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Sociology Midterm-deck 1 Flashcards

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Sociological Imagination

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ability to connect personal biography with historical and structural context
Make the familiar strange
awareness of relationship between individual and society

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3 categories of norms

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Folkways, mores, laws

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Folkways

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Customs, traditions, habits
Mildly enforced
Manners, dress, eating behaviors
If violate: just seen as odd

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Mores

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Very strong norms, strictly enforced
bigamy, incest, cannibalism
if violate: strong negative judgement, may lead to arrest

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Laws

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designed, maintained and enforced by political authority
speeding tickets, taxes, murder
Legal consequences, social reactions will vary

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  1. Group Loyalty
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Violation: apostasy

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  1. Privacy
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Violation: intrusion

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  1. Prudence
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Careful, good judgement to avoid consequences

violation: Indiscretion (lack of good judgement)

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  1. Conventionality
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Violation: bizarreness

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  1. Responsibility
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Violation: Irresponsibility

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6.Participation

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Violation: Alienation

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7.Moderation

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Violation: Hedonism (self-indulgence) and asceticism (avoidance of all indulgence)

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8.Honesty

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Violation: Deceitfulness

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  1. Peacefulness
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Violation: Disruption

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  1. Courtesy
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Violation: uncouthness/rudeness

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3 questions good sociologist asks

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  1. What is the structure of this particular society?
  2. Where does this society stand in human history?
  3. What varieties of men and women prevail in this society and in this period?
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Theory

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Set of statements to explain phenomenon
Both explanatory and predictive
Constructing good theory - scientists main goal

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Functionalism (Organicism)

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Macrosociology
World is stable, ongoing entity- endures rather than changes; societal stability
Society as a system – a sum of interrelated parts which work together (in function) to maintain & restore equilibrium & stability
Functions are neutral (not good or bad)
Value consensus rather than conflict
Society as a living organism with parts contributing to survival

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Parson’s functionalism

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If a social institution or other aspect of social life is not functional, it will not be passed on across generations
Therefore, if a social institution or other aspect of social life has been passed on, it is somehow functional

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Manifest functions

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open, stated, and conscious functions of

institutions that involve the intended, recognized consequences of an aspect of society

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Latent functions

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unconscious or unintended functions that
may reflect hidden purposes of an institution
ex. Mrs degree from college

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Critiques of functionalism

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Society is social, not biological

doesn’t account for change

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Conflict perspective

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Social change occurs through conflict Inequalities are unfair, expense less powerful
groups
Sees social behavior in terms of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources
Is impressed with social change (not endurance) over time

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Symbolic Interactionism

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-uses everyday (microsociological) forms of interaction to help generate ideas that will ultimately help us to explain society as a whole
-focuses on local contexts, not large societies
-individuals and groups act purposefully to secure their ends and create
meaning
-motivated by learned values, not materials
-people seek to create meaning for themselves

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Symbols

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  • anything that displays meaning

- can be object, language, non-verbal behavior

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Social Construction of Reality (Thomas)

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An entity in a social system that is constructed by participants in a particular culture or society because people:
agree to behave as if it exists or concur on
following certain conventional rules around it
-people interacting in a social system create a concept/representation of each other’s actions, and these concepts become habituated into roles played by members of society

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Cycle of Meaning (Blumer)

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signs and signals have different meaning for different societies, based on shared interactions between people
the meaning of something is a social product, not inherent in things

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Dramaturgical theory of social

interaction (Goffman)

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Social life as a theatrical performance
we are all actors on a stage
front stage and back stage versions of ourselves

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Operationalization

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Define what you are trying to measure
Define how you are going to measure the variables of interest
Creating measurement of the abstract

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Independent Variable

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a measured factor that the researcher believes has a causal impact on the dependent variable

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Dependent Variable

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Outcome researcher is trying to explain

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Validity

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the degree to which a measure or scale

truly reflects the phenomena under study

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Reliability

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the extent to which a measure

produces consistent results

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Proving causation

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  1. Determine correlation
  2. Determine direction
  3. Eliminate confounds/ alternative explanations
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Steps to research

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Select a topic
• Define a problem
• Review the literature
• Formulate a hypothesis 
• Choose a research method
• Collect data
• Analyze results
• Share results
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High culture

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held in highest esteem by a culture

pursuit of intellectual refinement

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Material culture

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everything that is part of our constructed environment

books, fashion, monuments

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Nonmaterial culture

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non-physical; values, beliefs, behaviors, norms
included language through the meanings we assign to words
concepts such as class and inequality

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Cultural relativism

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to recognize differences across cultures without passing judgement on, or assigning value to those differences

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Subculture

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a group united by sets
of concepts, values, traits, and/or behavioral patterns that distinguish it from others within the same culture or society
ex. youth culture vs. mainstream adult culture
dating vs. hookup culture

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Sociological imagination- view on dating/hook-up culture

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your individual experience of courtship depends on the economic and historical place you are in
• Had you been born at a different time, you would experience something completely different
changes occurred due to invention of birth control, acceptance of abortion

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