Midterm Flashcards
Sociology
The systematic study of human behaviour in social context.
Social structures
Stable patterns of social relations.
Sociological Imagination
The quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social structures.
Mesostructures
Patterns of social relations in organizations that involve people who are not often intimately acquainted and who often do not interact face to face.
Macrostructures:
Overreaching patterns of social relations that lie outside and above one’s circle of intimates and acquaintances.
Patriarchy
A system of power relations and customary practices that help to ensure male dominance in economic, political, and other spheres of life.
Microstructures
Patterns of social relations formed during face-to-face interaction.
Global structures
Patterns of social relations that lie outside and above the national level.
Scientific Revolution
Beginning in Europe about 1550, a movement to promote the view that sound conclusions about the workings of the world must be based on solid evidence, not just speculation.
Theory
A conjecture about the way observed facts are related.
Democratic Revolution
The process, beginning abut 1750, in which the citizens of the United States, France, and other countries, broadened their participation in government, thereby suggesting that people can organize society and solve social problems.
Who is Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)?
She is considered to be the first modern sociologist; who argued that human behaviour is influenced by “social facts” or the social relations in which people are embedded.
Industrial revolution
Beginning in Britain in the 1780’s, a process of rapid economic transformation that involved the large-scale application of science and technology to industrial processes, the creation of factories, and the formation of a working class.
Social solidarity
A property of social groups that increases with the degree to which a group’s members share beliefs and values, and the frequency and intensity with which they interact.
Rate
The number of times an event happens in a given period per 100 000 members of the population.