Soc Unit 1 Study Guide

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Social Stability

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To maintain social justice and promote social progress by identifying and addressing social issues

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Functionalist Perspective

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Seeing society as one living organism which each person contributes to society. It emphasizes how society is structured and sustained

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Interactionist Perspective

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To generalize interactions in society as a whole to understand society as a whole

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Conflictivist Perspective

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Believing that society is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups

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George Herbert Mead

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Founder of interactionist perspective. He focused on on observing minute forms of communication like similes,frowns, nodding etc.

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Jane Adams

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She contributed to how workers were mistreated in other countries and the organization of human society

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Max Webber

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He used cross-cultural & historic materials to determine how extensively social groups affect people’s orientation to life

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Herbert Blumer

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He outlined the assumptions about interactionism:we learn the meaning of a symbol by other people’s reaction, behavior on them, and by imagining how others will respond to our behaivor

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Herbert Spencer

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Founder of sociology.He believed society operates under fixed laws and considered societies evolve from lower to higher forms

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Emile Durkheim

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Primary goal was to get sociology recognized as a separate academic discipline.He studied suicide rates that raise in weak( less interactive) communities as well as identifying the key role of social integration in social life

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C.Wright Mills

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Developed sociological imagination

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W.E.B Dubois

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Focused on how race and sociology affects everyone and helped developed a pan-African movement in society

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August Comte

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Concluded that the right way to answer questions in society was through the scientific method

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Robert Merton

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Key functionalist that believed in two kinds of functions,latent and manifest.

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Sociological Perspective

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Perspective of regarding situations.The way you see things

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Harriet Martineau

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She’s known for her translation of Cornet’s book as well as coming up with the feminist theory.

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Dysfunction

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An element/process of society that leads to a decrease in stability/disrupt a social system

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Function

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How society works

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Latent Function

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Unintended and unconscious(ex.school rules).May reflect hidden purposes of an institution.

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Manifest Function

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Open stated and conscious (ex.learning math).

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Symbols

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They’re part of communication. Understanding these symbols leads to revelations about society

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Dramaturgy

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This is interaction as a theoretical performance or presentation- like how actors on stage present themselves through how they dress, gestures and tone of voice

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Karl Marx

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He was know for his view of the struggle between social classes being inevitable

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Conformity

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Conformity (part of what happens) occurs because members a group has been taught to value the groups ways

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Social Structure

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Patterned interactions of people in social relationships

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Social Wisdom

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ideas people assume are true

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Mechanical Solidarity

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a sense of togetherness where people do the same thing

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Organic Solidarity

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unity based on the division of labor

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Verstehen

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empathic understanding of human behaivor

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Rationalization

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justification of actions

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Sociological Imagination

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to understand someone by viewing the situation from their perspective (putting yourself in someone else’s shoes)

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Positivism

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Theory that laws are understood as social rules

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Suppose you have a neighbor that breaks into you house and steels money, using sociological imagination, what are the reasons that he could be doing that?

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What did C. Wright Mills mean by the term sociological imagination? Describe a time when you have used sociological imagination in your life?

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What is the purpose of sociology?

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Why are patterns so significant to the study of sociology?

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How did the tattoo article demonstrate the significance of patterns?

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According to Auguste Comte, what’s the difference between social statics and social dynamics?Include examples.

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How is manifest function different from latent function?Include examples.

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Question 40

Explain the impact of Hernando Washington’s life and how it led to his decision making.(Describe at least three examples)

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Explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution on society and explain using three reasons how it led to the increase of crime.

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Question 42

According tot he discussion at the beginning of the semester, why does government encourage marriage?(use the sociological perspective).

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Question 43

Explain “presentation management”.Provide an example of a time you have used it.

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