The Exam Flashcards

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Sociological Imagination

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Awareness of the personal experience in the context of society

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Personal troubles/public issues

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Troubles happen to you and you talk to other people to see if they are not only your problem

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Sociology as a discipline

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Formed in the industrial era because lots of peeps moving close together so it was easy to see differences within society. Some social mobility

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Social Determinism vs probabilistic

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Probabilistic- if you you experienced this, then you are more likely to blah. SD- if you experienced this, then you will do that.

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Human agency

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Free will. How much have to affect conditions of life. HH decided to drop out

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6
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Micro/macro sociology

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Micro- individual approach (symbolic) macro group of people

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7
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Generalizations

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Based on observation

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8
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Stereotypes

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Not based on fact

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9
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Ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures practices by the standards of your own culture

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10
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Cultural relativism

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Every group has its own logical step outside perspective.

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The self

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Language in which parties articulate visions of what is good/right

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12
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Durkheim

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Protestants more likely to kill themselves, sociological imagination

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Social fact

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Values cultural norms and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint

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14
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Anomic altruistic suicide

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Not connected vs social values promote (suicide bombers)`

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15
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Functionalism

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Social order –> deviance affirms cultural values/norms. Responding brings people together

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Conflict theory

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Power. Those we label as deviant are powerless. Laws reflect interest of rich

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Micro level. How people come to know themselves. How people make meaning of their situation

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Looking Glass Self

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How one imagines themselves in context of the minds of others

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Performance

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Conducted by participants in order to influence interaction

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Front stage

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Performance in progress

21
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Scripts

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social lubrication of interaction

22
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Back stage

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place relative to a given performance, where impressions fostered by the performance knowingly contradicted as a matter of course

23
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Double consciousness

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Looking only at yourself through the eyes of others. Never being American and black

24
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Intersectionality

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Race, class, sexuality. You’re aware of all parts

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Social location
Where you stand in society
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Social structure
ties to organizations and social institutions
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Sex
socially agreed upon bio category
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Gender
managing situated conduct normative attitudes/activities
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Gender socialization
Cultural means by which norms/restrictions to adhere to the traditional patterns that maintain social functioning
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Social construction of sexuality
Classifications are the product of power struggles b/w groups. Society teaches us which sensations are sexual
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Essentialist vs constructivist view
sexuality basic part of being human vs social product
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Deviance
departing from what is socially normal
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Social norms
appropriate behavior in specific situations that are not regulated by laws, but agreed as the right way to act
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Social control
norms berger
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Concentric circles of social control
Formal- get caught cheating informal- you shouldn't cheat internalized- no one is watching but you still don't cheat because you feel society
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Functions of deviance
Affirms cultural values/norms. Responding brings people together. Clarifies moral boundaries and encourages changes
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Life history method/theoretical sample
Life history is an in depth interview. Theoretical sample developing a theory as it emerges
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Gender-identity development
developed early child. How they connect with being male or female
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gender entrapment
because of social location and gender women who thought they were special can't get the jobs they want because of social location and then can't make money and so they marry
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Marital rape
pretty shitty stuff
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Functional need for stratification
social order society division of society into layers of differential power and prestige
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the american dream
fucking bull shit
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achievement ideology
if you work hard you'll get what you want
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ethnography
description of customs of individual people people and cultures
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Social reproduction theory
school enforces inequality by teaching rich to take the top of econ while poor accept low class
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economic derterminism
if you are born into X class, you will wind up in that class
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cultural capital
general cultural background, knowledge, disposition, skills that are passed from one generation to the next
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Habitus
attitude that source surrounded by expectations
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leveled aspirations
not told to have higher aspirations, so you don't and then don't achieve more