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What is the definitions of Sociology?
Systematic study of human society, social groups and social interactions
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What is the definition of Role?
Norms specifying the rights and obligations associated with status
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What is the definition of 'The sociological imagination' by C. Wright Mills?
Problem can be either personal or public that determine issues in society
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What is the difference between public and personal troubles?
Public is external outside forces and personal are you own actions causing troubles
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What is meant by 'Social sciences'?
Research should be based on systematic examination of the evidence
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What are factors that contributed to the development of sociology?
Political, economic, and intellectual upheavals in the 18th and 19th century
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Who has been given credit for founding Sociology?
Auguste Comete
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What is positivism?
The idea a social world can be study with scientific accuracy
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What is Herbert Spencers contribution to Sociology?
Society adapts to environment and must study studied without any bias
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What are Karl Marx contribution to Sociology?
Economic determinism and dialectic
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What is Economic Determinism?
Economic relationships are foundation to all social and political issues
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What is Dialectic?
Th view that conflict between parts of society cause change
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What was Durkheim's work devoted to understanding?
Social stability
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What did Durkheim refer as community standards of morality?
The collective conscience
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According to Max Weber, Where did ideological foundation of capitalism come from?
It came from Religious values like: self discipline, thrift
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What did Jane Adams use social science data for?
Improve work condition, improve Juvenile justice, services for the poor, public Sanitation
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Which approach for sociology did Max Weber develop?
Value Free, study what is, not what ought to be
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Who devoted career to combating racism?
W.E.B. Dubois
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How does Sociology in the U.S. differ from Europe?
Europe focuses on broad theory and U.S. on understanding and solving
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Which major perspective questions social organization and how maintained?
Structural Functionalism
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Which theory want to know how social structure give unequal access to scare resources?
Conflict Theory
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What does conflict between competing interest result in?
Social change
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What does Symbolic Interaction theory address?
Subjective meaning of human acts which develop and are shared
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What is the major premise underlying symbolic interactionism?
How relationships form
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What are two major goals of research?
Accurate description and Accurate explanation
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What is the definition of Culture?
Way of life shared by members of a community
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What are examples of Material Culture?
Tools, streets, sculptures and bridges
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What are examples of Non-Material Culture?
Language, values and rules
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Which approach is more interested in how cultures shape individuals?
Structural-Functionalist
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What is the definition of Cultural Capital?
Knowledge and information that separate the social classes
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Which perspective focuses on the people find in culture and how it is created?
Conflict Theory
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Where do both Structural Function and Conflict theory agree concerning culture?
Culture is problem solving, relative and a social product
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Define ethnocentrism?
Tendency to judge other cultures based on the norms in your culture
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What are examples of Ethnocentrism?
foods, religious practices, funeral practices
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Define Cultural Relativity?
Cultural traits should be evaluated in the context of the culture
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What is the conclusion of Ethnocentrism?
Believing our way is best limits a culture from adopting ideas from others
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What does 'Culture as a Social product' mean?
It is a social issue not caused by Biological reasons
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Define Sociobiology?
Study of the Biological basis of human behaviors
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What are the carriers of Culture?
Language, Values and Norms
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Define Values?
Shared ideas about desired goals
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What Values are shared between most cultures?
Stability, security, family, and good health
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Define Norms?
Shared rules of conduct or How to act
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Define Mores?
Norms associated with a strong idea o right and wrong
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What are Laws?
Rules sanctioned by the Government
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Define Sanctions?
Rewards for conformity and punishment for non-conformance
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The fact that 1/2 of Men and Women have committed adultery shows example of what?
Deviance
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What are sub-cultures?
Groups that share the overall culture but have distinctive values
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What are counter-cultures?
Group with values and interest that are different from the larger culture
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Define Assimilation?
Process of when an individual adopts the dominant groups values
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The U.S. is sometimes referred to as a 'salad bowl' rather than 'melting pot' Why?
U.S. is seen as being multicultural
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What is multiculturalism?
Belief that different cultural strands in a culture is good
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Define Cultural Diffusion?
When one culture is combined with another one
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What is meant by the Globalization of Culture?
Cultural elements spread across the globe
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What is popular culture?
Aspects of culture that are widely shared
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