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Sociology
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10/04/2014

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WEB DuBois
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1st black man ot get PHD from harvard. Taught some historical black collegues, Problem of 20th century is rac relation.
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Marshall Poe
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5 major human communication
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You work toward it
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Achieved status
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Way we think, work hard you can acheive it
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Achivement ideaology
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Messages were 7% verbal, 38% vocal, and 55% facial
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Albert Mehrabian
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Comes from Chicago School- Univerisity of Chicago
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American Sociology
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History applies to?
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Applies to what happens in society, affects everyone
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Biography applies to
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Applies to you, not everyone
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Symbolic interactionism
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Argues that society emerges from and is changed by process of human beings interacting using symbol based in shared meanings
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Given to you. Ex. agem race, gender
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Ascribed statues
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Social facts
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Aspects of socila life that cant be explained in terms of biological or mental characterisitcs of the indivdiual
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Study of society must be scientific, use systematice observations, ecperimnetations and comparative historical analysisi. Divided study of society into social statics and social dynamics
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Auguste Comte
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Trouble
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Biography, personal problems
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Social demarcation lines hat tell us where interaction beings and ends. Ex. Naighborhoos, or religous groups
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Boundaires
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Values
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Broas ideas regarding what is deirable correct, and good that most members of a society share.
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Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
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By Edward Supir& Whoef. people conceptualize the world differently depending on nature of concepts for their language.
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Socail comparison
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Compairing their performance, ability or characteristics with those of other and rating themselves as eupiro, equal or inferior
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6/7 years- 11/12 years. Thinking more abstactly, simple math on hand, think less rigid, see things like others
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Concerte operational stage
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Focuses on inequality, expolration, oppositon, soical turmoil and soical change
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Confict Theory
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Rejects many of the behavioral standerds and guideposts that hold in the dominat culture. ex. Cellphones
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Conterculture
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Patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies. Livihood, soialize children. Marriage
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Cultural Universals
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Groupthink
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Decision making process found in highly cohesive groups in whihc the members become so preoccupied with maintaining consensus that their critical faculties are imparied. No critical analysis
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Leader allowed boys to help make decisions outlined only general goals, happiers, displaced independence
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Democratic Style
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Conformity: reason people conform
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Desire to be corredct and desire to be accpted by gorup
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Notion that development depends on the clash of oppposing social forces and the subsequent creation of new, more advanced structures
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Dialectical materialism
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WHo owns factories and who works for them
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Economy Deterninism
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Placing ourselces at the center of events, overprecieve ourselves as the target of an action that in reality is not directed at us
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Egocentric bias
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Important, critizied Marx for being too concerned about economy. People are linked to diff elements of society, Society pulls togother=social intergration
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Emile Durkheim
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Functionalism
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Emphasizes order and stability
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Micro Sociology
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Entails the detailed study of what people say, do, and think. Smaller scale
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Richard Peterson
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Expressive Symbolism: conncecteed to society in many important ways. relfcetion of society, carriea code that enable peopel to recreate society form 1 day and form 1 generation
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Focuses on overcoming interpesonla problems in the group, defusing tensions and promoting solidartiy
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Expressive leader
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He came up with Gemeinshaft and Gesellchaft
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Ferdinand Tonnies
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Maco Sociology
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Focuses on large scale and long term social processes of orginizations.
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people deen to be less imprtance to them
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Folkways
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11/12- Adulthood. Develop abstrat and logical abilites, more complex math
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Formal operations stage
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Auguste Comte
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Founder of sociology
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Culture Supplies
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Frame workd that aloows people to interpret events & guide their actions, society consists of the acutal erb of realtions that people enter into
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Play stage, game stage, generalized other.
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George Herbert Mead
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Consists of 2 or more people who are bound together in relatively stable patterns of soical interaction.
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Group
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Takes princples of darwinism & applies it to society, always improving. Survail of the fittest, didnt need government to get involved.
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Herbert Spencer
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Looked at art culture vs. high society culture. Divided cultures into different, based on social class.
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Herbet Dans
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Issues
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History
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intentions, values, beliefs, and attitudes tha under lie peoples behaviors
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Human subjectivity
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Presenting ourseves to others in ways that will lead them mto view us in in a favorable light
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Impresstion Management
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Devoted to appraising the problem at hand and orfanizing peoples activity to deal with it. Formal type
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Instrumental leader
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Social Structure
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Interweaving of peoples interactions & relationships in more or less recureetrnt & stable patterens
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Social Statics
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Involves those aspects of soical life that have to do with order, stability, and soical organization that aloow societies and gourps to hold together and endure
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Hyposthesized that every normal child goes through four stages of cognitive development
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Jean Piaget
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Ethnocentrism
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Judging the behavior of other groups by the standards of our own culture. All groups are.
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Got bounced around and kicked out of Germany because of ideas. Class conflict.
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Karl Marx
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Leader adopted a passice, univolved stance
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LAissez- Faire style
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Thos consequences that are not intended or recognized
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Latene Functions
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Authoritatian Style
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Leader made unilareral decisions, gave step by step directions, assigned work patterns.
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Process by which we imaginatievely assume the satcne of other people and view oursleves as we believe they see us
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Looking glass self
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Charles Horton Cooley:
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Looking glass self, self awarness, self image, self conception, and self evaluation
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Sheldon Srtiker looked at?
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Macro and Micro sociology
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Those conswquences that are intended and recongized
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Manifest Functions
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Who was an economice determinist
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Marx
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Physical artifacts or objects
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Materical culture
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About understanding whats going on in society
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Max Weber
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Agent or agency
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Means i have some control
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Being so much alike
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Mechanical Solidarity
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Seen as vitual to a societys well being doint want to violate
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Mores
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Language acquisition device: language generating mechanism
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Noam Chomsky
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Abstaract creation sucha s values, beliefs
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Nonmaterail culture
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Social rules that specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior in stituation
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Norms
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Class conflict
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Ones who produce wealth and ones who dont.
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Erving goffman
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Only by infunecing other peoples ideas of us can we hope to predict or control who we become
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Held togother by the interdependence fostered by the differences amoung people
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Organic Solidartiy
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Status
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Person's ranking as determinded by wealth, influence, and prestige.
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18 months- 6/7 years. Represtational thought, thinking rigis and inflexible
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Preoperational stage
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A small group characteized by intimate, informal interaction. Expressice ties in primary group, provides setting to meet personal needs
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Primary Group
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Way we employ social and personal space
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Proxemics
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Culture
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Refers to social heriatage of people- learn patterens of thinking, feeling and acting, transmitted from 1 generations to another
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Social Intergration
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Refers to the density of social realtionships, literally the # of realtionships that exist amound a collection of people
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Appraisal of ouselces that we see relected in the behavior of others
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Reflected appraisal
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Association that lasts long enough for 2 people to become linked to gether by relatively stable set of expecations
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Relationship
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Discontent associated wiht the gap between what we have ans what we beliebe we shoul dhabe. Often contribute to social alienations and provide fertile conditions for collective behavior and revolutionary social movements
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Relative Deprication
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One status, but a lot of jobs for it
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Role strain
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Role conflict
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Roles/ tasks of different status conflict with eachother
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Entails two or more people who are involved in an impersonal relationship and have come together for a specific, practical purpose. Insturmental ties
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Secondary Group
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Slef esteem and personal efficacy
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Self evaluation
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A mental conception or picture that we have of ourselves that is relatively temporary-- changes as we move form one context to another
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Self image
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A move overriding view of oursleves a sense of self through times
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Self- Conception
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Birth- 18 months. Children learn directly through their senses, thier movements
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Sensorimotor stage
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Gemenishaft
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Small group, more closely tired together
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People least ________________ are more likely to commit suiciude.
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Social Intergrated
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A situation in which memebers of a group are faced with a conflice between maximizing their personal interests and maximizing the collective welfare
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Social dilemmas
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Refers to those processes of social life that pattern institiutional development and have to do with social change
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Social dynamics
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Expressive ties
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Social links formed when we emotionally invest ourselves in and ocmmit oursleves to other people. We achiece a sense of security, love, acceptance and personal worth
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Process in which indicidulas work less hard when working in groups than they would working on own
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Social loafing
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Social Stucture
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Social orderin: the interweavingn of people interations and relationships in more or less recurrent and stable patterns
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Gesellschat
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Society as a whole
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Instrumental ties
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Soical links formed when we coopeate with other peole to achieve some goal. May mean working with enemies.
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Role Exit
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Sometimes leads to stressful outcomes. Occurs when people stop playing roles that have been central to their lives to their social identities
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Everything looked at to how it contributes to how it is looked
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Structural funcalism
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Group whose members participate in the main culture of society while simultaneously share a number of unique values, norms and traditons
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Subculture
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Political ideplogies, religion, family organization, education and government
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Superstructure
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comes in play when theres confusion or embarssing times
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Tact
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Social solidarity
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Tendency of people to maintian social relationships
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Provides a set of assumptions. Interrelatied concepts, and statements about how various soical phenomena are realted to one another.
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Theoretical Perspective
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Negative Refernce Group
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Those that represent to us what we are not or do not wish to be
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Froms by adding one person to a dyad, far more conswuential than adding one person to any other size group
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Triad
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Dyads
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Two person group
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Post Subculture
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Type of groups, ideas are different thatn ideas of subculture
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Not allow biased to affect research, most try to practic this in field.
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Value- Free Sociology
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Cultural relativism
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Views the behavior of a people from the perspective of their won cultre. Value free or neutral approach form Weber.
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Social Imagination
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We see our experinces are where we fit in society
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Contemporary Sociology: critcal Sociology
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What conversative people are liberal, outspoken about what is going on. The way they look at individuals.
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Master status
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carries primary weight in interact with others. Most important
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Self Awareness
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how we appear for other, how they judge us on apperance, emotional reaction based on what we percieve others
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Society
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refers to a gourp of people ho live within the samme territory and share a common culture
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Reference Groups
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social units we use for appraising and shping attitudes, feelings and actions.
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Anthing that is meant to represent somthing
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symbol
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Positive Refence Groups
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those having characteristics that we have or wish we had
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Dramaturgical approach
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views the prefomrance stages in thearther as an analytical analogy and tool for depicting soical life
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