Sociology Flashcards

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Antipositivism

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Social sciences are not subject to the same methods of understanding as the natural sciences

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Action theory

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Social science must consider motives when studying actions

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Cultural relativism

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Belief of franz boas that civilization is relative, not absolute, and that there is not a relationship between culture and race

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Diffusion

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The process of how innovations spread within an organization or social group

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Endogamy

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Practice of marrying a person of only a certain group or class

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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

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“Community and society” are two normal types of human association according to Ferdinand tonnies

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Gentrification

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High income people acquiring property in low income areas, as a result of which property values increase and Lower income residents are displaced

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Macrostructure

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Large scale organization of society

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Ponerology

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Study of social injustice

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Positivism

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The belief that in the social and natural sciences the only valid truth is scientific truth

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Role homogeneity

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Multiple community roles performed by one individual

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Tertius gaudens

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One person gaining from a disagreement between two others

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Xenocentrism

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Preference for products and ideas from another culture, this is the opposite of ethnocentrism

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Xenophobia

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A fear of people or things from a different culture

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Jacques barzun

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American historian who studied culture

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James Coleman

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Defined social capital

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Auguste Comte

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A founder of sociology and positivism

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W.E.B. Dubois

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Cofounder of NAACP

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Emile Durkheim

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French father of sociology

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Talcott parsons

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Developed action theory

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Georg simmel

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Founder of antipositivism

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Herbert spencer

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Coined the term “survival of the fittest” and applied it to humans in a sociology context

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Ferdinand tonnies

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Defined gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

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Thorstein Veblen

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Wrote “the theory of the leisure class”

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Max weber

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Promoted antipositivism