sociology
Terms
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3 Different levels of society's complexity that sociologists study
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micro
middle
macro
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Anomie
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-what people who do not share the underlying moral order, or social conscience experience
-alienation
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Emile Durkheim
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Social Solidarity
anomie-
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Feminist Perspective
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indentifies gender as core of conflicts in society.
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Macro level
- whole populations
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Middle level
- communities
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Social solidarity
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groups that play together, stay together
integration
People share a set of values and expectations for appropriate behavior
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Sociological Perspectives
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Functionalist
Conflict
-feminist
Interactionist
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Structural - Functionalist Perspective
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how each person's function interacts with others to meet the needs of society.
- Auguste Comte
- coined term "Sociology"
- Conflict Perspective
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focuses on social change. How power affects the distribution of resources.
(inequality of power & control)
- Globalization
- The increasing interconnectedness of contemporary cultures and societies.
- Ineractionism
- how social interaction of people or groups defines society.
- Micro level
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small scale or group
(i.e family)
- Social Change
- Examining the means through which culture and society change over time.
- Social Inequality
- Differences in the way rewards, opporunities, and other social resources are allocated.
- Sociological imagination
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(C. Wright Mills)
An ability to see the connections between "biography" (individual lives) and "history" (larger social forces)
- Verstehen
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(understanding)Max Weber
The notion that social reality can be discovered only by seeing the world empathetically through the lived experiences of people.
- endogamy
- marriage in which the couple is members of the same race and cuture