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What is social structure?

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Social structure is the walls that delineate our expected Behavior

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What is a social institution?

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A social institution is
A standard pattern of expectations and behaviors.
An interwoven system of relationships.
A set of social norms organized around a particular social value.

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What are examples of social institutions?

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The criminal justice system
Political parties
The norm is to pursue a political agenda

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What is the sociological imagination?

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C Wright Mills in 1959 said that the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations of the two within society. That is its task and promise.

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What is micro level sociology

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I cook for my family

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What is macro level sociology

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Women mostly cook for their families

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What is individual agency

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Our ability to Act of Valor own accord within or against these social structures

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Qualitative data

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The scale for measurement is a set of unordered categories

Race, religious Affiliation

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Quantitative data

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Possible values differ in magnitude

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Deductive logic

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Starts with the theory, forms of hypothesis, makes empirical observation, and then analyzes the data to confirm, reject, or modify the original Theory

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Methods of data collection list

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Participant observation 
Interviews 
Survey research 
Historical methods 
Comparative research 
Experimental research 
Content analysis 
Quasi-experimental Design
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What is quasi-experimental design

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It depends on the principles of experimental design without using lab conditions

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Methods of sampling

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Probability sampling

Non probability sampling

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Probability sampling

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Simple random sample
Stratified sample
Cluster sample

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What is a cluster sample

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Pic clusters from the demographics you are trying to sample

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Non probability sampling

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Purpose sample
Convenience sample
Snowball sample

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Convenience sample

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Survey in Centennial

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Snowball sample

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Using your sample to get more simple people. Tell your friends

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Descriptive statistics

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Summarizing and exploring data

A parameter

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Inferential statistics

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Making predictions are generalizing about phenomena represented by the data
Predictions made using data are called statistical inferences

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Criteria for establishing causality

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Correlation
Time or order
Ruling out alternative explanations

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Positivism

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August Comte

How can we make moral sense of the social order in a time of declining religious Authority?
Equations for understanding Society
Conclusions about phenomena are based on the specific method of observation and positive verification

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Historical materialism

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Marx
What drives history? A shift from pre-modern economy to Industrial capitalism.
All economic systems are driven by conflict between classes - conflict theory

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Verstehen

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Weber

Sociologists need to study the meanings that people attach to what they do, subjectivity

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Anomie

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Durkheim

Normlessness
Purposelessness failure of a social structure to catch person

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Ethnography

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Culture and writing

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Double consciousness

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Dubois

The Philadelphia negro, he argues that class stratification in the African American Community was necessary for economic progress 
But he also came to view racism as a consequence of capitalism
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Functionalism

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Talcott Parsons

What function or role does a particular phenomenon play in society?
The problem is that it reinforces the status quo

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Manifest functions

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The functions we acknowledge

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Latent functions

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The Unofficial and unacknowledged

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Sign activity

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Goffman

The signals you give off that allow other people to determine aspects of Who You Are

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Socialization

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Describes how you learn to become a functioning member of society. It is the process by which individuals internalize values common beliefs, and Norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that Society.
It is physiology that prompt you into your name, but it is socialization that tells you where and when to do so

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Ascribed status

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The status given at Birth like your gender your race Etc

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Achieved status

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A status that is gained in life for example your Parenthood, your spouse Hood, your profession Etc

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Performativity

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The way one presents him or herself

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Sex

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Describe the anatomical, physiological, chromosomal, and hormonal differences between male and female bodies

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Gender

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Gender is a social institution that establishes patterns of expectations for individuals, or there’s the social processes of everyday life, is built into the major social organizations of society, such as the economy, ideology, the family, and politics, and it is also an entity in and of itself

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Essentialism

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Explain social phenomena as the more or less direct result of natural phenomena

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Biological determinism

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Reduces all social phenomena to biological facts
The biological World of Sex and bodies does not exist outside of the social world
And the social world of human beings is always made up of human bodies
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. DeBeauvior, the second sex

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Sex gender system

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Every society has one. Can chips and other social relations transform biological sex into gender. Women are objects of exchange among men

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Hegemonic masculinity

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Connell

The complete dominance of a group of people, a type of power so complete that it goes unnoticed
The ideal male is married, white, Urban, Northern, heterosexual, Providence, father, of college education, fully employed, of good complexion, wait, and hurt, and with a decent record in sports

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Classical sociological functions of the family

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The nuclear family fulfills the function of reproducing working. Children are reared to be future laborers who can meet the gendered labor demands of a capitalism system, which relies on women’s unpaid caregiving work. This does not explain the difference across cultures.

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Traditional markers of adult status

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Financial Independence 
Marriage 
Children
Place of your own 
Finished formal education

Legal age
Career stability
Emotional stability

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The pure relationship

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Giddens

Based on emotional intimacy, trust, and self-disclosure
Assumes equal rights and obligations
Relies on communication
Conforms to the values of a democratic politics and creates a democracy of the emotions in everyday life

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Deindustrialization

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An explosion in the diversity of family forms involving reproduction, socialization and education of children, economic production, and social and political regulation

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Deindustrialization, reproduction

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Blended families, adoption, foster care, reproductive technology.
Cohabitation, single parenting, same-sex couples

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Deindustrialization, socialization and education of children

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Early childhood education, after school programs, summer camp

Prolonged adolescence and emerging adulthood

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Social stratification

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The hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources

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Open vs. Closed system of stratification

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whether or not you can move around in the stratification system

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Social Mobility

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The movement of individuals or groups from one level to another

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Caste system

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A system of social inequality in which people’s status is permanently determined at Birth based on their parents describe characteristics.

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South Africa caste system

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Apartheid functioned as a caste system and was sustained by government and Military

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Jim Crow caste system

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A caste system sustained by the government, law, policing, and the braider economic system

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Class conflict

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Marx

The struggle between the capitalist class and the working class.

Marx predicted that this was a necessary part of capitalism and would lead to a worker Revolution, but there was no Revolution

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Marx 4 class model

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His definition of workers does not fit the occupations found in advanced capitalist societies. Many managers, supervisors, and top Executives don't own the means of production but do have a lot in common with the higher class 
His definition is also too broad. Because small business owners own their own means of production but don't have a lot in common with the higher class
The four classes are 
Ownership of the means of production 
Employing other people 
Supervising other people 
Being employed and supervised by someone else
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Weber three-pronged model of class

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He saw capitalism change, and understood that Marx ideas for overly simplistic. He focused on the access that people have two important societal resources, such as economic, social, and political power. Class depends on an interplay between wealth, Prestige, and Power. Power being the ability of people or groups to achieve their goals despite opposition

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Neoliberalism

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A new form of economy, social, and political liberalism
Listening of financial regulation
Government doesn’t consider it their duty to protect the well-being of its citizens
Socially, individuals are responsible for themselves. Retracting from social groups. Breakdown of traditional religious Authority

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Risk Society

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We need to take precaution against all risk

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Different conceptions of working-class adulthood, past and present

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This is like my entire paper I’m not going to restate it

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Boundary making

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We make boundaries between acceptable and not acceptable people. Study participants draw a line between people who take responsibility and people who don’t

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The therapeutic narrative

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Time together all experience of the past to understand selves in the present period using their understanding of what has happened to them to shape goals for the future. When telling story, have to reflect when they may not be able to do that before. Young adults make pain and identity and the life project. Personalized life events. They make it a defining feature of their lives. Silva is skeptical of the healing power of the therapeutic narrative. It’s dangerous. If people constantly blame all life issues on themselves when it is just the way life works

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