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08/27/2012

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sociological imagination
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begin with C.Wright Mills, a phrase he coined in 1959, according to mills we live in a very small orbit, and our world view is limited by the social situations we encounter on a daily basis.
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social structure
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the connection about college admissions is perpetuated as a valid idea by cable television news, certain newspapers, magazines, web sites, and everyday conversation
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globalization
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the growth of world interdependence. can depend om local phenomia
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Emile durkheim
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thought htat many of his predecessors ideas was really speculative and vague and (Auguste comte) had not successfully carried out his program to establish sociology on a scientific basis. but Emile thought that sociologist must develop methodological principles to guide their research.
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social facts
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aspects of social life that shapes our actions as individuals, such as the state of the economy or the influence of religion.
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Auguste comte
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invented the word sociology to describe the subject he wished to establish, he believed that the scientific method could be applied to the study of human behavior and society, and that this new filed could produce knowledge of society based on scientific evidence.
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organic solidarity according Emile Durkeiem
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for society to have a continueing existence over time, its specialized in (institutions, such as political system, religion,family,and educational system) must all function as a integrated whole. called .....
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social constraint
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far more then an individuals acts when we analyze social structures , we study characteristics that have a "firmness" or "solidity" comparable to those of structures in the physical world.
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Anomie
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a feeling of aimlessness or despair provoked by modern social life.
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Karl max
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according to Karl max, (it is not the ideas or values human beings hold that are the main sources of social change as-> (Durkiem claimed). rather, social change is prompted primarily by economic influences.
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Capitalism
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a class system in which conflict is inevitable because it is in the interests of the ruling class to exploit the working class to exploit the working class and in the interests of the workers to seek to overcome that.
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bureaucracy
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a large organization that is diveded into jobs based on specific functions ans staffed by officials ranked according to a hierarchy.
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W.E.B DU BOIS
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the first african american to earn a doctorate at havard university.
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max webber
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in webers view, economic factors are important, but ideas and values have just as much effect as social change.
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micro-sociology
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the study of human behavior in contexts of face to face interaction.
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macro-sociology
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the study of large-scale groups. organizations, or social systems.
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jean baudrillard
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believed that electronic media have created a chaotic, empty world. also he believed we respond to media images, than to real persons or places.
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theories
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are more narrowly focused and attempt to explain particular social conditions or types of events, they are usual formed during the research process and suggested other problems subsequent research.
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Rtionization according to max webber
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means social, economic and cultural life organizations according to principles of efficiency, on the basis of technical knowledge.
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Harriet Martineau
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the first woman sociologist, first, she argued that
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latent functions
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unintended consequence of social activity occurs.
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symbolic interactionism
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develop by George Herbert mead, symbol and language as core elements of all human interaction.
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manifest functions
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the people are known to and apart of what is intended in the social activity.
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functionalism
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marxism
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power
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feminist theory
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gender,
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