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week 2 Flashcards

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Why is the social world important? 4 points

  • What would life be w/out socially shared expectations?
  • what influences the world?
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  • humans are fundamentally social beings
  • we take social patterns for granted as routine, ordinary, and expected
  • w/out socially shared expectations, life would be chaotic
  • individuals and the social world influence each other
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What/Define Sociology

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it is the scientific study of social life, social change, and social causes and consequences of human behavior

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What does the discipline of sociology focuses on?

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  • focus on patterns of behavior in society. Rather than looking at the individual human psyche or the economic or political system, we focus on how humans create these structures in society in the first place
  • patterns of behaviors that occur within these structures identify groups in which you belong
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What are some ideas underlying assumptions of sociology?

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  • people are social by nature
  • people live most of their lives in groups
  • interactions between people/groups are reciprocal: each influences the other
  • groups feature recurrent social patterns ordered behavior, shared expectations and common understanding
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5
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explain the concept of probability vs, certainties in soc?

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  • it focuses on groups not individuals
  • can predict behavior of aggregate groups
  • cannot predict behavior of any single individual or event
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explain groups in sociology/examples

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  • dyads: ex.couple/bffs
  • small ex. race
  • large: ex.catholic
  • nations (US)
  • global society world as an interdependent entity
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what is the sociological perspective?

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understanding human behavior by placing it w/in its broader context

  • individual outcomes are partly results of forces and structures that are outside
  • all affect people differently
  • w/ collective mobilization we can change those structures
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what does the soc perspective help us do?

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it helps us see the links between what people do and the social settings that shape their behavior

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what is the social imagination? why?

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perspective one can differentiate between
-personal troubles
-public issues
because some people may look at their personal problems as social issues

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example of social imagination?

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poverty as a personal issues

poverty as a public issue

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the social imaginations enables us to..

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grasps connections between history / biography

  • history-each society is located in a broad stream of events
  • gives societs their specific characteristics
  • biography: specific experiences that give individuals in life
  • external forces not instinct influences human behavior and outcomes
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Questions Sociologists Ask – and Don’t Ask

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Don’t ask questions that require philosopical or moral judgements
-Do ask questions that can be studied objectively and scientifically

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Examples of questions asked

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  • Why and how do people and groups interact with one another?
  • How are different groups or societies organized?
  • How do they deal with conflict and change?
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Groups are characterized by

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  • Recurrent social patterns (static structure)
  • Ordered behavior (static structure)
  • Shared experiences among members (dynamic-interaction)
  • Common understandings (dynamic interaction)
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Sociology vs. common sense

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  • common sense ideas seem sensible to any reasonable person; they are taken for granted and rarely questioned
  • sociology uses scientific methods to test ideas, including common sense assumptions
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C. Wright Mills

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described this type of creative thinking as the ability to view one’s own society as an outsider; it allows us to look beyond a limited understanding of things and people in the world, and allows for a broader vision of society

17
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social sciences

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aspects of human behavior and social life

18
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ind. perspective

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  • people lives are a result of their own decisions
  • forces and structures affect all people the same so personal experience explains a lot
  • people must change themselves
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social sci vs. anthro, psych, polsci

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social sciences aspects of human behavior and social life
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cultural anthropology focuses on the way of life or culture of a group
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psychology focuses on individual behavior and mental processes
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political sciences focuses on government systems and power

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essential ingredients in sociology study

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  • ability to observe what is happening in the social world
  • desire to understand and explain why it’s happening
  • some practical rewards of sociological study
  • self-awareness and self-improvement
  • better understanding of social situations
21
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what sociologists do

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  • work in colleges and universities
  • work in social service and organizations
  • work in business
  • work in government
22
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social units

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interconnected parts of the social world

23
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social structure

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a particular combination of social unites that orders our lives- stable patterns of interactions, statuses, roles, and orgs. that provide stability for society and bring order to individuals

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social institution

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provide the rules, roles, and relationships to meet human needs and guide human behavior

25
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national society

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a population of people living in a specified area with a common political authority, many common ideas, and a social structure and institutions

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social processes

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actions taken by people in social units

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process of socialization

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how we learn to be productive members of society

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process of stratification

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process of layering people on the basis of birth, income, or other factors

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process of change

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every social unit is continually changing, and change in each unit affects others

30
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enviornment

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the setting that surrounds and influences each social unit

31
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micro-level (individuals and small groups)

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micro interactions form the basis of all social organizations

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meso-level (intermediate sized units)

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helps explain the processes and institutions in a society

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maro-level (focus on entire nations, global forces, and international trends)

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helps understand how larder social forces shape everyday life

34
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sociology 4 realms

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  • basic science; expanding knowledge
  • critical sociology; debate, argument, and controversy
  • applied research; application of knowledge to real-world problems
  • public activism; working for social change
35
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the social world model allows us..

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to picture levels of anaylsis in our social environment as an interconnected series of small groups, orgnizations, institutions, and societies

36
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level of analysis

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size of the social group being considered from the smallest to largest

37
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socialization

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how we learn to be productive members of society process of stratification- process of layering people on the basis of birth income or other factors

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