Sociology midterm

The study if human behavoirs as they are affected by social interactions within groups, organizations, societies, and the planet.

As everyday event in which the people involved take one another into ccount by conciously and unconsciously attaching mean to the situation, interpreting what others are saying, and then responding accordingly

Ideas, feelings and ways of behaving "that possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual."

A matter that can be explained only by factors outside an individuals control and immediate environment.

Personal needs, problems, and difficulties that can be explained as individual shortcomings related to motivation, attitude, ability, character, or judgment

a relatively stable and predictable arrangment among people that has emerged over time to coordinate human interaction and behavior in ways that meetsome social need

the ability to connect seemingly impersonal and remote social forces and historical event to the most basic incidents of an individuals life. the sociological imagination enable poeple to distinguish between perosnal troubles and public issues

an ongoing process by which mechanized systems of production and transportation have replaced handmade, muscle-driven, laber-intensive systems

the addition of external sources of power, such as coal, oil, or steam, to hand tools and modes of transportation

in marxist theory, the major force that drives social change

the resources (land, tools, equipment, factories, transportation, and labor) essential to the production and distribution of goods and services

in marxist theory, owners of the means of production who exploit the labor of the proletariat

in marxist theory, individuals who must sell their labor to the bourgeoisie

the ties that bind people to one another in society

the act of severing relationships

suicide resulting from weak social ties that fail to attach the perosn to the group

suicide resulting from social ties so strong that the self has no life apart from the group

suicide resulting from social ties distrupted by dramatic change in econimic circumstances

suicide resulting from social ties whose disipline is so oppresssive it offers no change of release

actions people take in response to others

social action that pursues a goal in response to an emotion such as revenge, love, or loyalty

social action that pursues a goal because it is valued, with no thought of its consequences and often without considering the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it

social action that pursues a goal after it has been evaluated in relation to other goals and after thorough consideration of the various means to achieve it

a great spiritual voud accompanied by a crisis of meaning. it occurs when people focus so uncritically on the ways they go about achieving a valued goal that they lose sight of that goal

according to dubois " this sene of always looking at ones self thoug hthe eyes of othes, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" thr double consciousness inclusdes a sense of two-ness: an american a negro; two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings