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SOC 101
Intor to sociology chapter one terms
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
01/28/2011

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➢ Ideal Type
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Max Weber, end goal of spectrum, good and evil, abstract statement of the essential characteristics of any social phenomenon-Auguste Comte
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➢ Anomie
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normlessness, out of sync with society, Emile Durkheim
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➢ False Consciousness
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rejected by Karl Marx the explanation that short comings are the result of an individual not the flaws of society
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➢ Sociology
Definition
systematic study of human society/ A way of under standing based on science.
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➢ Mechanical Solidarity
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Durkhiem, social bonds based on shared moral values and sentiment
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➢ Organic Solidarity
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social bonds based on independence and specialization
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➢ Capitalists
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factory owners, people who own and operate factories and other businesses in the pursuit of profit. Karl Marx
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➢ Proletariat
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factory workers, those who sell their productive labor for wages. Karl Marx
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➢ Rationalization of Society
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Max Weber, historical change from tradition to rationality as the main type of human thought
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➢ Independent Variable
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What cause the change
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➢ Dependent Variable
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what changes
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➢ Reliability
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consistency in measurement
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➢ Validity
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measuring what you intend to measure
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➢ Spurious Correlation
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false correlation
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➢ Operationalization
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specifying before hand what is being measured
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