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Sociology Midterm Flashcards

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What is the Beloit Mindset List?

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Provides important insight into the lives of incoming university students

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What is Generation X?

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Pressured by their parents, difficult to climb ranks in the workforce, first generation to be influenced by technology

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What is Generation Y?

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Close knit families, look to adults for guidance, can’t achieve anything independently, first generation to grow up completely with technology

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What is Generation Z?

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Grew up fully immersed in technology, short attention spans, different outlook on the world

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What is a grand narrative?

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Applying relevance and accuracy to what young people are learning in a way that they will be interested and understand

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What is the natural attitude?

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People naturally see themselves and situations from their personal perspective

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What is the sociological imagination?

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Look at the relationship between history and biography in society

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What is the personal milieu?

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Personal problems that reach and individual or group around them that can be fixed on their own

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What are the public issues of the social structure?

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These are the problems that rise with intersecting milieus of people

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What is the Information Age?

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Castells says that it is the rapid development and widespread use of micro technology

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What does McLuhan say about medium?

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The message of the medium that introduces a change in pace to human affairs

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What is hot media?

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It is passive consumption that does not require the receiver to fill in many details

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What is cold media?

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Requires the receiver to be actively participate, presenting information more abstractly

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What does app centred mean?

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Individuals turn to apps to answer questions first

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What is e-culture?

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Information is being consumed at a rapid rate and there is unlimited accessibility

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What are old school expectations?

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Engage more with print culture, less with technology, more present

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What are new school students?

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Recognize the value in the digital world and it’s importance

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How do they intersect?

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There is value in new students appreciating old school methods (critically reading)

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What is Newman’s idea for university?

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University should strive to culturally, completely educate an individual to prepare them for the world

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What was Humbolt’s idea for university?

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University is for specialized knowledge and critical inquiry and scientific study

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What is the multiversity?

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A series of disconnected communities not united to pursue a similar educational goal but rather individual specialized ones

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What is the problem with liberal education?

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Focused more on practicality, technical, career based learning rather than person growth and discovery

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What is neoliberalism?

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social wellbeing is best attained through encouragement of individual personal property, free trade, etc

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What is craftwork?

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Specializing in a certain area, dedicating years of expertise to a certain area

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What is intellectual craftsmanship?

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It is the integration of life and work so that an individual can draw on experience to realize potential

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What is the first level of engagement?

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A state of awareness that the mind transitions between emotion and observation.

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What is the second level of engagement?

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Level of action and social participation

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What is the third level of engagement?

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Level of imagination, produces unrestricted ideas and innovation

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What is the meaningful construction of the social world?

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Individuals understand the world through socially constructed meaning, understand it interperatively

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What is the duree?

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A stream of lived experience

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what is a disciplinary matrix?

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A system of assumption that scientists employ to scientific activity

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What is a discourse?

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Process of reasoning rather than the results of an immediate experience

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What was the Enlightenment influence on sociology?

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Time of thought, innovation and testing the previous social structure

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What is Karl Marx’s idea of social change?

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It lies in the real experiences of the people, the working class hold the power

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What is technological determinism?

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The idea that machinery is key to social change

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What is economic determinism?

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It is not machinery or technology but the economy that drives history and social change

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What is the class struggle?

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The proletariat will eventually become conscious of inequality and spark revolution

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What is Decartes first rule of discourse?

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true knowledge to rigorous contemplation of the world

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What is the second?

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Unless knowledge was rigorously researched it cannot be stated as true

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What is the third?

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Scientific method should apply to all areas of human knowledge

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What is Decartes final rule of discourse?

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All claims must be open to scrutiny and criticism

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What is the social spirit? (Montesquieu)

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The spirit of society does not lie in the individual but in the collective, governing body as a whole

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What is positivism?

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System of knowledge based purely on the methodology of the natural sciences

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What is important about order and progress?

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Principle difficulty and strength of every political system

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What did Weber believe about sociology?

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Involves the development of a comprehensive understanding of social action

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