Sociology Chapter 1 Sociological Imagination Print test

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A quality of mind that allows people to see how larger social forces shape their life stories or biographies

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Sociological Imagination

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Any human-created ways of doing things influence, pressure, or forces people to behave

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Social Factors

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All the day-to-day activities from birth-death that makes up a person’s life

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Biography

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The study of human activity as it is affected by social forces emanating from groups, organizations, societies, and even the global community

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Sociology

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Facts Ideas,feelings, and ways of behaving “that possess the remarkable property of existing”

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Social Facts

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The states of affairs with regard to some ways of being expressed through rates, shapes the behavior of people who live in the society.

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Currents of Opinion

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Personal needs, problems, or difficulties that can be explained as individual shortcomings related to motivation, attitude, ability, character, or judgment.

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Troubles

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A matter that can be explained only by factors outside an individual’s control and immediate environment

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Issue

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Changes in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and mining that transformed virtually every aspect of society

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Industrial Revolution

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The addition of external sources of power, such as that derived from burning coil and oil to muscle-powered tools and modes of transportation

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Mechanization

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A situation which social activity transcends national borders in which one country’s problems are part of a larger global situation

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Global Interdependence

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The ever increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, info and culture across political borders.

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Globalization

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the idea of a local community or region adapting an idea, good, or service from another region outside of there.

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Glocalization

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knowledge gained from the 5 senses and observable evidence.

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Positivism

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relating unobservable aspects of reality to supernatural beings

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Theocratic

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big philosophical questions

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Metaphysical

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use of scientific explanations and experimental data to understand the world

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Positive

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Forces that hold societies together to help them endure over time

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Social Statics

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Forces that cause change in society

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Social Dynamics

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The US and European countries response shows an example of sociology in how social statics hold societies together and social dynamics that helped promote positive change for the economy. By things like spending programs, wage compensation, and work benefits the economy got better that acted as “social safety nets”

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Economic Crisis

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a French philosopher and is considered the father of Positivism

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Auguste Comte

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Creation of Marxism

Propenent of Communism

Conflict Theory:Workers vs Owners

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Karl Marx

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Capitalist societies were built on conflicts between the workers and the rulers.

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Conflict Theory

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Society relies on class conflict between the bourgeoisie (owners of production) and the proletariat (individuals who work for the bourgeoisie).

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Communist Mainfesto

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those who live in luxury among masses of poor people, Bankers and stockholders

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The Class Struggles of France(Finance Aristocracy)

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Focused on Labor Divisions and solidarity.

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Emile Durkheim

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The ties that bind people to one another in society.

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Solidarity

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A state in which the ties attaching the individuals to others in the society are weak.

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Eqoistic

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The act of severing relationships

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Suicide

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A state in which the ties attaching the individual to the group are such that he or she has no life beyond the group and strives to blend in with the group to have a sense of being

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Altruistic

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A state in which the ties attaching the individual to the group are disrupted due to dramatic changes in economic circumstances.

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Anomic

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A state in which the ties attaching the individual to the group involve discipline so oppressive it offers no chance of release.

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Fatalistic

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A goal is reached in the most efficient way possible regardless of its effects.

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Max Wever

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Result-oriented action

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Instrumental-Rational

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actions people take in response to others

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Social Action

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Pursued only because it was pursued in the past

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Traditional

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A goal is pursued in response to an emotion such as revenge, love, or loyal

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Affectional

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symbolic meanings, “there can be no compromises of cost-accounting, no rational weighing of one end against another

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Value-Rational

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W.E.B. Dubois Co-founded the Niagara Movement.

Taked about the color line.

Believed the Western government wanted Africa for its natural resources & cheap labor

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W.E.B. Dubois

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this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”

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Double Consciousness

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A barrier supported by customs and laws separating white and non whites especially in the division of labor

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Color Line

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Was a co-founder of one of the first settlement houses in the U.S.

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Jane Addams

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first-hand knowledge gained by living and working around those being studied

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Sympathetic Knowledge