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QUIZ 1 Flashcards

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Who is the original author of the “The Promise,” (1959)?

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C. Wright Mills

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According to the Giddens, et al (2019) Chapter 1 reading, sociology helps us to understand and analyze scientifically social phenomena like

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Bullying and Suicide

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A 2015 study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students found that more than eight in ten LGBT students had been verbally harassed, nearly six in ten had been sexually harassed, and more than a quarter (27 percent) had been physically harassed in within the past year.

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True

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According to Mills (1959); the sociological imagination enables an individual to take into account how their own experiences must be gauged within the time period of which they are living.

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True

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The basic premise of the sociological imagination is that there is a connection between:

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Biography, history, personal troubles and public issues

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Sociology is defined as:

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The scientific study of human, social life, groups, and societies

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According to Mills (1959), there is a difference between Troubles and Issues.

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True

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According to Mills (1959), what example does he provide for how divorce becomes an indication of the structural problem?

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if divorce rates are 250 out of every 1,000 attempts during the first four years

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According to Chapter 1 Giddens, et. al., (2019), the concept of romantic love and marrying for love, is relevant to which era?

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modern times

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According to Chapter 1 Giddens at. al., (2019), the sociological imagination requires us above all, to

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¨think ourselves away¨ from our daily routines and see our lives interconnected to the wider social structure

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11
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john Locke

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Natural Rights, fundamnetal rights possessed by all humans

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What is natural law? Positivism? Sociological
jurisprudence

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Natural Law- A system of rules and principles of human conduct that were independent of enacted law or the systems particular to one people.
Positivism- Law comes from those in power
sociological jurisprudence- Laws shift from those who come into power

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The purpose of government according to John Locke

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Force the social contract

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14
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What is the difference between libertarians and
egalitarians

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Libertarians want the greatest amount of freedom whereas egalitarians want the greatest amount of equality.

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15
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Is there a difference between retribution and
revenge

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There is a difference between retribution and revenge
Retribution believes that those guilty of crimes should be punished whereas revenge is seeking vengeance or avenging a wrong.

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What is the idea of due process

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Observing a regulated procedure fair in all respects will lead to a just solution

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What is the focus of social justice?

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The focus of social justice is the redistribution of resources to ensure fairness that meets the basic needs for people. Diminish disparities

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What is the “eve problem”?

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The eve problem is when men or society put woman in the position as the seductress. Women are responsible and exploit the sexual weakness of males.

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What is child poverty?

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20% of the United States children are in poverty, a rate two to three times higher than most of the other western industrialized nations.

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20
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Title of Rachel Carsons book 1962

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Silent Spring 1962

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21
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Who is the father of Common Law

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Henry the Second

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22
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Peoples peace

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strong local force in various nations

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Keepers of The peace

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Knights commissed to keep the peace in their local areas

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24
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Writ of Mandamus

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Requires Public servants to do their jobs

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25
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Substantive Law

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Definitions of crime have gradually become the function of the legislatures

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Factual Guilt Vs.Legal Guilt

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An individual may be factual guilty of a crime, evidence gathered, witness assembled, cogent arguments made, However, if the justice system has acted inappropriately “legal guilt” might not be established.

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Jury Nullification

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When a jury despite overwhelming evidence refuses to convict.

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Burecratic Justice

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Going about justice in a systematic way
Procedure, will guarantee Justice

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Transcedent justice

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Going about justice in a way that superseeds the law, caring not for process but instead a “higher Law’ the righting of a wrong no matter how it is done.

30
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Checks and Balances

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Various levels of government that are the cornerstone of American government. Judicial, Legislative, and executive relative indepdence that is contigenet on the other two.

31
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Fruit of the Poisoned tree

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evidence obtained in wrongful ways taints the evidence, may be excluded at trial.

32
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No Knock Privilege

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Breana Taylor, the orginal warrant might neglect the need to knock therefore officers enter without the persons permission, or making an announcement.

33
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Habeas Corpus

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Requires people to be brought before a judge to determine the lawfulness of their detention

34
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Preventative Detention

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some people are dangerous, so they are denied bail

35
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Civil Law

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A branch of law that deals with conflicts between individuals based on commodification.

36
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Canon Law

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Church law

37
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Stare Decisis

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Let the decision stand

38
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American Justice System

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values and contradictions

39
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Collateral Damage

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Civilians killed and cities destroyed

40
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Just war

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self defense the main reason for war

other reasons for war
alliance with other state sthat are threatened
extending terriorties

41
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Private Military Firms

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Private Military Firms, corporate warriors, Blackwater and Halliburton

42
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Children Combatants

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Children having to be used as fighters..kidnapping children making them fighters

43
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Draft

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forces people in military service

44
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Fragging

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Used to describe the killing of a military officer

45
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noncombatants

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ordinary citizens that have been brutalized and exploited throughout the history of war.

46
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Rape in War

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Invasion of Normandy, Females being raped by their comrades, active duty men and woman subject to violence, civilians that are abused because of military occupation

47
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% of woman population

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48-49% 51%

48
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Karl Marx

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class conflict, critquing capitalism

49
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Assimilation

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Immigrants should slough of their countries origin and traditions in order to slowly come into American culture, language

50
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Internal

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within a state or country

51
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external

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to a different state or country

52
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Emmigration

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leaving one country for another

53
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Immigration

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moving into a new country

54
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Return Migration

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moving back from where you came from

55
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Libertarians

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Always against governmental interference in human endeavors, argue that if an immigrant does not hurt others they have the human right to move and settle anywhere without restrictions

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Utilitarians

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always seeking the greatest happiness for the greatest number, see an ecoonomic benefit for both the immigrant and host country

57
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Humanitarians,

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Open borders would save life
2000-2014 6000 people died trying to cross borders

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Egalitarians

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see the diminishment of inequality if people can move to laces that allow them to grow

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Culturaist

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would argue biological and culture mixing enriches all societies

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Epistemology

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concerned with the nature of knowledge

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Ethics

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Morals

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Logic

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The principle of correct reasoning

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Reificatory

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The duty to make up for past wrongs..restore injustice

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Political Philosophy

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Government relationship with individuals

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