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Systematic study of human action in social context.

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Sociology

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Are patterns of intimate social relations formed during face to face interactions. Families, friendships , circles and work associations.

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Microstructures

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Are patterns of social relations that lie outside and above your circles of intimate acquaintances. Class relations and patriarchy, the traditional system of economic and political inequality between men and women in most societies.

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Marcostructures

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International organizations , patterns of worldwide travel and communication and the economic relations between countries.

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Global Structures

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While acknowledging that each individual is unique, we realize that society acts differently on various categories of people. Stresses social contexts in which people live.

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Sociological Perspective

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Approach to explanation in which we seek to exhaust the item syncretic causes of a particular condition or event trying to . List all the reasons you choose to attend your particular university

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Idiographic

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An approach to explanation And which we seek to identify a few casual factors that influence a class of conditions or events. Choosing two or three key factors that determine what university you choose

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Nomothetic

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The sociological perspective stresses the social contexts in which people live and how these contexts influence their lives. A way of looking at the world that links private problems of the world and important social issues. How people are influenced by their society.

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Social Imagination

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What we know as a part and parcel of the culture we share with those around us

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Agreement reality

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A variable is assumed to depend on or because buy another if you find that an income is partly a function of amount of formal education income is being treated as the dependent variable

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Dependent Variables

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What we know from personal experience and discovery

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Experiential reality

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Variable with values that are not problematic in any analysis but are taken as simply given an independent variable is presumed to cause or determine a dependent variable.

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Independent Variables

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The defining characteristics of people or things

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Attributes

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Logical groupings of attributes. The variable gender is mader up of the attributes male to female.

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Variables

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The process of giving prominence to particular individuals by focusing media attention on them

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Status Conferral

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Situation in which people so overwhelmed by the amount of information they received that they become none and do not act on the information.

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Narcotization

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The extensive infusion of one\'s national culture in other nations

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Cultural imperialism

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Reocialization involves deliberately trying to install particular values and behaviors in people who are members of tightly net groups such as fraternities sports teams or of total institutions. Causes rapid change in people\'s roles and values and self conception sometimes against their will

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Resocialization

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Military covents prisons boarding schools psychiatric hospitals people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time

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Total Institutions

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is the process by which people act toward respond to other people and is the foundation for all relationships and groups in society

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Social Interaction

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is a stable pattern of social relationships that exist within a particular group or society

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Social Structure

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this state of being part insider and park outsider in the social structure

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Social marginality

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a term used to describe all the status is that a person occupies a given time

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Status Set

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a small less specialized privilege members engage in face to -based interactions over extended time. Groups where norms, roles and statues are agreed upon not necessarily in writing. Family

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Primary group (social )

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larger more specialized group in which the members engage in more in personal goal oriented relationships for limited time

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Secondary group (social)

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a set of organized belifs that rule and establish how society will attempt to meet its basic needs

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Social institution

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Emile Durkheim\'s term for the social cohesion that exists in preindustrial societies in which there is minimal division of labor and people feel united by shared values and social

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Mechanical solidarity

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Emile Durkheim\'s term for the social cohesion that exists in industrial and perhaps postindustrial society in which people perform specialized tasks and feel united by their mutual dependence

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Organic solidarity

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the process by which our perception of reality is shaped largely by the subjective meaning that we give to experience

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Social construction of reality

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The study of The common sense knowledge that people used to understand situations in which they find themselves

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Ethonmethodology

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a term for people\'s efforts to present themselves to others in ways that are most favorable to their own interest payments

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Impression management

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Stresses that human behaviour is governed by stable patterns of social relations( Social structures)  Shows how cycle structures can either maintain or undermine social stability  Suggests social structures are based mainly on shared values of preferences  Aruges that re-establishing equilibrium is best way to solve most social problems

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Functionalist Theory (Durkheim)

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focusues on a large macro-level structures  Shows how major patterns of inequality circumstances and social changes in others  Stresses how member of privileged construct laws and rule to retain their power

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Conflict Theory (Karl Marx)

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the logical model in which general principles are developed from specific observations have it noted that Jews and Catholics are more likely to vote liberal the protestants are you might conclude that the religious minorities in Canada are more affiliated with the Liberal party and explain why this is being example of induction

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Induction

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The logical model with specific expectations of hypothesis are developed on the basis of general principles starting from the general principle that all jeans are meanies you might anticipate that this will let you change courses this anticipation would be the result of deduction

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Deduction

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this theory has guided most of human history I Early ancestors assumed that they saw things as they really were  as humans evolved and became aware of their diversity they came to recognize that other did not we share their views on things

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The Pre-Modern View

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recognizes such diversity amongst people as legitimate a philosophical different strokes for different folks. Neither of us is right or wrong

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The Modern View

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nothing is real nothing exists although it\'s really the images we get through our points of view put differently there\'s nothing out there it\'s all in here

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The Post Modern View

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a tentative explanation of some observed regularity

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Theory

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the detailed description of a particular culture our way of life for the written result of a participation observation study

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Ethnography

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Field method city how individual interacted every day settings  Surveys interviews focus group  An Analysis of existing documents and official statistics

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Main Methods of Sociology

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Measurement and procedure by which researchers this criteria for assigning values to variable how are you doing the concept would counsel would does not count

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Operationalize

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involve incorrect infrence about the casual relations between variables

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Superilous relationships

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a method of collecting information by having people over quite their own answers to preset questions

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Self Administered Questionnaire

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this study of social life involves the participation of the research and to varying degrees in the activities of the group under investigation ; attempts to give an insider\'s account of the particular way of life and cultural system

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Participant observation

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is the generalizability other particular finding from the study group to a larger population the relevance of conclusions for a larger population or the ability to the further that the results of the study are represented to of a process operating in an broader population

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External validity

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Surveillance  Interpretation  Socialization  Entertainment

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4 Functions of the media

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is the crucial learning process that occurs in childhood and initiate their entry into society (families)

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Primary Socialization

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To be a student, sponsor, parent learning a new job making new friends taking on new hobbies joining clubs I\'ll involves socialization this kind of learning (schools)

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Secondary socialization

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is the vital link between individuals and society including values/norms/roles

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Socialization

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Earlier thinkers believe that the self emerges naturally the way a seed germinates. A departure from previous thinking argues the only SOCIAL INTERACTION allows us to emerge

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Sigmund Freud First emergence of self

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Persons self grows out of society\'s interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others people shape their self concept is based on their understanding of how people perceive. The social mirror there\'s no sense of self self image emerges as a product of involvement in and groups and communication with others. Significant others followed by primary group

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Cooley - The Looking Glass Self

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This subjective part of the self \"I\" and the objective part of the self \"Me\"  The \"I\" acts  The \"Me\" reflects on our actions through the lens of social norms, values and expectations . Taking the Role

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Mead I & Me

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1st. Stage imitative stage children younger than two years old have no real conception of themselves their language skills are insufficiently developed to allow them to communicate effectively when they play they often acted the behavior associated with certain roles such as a mother father dancer or a firefighter for what they are doing is not true role-playing only mimicking her imitation    2. Stage Play Stage begin to adopt the roles of significant others there play shifts from imitative too imaginative. They learn to anticipate peoples reactions with out having to act of the situation.    3. Final Stage Game stage develop a generalized impression of behavior people expect an awareness of their own importance to the group need use the metaphor of the game to describe the complex behavior required at this stage there is a continual adjusting behaviors to meet the needs of the team

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3 Stages in \" Taking the Role of the Other (Mead)\"

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sense of individual identity that allows us to understand who we are in relation to others and to differentiate ourselves

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The \"Self\"

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IMPACTS BEHAVIOUR ON AN UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL. HABITUS many of these different individual aspects that are shaped by our social environment will go unnoticed. Differentiate from habit in one important , habitus are not just the consequences of individual history but they also generative (outcomes). DISPOSITION

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Pierre Bourdieu

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Primary Socialization  Secondary Socialization  Peer groups  mass media

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Agents of Socialization

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consists of individuals who are not necessarily friends but as of the same age group and of similar status. Groups

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Peer Groups

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What your excepted to do

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Prescriptive norms

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What your excepted NOT to do

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Proscriptive norms

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claims that the patriarchy is least as important as class inequality in determining a perks\'s opportunities in life. It hold that male domination and female subordination are determined not by biological necessity buy by structures of power and social convention.

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Feminist Theory

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face-to-face communication of interaction in micro level social settings. It emphasizes an adequate explanation of social behavior requires understanding of the subjective meeting people attached to their social circumstances it\'s just the people help to create their social circumstances and do not merely react them. It validates unpopular nonofficial viewpoints thus increasing understanding of tolerance of people who maybe

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Symbolic Interactionism

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is the generalizability of a particular finding from the study group to a larger population

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External validity

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Is the relevance or accuracy of a measurement in relation to the theoretical concept that it is suppose to measure

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Validity

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