Practicing the Sociological Imagination Flashcards
Practicing the Sociological Imagination
Agency
having the opportunity to make decisions for our life, ability to choose which direction to take
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“the general in the particular”
individual experiences reflect broader social patterns
Ex. eating disorders - blaming them, when it could be social media
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Micro
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Macro
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Global
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Nacirema
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Reification
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Social structures
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Society
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Sociological Imagination
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Sociology
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“the strange in the familiar”
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Structure
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Think of your own examples of research topics that would be considered micro, macro, qualitative, and quantitative
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How does Horace Miner’s research on the Nacirema illustrate Peter Berger’s concept of “the strange in the familiar”?