Sociology

Question 1

✓ Sociologist from University of Chicago
✓ Symbolic Interactions Perspective

Answer 1

GEORGE HERBERT MEAD

Question 2

Two parts of Self

Answer 2

Self-awareness and Self-image

Question 3

Our bodies age biologically, but the self is something that emerges thorough_______

Answer 3

Social interaction

Question 4

• developed as we age, as we grow
  -develops through interacting with others, through reflecting on that interaction, to
  thinking about how others are perceiving you, and that helps you generate an image
  of yourself
  -is mirrored in the reaction of the other

Answer 4

Self

Question 5

_______was developed in recognizing how others are perceiving us, we are
constantly trying to put ourselves in the shoes of another and think about how they are
seeing this event or situation or this action transpiring - this is _______

Answer 5

SELF IMAGE, IMITATION

Question 6

When you have internalized the widespread cultural norms, mores, and expectations
of behaviors – this is _______

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generalized others

Question 7

By taking the role of other, we can become

Answer 7

self-aware

Question 8

what is out there, acting, being spontaneous, doing things in the world

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“I”

Question 9

– an object, the aggregate combined image of yourself that has been given to
you from interacting with society

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”me”

Question 10

-Historic founder of French Socialism
-Origin of many ideas elaborated into Comtism
-His idea of the reconstruction of society were conditioned by the French Revolution and
by feudal and military system

Answer 10

HENRI de SAINT-SIMON (1760-1825)

Question 11

-He insisted on the necessity of new and positive reorganization of society
-Industrial chiefs should control society
-In medieval church, spiritual direction of society should fall to the men of science
-Industrial state directed by modern science, in which universal association should
suppress war

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HENRI de SAINT-SIMON (1760-1825)

Question 12

-Men who are successfully able to organize society for productive labor are entitled to
govern it
-The social aim was to produce things useful to life
-Call for “society of science” – influenced his disciple Auguste Comte

Answer 12

HENRI de SAINT-SIMON (1760-1825)

Question 13

Synthetic and Moral Philosophy

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HERBERT SPENCER (1820-1903)

Question 14

Encompasses realms of physical, psychological, biological,
sociological, and ethical

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Synthetic Philosophy -

Question 15

-Human happiness can be achieved only when individuals can satisfy their
needs and desires without infringing on the right of others to do the same
-In obtaining full satisfaction, one must derive pleasure from seeing pleasure in
others

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Social Statistics

Question 16

– basic law of ethics and morality
o Extension of laws in the natural world, and much of his scientific justification
for his moral position

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Principles of Ethics

Question 17

Once physical and biological realms are discovered, humans
should obey them and cease trying to construct, through political legislation,
social forms that violate these laws

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Moral dictum:

Question 18

The laws of social organization can no more be violated
than can those of the physical universe, and to seek to do so will create, in the
long run, more severe problems

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Scientific position:

Question 19

Humans should be as free from external regulation as possible – “___________”

Answer 19

implicity obey them

Question 20

___________ and ____________ converge and how they reflect
biological laws of unfettered competition and struggle among species

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Moral laws and laws of laissez-faire capitalism

Question 21

In the union of many men into one community –

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the law of individuation

Question 22

While decrying war as destructive, it allows more organized “races” to conquer the ”__________ and ______,” increasing thereby, the level and complexity of social organization

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less organized and inferior races

Question 23

• French sociologist, cited as the principal architect of modern social sciences
• Established academic discipline with Marx and Weber

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DAVID EMILE DURKHEIM (1858-1917)

Question 24

• How societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which
  a traditional social and religious tie are no longer assumed, and in which new social
  institutions have come into being
• Acceptance of sociology as a legitimate science

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DAVID EMILE DURKHEIM (1858-1917)

Question 25

• How concepts and categories of logical thought could arise out of social life
• Certain aspects of logical thought common to all humans did exist, but they were products of collective life and that they were not universal a priori since the content of categories differed from society to society

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Sociology of Knowledge

Question 26

T OR F: The symbols and images that come to represent the ideas, beliefs, and values
elaborated by a collectivity and are reducible to individual constituents

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false

Question 27

Created through intense social interaction and are products of collective activity

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Collective representations

Question 28

Controlled by society (as a whole) yet simultaneously by virtue of that individual’s
participation within the society

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Collective representations

Question 29

T or F: A language product of collective action, language contains within it a history
accumulated knowledge and experience that no individual would be capable of
creating on their own

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true

Question 30

a social product that structures and shapes our experience of reality

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Language

Question 31

Theory that attempts to explain socialization and its effect on the development of the self
It looks at the individual learning process, the formation of self, and influence of society in
socializing individual

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Social Learning Theory

Question 32

who coined social learning theory

Answer 32

ALBERT BANDURA (1925)

Question 33

• Formation of one’s identity is a learned response to social stimuli
• An individual’s identity is not the product of the unconscious, but instead is the result of
  modeling oneself in response to the expectations of others
• Behaviors and attitudes develop in response to reinforcement and encouragement from
  people around us

Answer 33

Social Learning Theory