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Unit 1-Intro To Soc Flashcards

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Latent function

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Unintended and unconscious

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Robert Merton

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Key functionalist: latent and manifest

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Manifest function

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Open stated & conscious

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Auguste Comte

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Founder of Sociology

Social statics and social dynamics

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Social statics

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What holds the society together?

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Social dynamics

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What causes the society to change?

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Sociology

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Systematic study of social behavior & human groups

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Sociological perspective

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A way of regarding situations, the way you ‘see’ things

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Social location

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The corners of life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society

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Emile Durkheim

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  • developed sociological perspective

- suicide passion

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Social structure

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Patterned interactions of people in social relationships

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Conformity

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Occurs because members of a group have been taught to value the group’s ways

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C. Wright Mills

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Sociological imagination

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Sociological imagination

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Ability of individuals to see the relationships between events in their personal lives and events in their society

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3 factors that led to the development of sociology

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  • industrial revolution
  • imperialism
  • scientific success
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Herbert Spencer

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“2nd founder of sociology”
Social Darwinism
Society operated under some fixed laws
Compared body to society

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Karl Marx

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Key to human history is class conflict
Conflict perspective 
Viewed struggle between social classes as inevitable
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Max Weber

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How social groups affect peoples orientations to life

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Harriet Martineau

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Feminist theorist

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Jane Addams

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Social reform

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W.E.B DuBois

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Attacked the “negro problem”

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Functionalist perspective

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Sees Society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival

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Conflict Perspective

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Sees the world and continual struggle

Emphasizes conflict, competition, change

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Symbolic interactionism

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examines how people react in order to understand society as a whole

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George Herbert Mead

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Founder of interactionalist perspective

Focused on human interactions w/in one to one situations

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Herbert Blumer

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Coined term symbolic interactionism & outlined 3 assumptions to this perspective

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Symbols

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  • we learn the meaning from the way we see others react to it
  • once we learn the meaning we base our behavior on them
  • we use the meanings to imagine how others will respond to our behaviors

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