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Terminology Flashcards

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Sociological imagination

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Transfers personal troubles and it social issues by showing us how society affects the experiences we have

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Sociology

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Study of human societies

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Societies

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People who live together and share many patterns of behavior

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Social problem

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A condition that undermines the well-being and hurts people by causing them harm or draining your spirit

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Social constructionist approach

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Social problems arise as people define conditions as undesirable and need of change

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Claims making

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Efforts by people to convince others that an issue should be defined as a social problem

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Social movements

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An organized effort at claims making tries to shape the way people think on an issue to encourage change

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Theory

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A statement of facts

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Theoretical approach

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Basic image of society that guides theory and research

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Social institutions

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Major spheres of social life organized to meet basic human need

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Social pathology theory

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Treat social problems as a destruction of societies normal operation

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Social disorganization theory

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Society breaks down door to rapid change

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Social conflict approach

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Siri let’s see society as divided by inequality

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Feminism

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Vertical movement at 6:05 quality of women

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Survey

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Search Method by questionnaire or interview

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Field research

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Observing people while joining them in every day activities

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Experiment

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Investigating cause-and-effect relationships under controlled conditions think of a lab

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Secondary analysis

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Makes use of data already collected by others

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Social policy

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Formal strategies that if that’s how society operates

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Political spectrum

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Range of political attitudes from left to right

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Social issues

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Political debates involving moral judgments about how people should live

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Economic issues

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Political debates about how society should produce and distribute material resources

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Social stratification

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Society system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy reduce the social classes

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Social classes

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Categories of people who have similar access to resources and opportunities

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Income

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Salary for wages from a job earnings from investments

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Progressive taxation

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Policy that raises tax rates as income increases

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Poverty line

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Income level sit by the US government accounting of the

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Poverty gap

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Difference between the actual income of the typical poor and the official poverty line

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Persistent poverty counties

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Counties in the United States where the poverty rate has reached 20% and remain for 30 years

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Homelessness

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What up for people who like shelter and live on the

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Social welfare programs

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Organized effort by government and organizations to assassinated people

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Culture of poverty

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Cultural patterns that encourage properties way of life

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Merit- ocracey

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A system of social inequality related to a persons ability an effort

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Social disorganization

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Breakdown of social order caused by rapid change

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Blaming the victim

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Finding cause of the social problem in the behavior people who suffer from it

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Cultural capital

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Skills values attitudes and schooling and increase a persons chances of success

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Patriarchy

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Social pattern in which she males dominate females

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Intersection theory

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Interplay of race class and gender often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which natural resources and producing goods and services are privately owned

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Government

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Formal organization that directs the political bias of society

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Socialism

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An economic system in which natural resources and producing goods and services are collectively old

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State capitalism

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Involves government working closely with large companies privately owned

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Welfare capitalism

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Provides extensive welfare programs funded by high taxes

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Political economy

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Leslie paint economic and political life of a nation or world or region

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Democracy

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Political system in which powers exercise by the people as a whole

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Authoritarianism

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Political system that’s nice popular participation in government

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Monarchy

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Political system in which a single-family rules generation to generation

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Corporations

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This is his with legal existence separate from that of their members an island onto its own

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Monopoly

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Domination of an entire market by a single company

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Oligopoly

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Domination of a market by a few companies more than one

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Conglomerate

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Giant corporation composed of many smaller corporations PepsiCo old is quaker oats Starbucks

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Interlocking directorates

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Social networks made up of people who service directors of several corporations at a time of the number of a board of directors and serve on the board of another board of directors think gordy

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Special interest groups

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Political alliance of people interested in some economic or social issue

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Lobbying

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Representatives of special interest groups that influence government officials

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Political action committees PAC

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Organizations form by special interest groups to raise and spend money in support of political goals

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Gender gap

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Women in men have different opinions about certain issues and support different candidates

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Pluralist model

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Seize power widely distributed among various groups and organizations in society

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Military industrial complex

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Close association of federal government and military and defense industries

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Power elite model

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Sees power as concentrate among members of small elite

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Marxis political economy model

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She’s concentration of wealth and power and society as a result from capitalism

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Primary sector

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Produces raw materials farming fishing ranching

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Secondary sector

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Workers transformer materials into finished products furniture

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Service work

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Sales consulting law advertising

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Deindustrialization

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Decline of industrial production occurred in the US after 1950

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Globalization

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Expansion of economic activity around the world with no regard for national borders

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Primary labor market

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Jobs at provide workers with good pay an extensive benefits

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White collar professions

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Lawyer position

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Secondary labor market

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Jobs provide workers with low pay And Few benefits

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Alienation

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Powerlessness in the workplace resulting in experience of isolation in Misery

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Rationalization of society

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Historical change from tradition to rationality of the typical way people think about the world

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McDonaldization

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Defining work in terms of the principles of efficiency predictability uniformity in automation Pushing a button

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McJobs

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Doing a series of simple tasks pushing buttons on a computer or machine repeated over and over

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Gig economy

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Arrangements by which companies in other organizations contract with independent workers were specific work over a short period of time Uber

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Labor unions

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Worker organizations that seek to improve rages and working condition including negotiations and strikes

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