist and conflict theory

37
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Argument to dramaturgy and impression management

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We can only be so creative before being seen as an outsider

38
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Heredity and twin studies

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Separation at birth leads to exhibiting some same behaviors but different learned behaviors

39
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View that society is like an organism with different organs that drives toward equilibrium and could die if not at equilibrium

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Functionalist theory

40
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What do societies need to function smoothly?

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Cohesion

41
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3 potential problems with bureaucracy

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  1. oligarchy/homogenization (those on top can be selfish with power and big bureaucracies can destroy small ones)
  2. trained incapacity (people out of job if their specialization is gone)
  3. iron cage (individuals trapped and no exceptions made for individuals)
42
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When a person is brought to a new social context and taught how to be a part of that social context

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Systematic resocialization

43
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In field research, identifying yourself as a sociological experimenter

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Overt

44
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View of culture as integrative functions

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Functionalist theory

45
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Focused on exploitation and alienation

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Marx

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Localized, interactions between people view

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Micro level

47
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Focused on socialization

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Durkheim

48
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Material specific things in a culture

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Objects/items

49
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Deep understanding of the social worlds from the point of view of participants

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Verstehen

50
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Stage with the starting to play roles to perfect role performance, acting roles out, obsessed with playing a particular role, can only play one role at a time

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Play stage

51
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What do more status markers indicate

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More probability for predictions

52
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Five major changes of life course transitions seen in symbolic interactionism

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  1. childhood
  2. teenager
  3. young adulthood
  4. midlife/middle ages
  5. later life/older ages
53
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View that society is characterized by stratification hierarchies and ongoing group struggles over societal resources

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Conflict theory

54
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Three historical areas we live in and are embedded in

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Preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial

55
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Described the fact that the poor were excluded from institutions

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Jane Addams

56
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How do different historical eras change our embedded ness?

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Different options, expectations, socialization, etc.

57
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Noticed culture is the most important part of society, more than institutions

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Durkheim

58
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Thought there were laws that governed social life

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Comte

59
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Challenges to functionalist theory

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Is social stability inherently good? Social scientific observations of pronounced inequality, genocide, social upheaval, etc

60
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Described race as a social construct

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Du Bois

61
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Stage with more complex cognition, playing several roles at once, goal is to from a generalized other

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Game stage

62
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4 parts to McDonaldization of society

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  1. efficiency (time)
  2. Calculability (do something with a certain amount)
  3. uniformity = predictability (expect a certain thing)
  4. control (often through automation, remove chaos)
63
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Methods that use the scientific method/casual relations

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Experiments, surveys, large scale statistical analyses, comparative/historical analyses

64
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A type of org design intended to promote social efficiency

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Bureaucracy

65
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Focused on organizations more than others

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Weber

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Stage with playing roles/following rules without thinking, ensures individuals act similar

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Socialized individual with generalized other

67
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Described class conflict, group struggle, social change

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Karl Marx

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Big picture, top down view

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Macro level

69
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Isolated monkeys stayed isolated bc they don’t know how to act and monkeys stayed with the fluffy monkey over the wire with food

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Harlows monkeys

70
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Described positivism, social system, general rules governing social world that could be studied using scientific method

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Auguste Comte

71
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Having enough knowledge that we known the roles/rules without having to think about it

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Generalized other

72
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Ideally, bureaucracies become this

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Meritocratic - based on pure intellect/ pure motivation

73
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People who come across as from the upper part of the society are seen as smarter. Culture conflict theorist view

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Low brow vs high brown displays/judgements

74
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Important figures in developing socialization

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Meade and Goffman

75
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The extent to which a relation holds true across individuals, groups, time, and place

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Generalizability

76
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Stage requiring no complex cognition and is all about imitation

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Preparatory/pre play stage

77
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4 parts of bureaucracy Weber noticed

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  1. division of labor (specialization)
  2. hierarchy of offices
  3. rules and regulations
  4. impersonality
78
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Methods that use the interpretive framework

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Ethnography, participant observation, open ended interviewing

79
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Who developed verstehen?

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Max Weber

80
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Came up with the McDonaldization of society

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George Ritzer

81
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Material things imbued with cultural meaning

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Symbols

82
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Said embedded ness in networks are important for opportunities and constraints

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Zimmel

83
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Described Jim Crow Laws in the south not allowing people into institutions

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Ida Wells-Barnett

84
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What did the Stanley Milgram experiment study?

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Conformity/obedience to authority. People would deliver deadly shock when told to by authority figure. People weren’t all that different from Nazi Germany

85
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Conflict theorists say the higher ups define culture and create hierarchies in their areas

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Racial/ethnic and gender hierarchies

86
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Groups that associate and formalize for some purpose, and that persist over time due to formalization

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Orgs

87
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What can an interpretive framework lead to?

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Forming a hypothesis to test on a macro level

88
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Younger people being on phones at dinner table and older people talking about how it used to be. Conflict theorists culture conflict

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Intergenerational shifts and conflict

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