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| Question | Answer |
| sociological imagination | capacity to shift one perspective to another (personal trouble&societal issues) *C. Wright Mills |
| structural functionalism | examines systems as "separate parts" (like human body) *Emilie Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Mearton |
| social facts | well established patterns of behaviour that are independent of individuals that make society BUT influence it / way people act |
| sociological theory | 1. applicability 2. important issue 3. stood the test of time |
| conflict theory | complex societies are made up of groups in conflict, with 1+ group dominating/oppressing the other ~ conflict, class, contestation, change *Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Lewis A. Croser |
| symbolic interactionism | looks at meaning of daily social interactions *Max Weber, George H. Mead, Herbert Blumer, Erving Hoffman |
| feminist theory | *Mary Wollstonecraft, Hariet Martineau, Dorothy Smith |
| postmodernism theory | concerned with recognizing there are many voices & they shouldn't be "drowned out" by a powerful voice(s) |
| professional sociology | generate specific info to apply to situation ** academic crowd ** |
| critical sociology | conscious of sociology, don't loose sight of issues ** academic audience ** |
| policy sociology | generate data to be used in dev't of social policy for gov/corps - very political - |
| public sociology | easy/simplified for the masses |
| povitism | methods of natural science studies would work in social science (outsider = key, objective) *August Comte |
| quantitive research | social elements that can be measured or counted ex: surveys & experiments |
| qualitative research | close examination of characteristics that can't be measured or counted ex: ethnography, institutional ethnography, case-study, narratives |
| ethnography | direct observation & extended field research |
| correlation | when two variables are associated more frequently than could be expected by chance |
| causation | change in one variable causes change of another |
| spurious reasoning | sees correlation and falsely assumes causation |
| simulacra | stereotypical cultural images (re)produced through media, etc. *Jean Baudrillad |
| 1. folkways 2. mores 3. taboos | 1. norms governing day-to-day matters (ex: etiquette) 2. must not break (ex: laws) 3. norms that are ingrained in us that it's disgusting and wrong (ex: incest) |
| cultural relatism | approach to studying context of an aspect of another culture |
| 1. sociolinguistics 2. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | 1. study of language as apart of culture 2. relationship between language & culture (words&meanings are culture specific) |
| dominant culture | culture of "majority" - imposes values, language, beliefs, and saviours on society |
| subordinate culture | feels power of dominant culture and exist in opposition of it |
| subculture | deviates from main stream society BUT doesn't oppose dominant culture ex: Hutterites |
| counterculture | reject selected element of dominant culture ex: hippies |
| high culture | culture of elite, requires specific cultural capital |
| pop culture | culture of majority |
| mass culture | created by those in power for masses (directed towards consumers) |
| primary socialization | earliest socialization child receives |
| secondary socialization | socialization that occurs later in a child's life |
| determinism | degree individual behaviour, attitude & personal characteristics are determined / caused by specific factor |
| biological determinism | greater part of what/who we are determined by our genes nature over nurture |
| social determinism AKA behaviourism | emphasizes power of learning in dev't of behaviour nurture over nature |
| law of effect | 1. do good > rewarded > greater chance you do it again 2. do bad > punished > lesser chance you do it again *Edward Thorndike |
| Sigmund Frued' 3 parts of mind | 1. ID (instinct) 2. Superego (social conscious) 3. Ego (mediates 1 & 2) |
| 4 Main Agents of Socialization | family, peer group, education system & mass media |
| resocialization | process of unlearning old ways & learning new ways of different social environment **can be voluntary or involuntary ** |
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