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Exam 1 SOCIOLOGY
exam 1 for sociology year 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
09/16/2012

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Cultural Pluralism
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Beaing able to see things from another persons perspective and just from your own experiences.
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what are 2 factors that help us gain a sociological perspective
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beaing socially marginal

beaing an outider

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What is the job of sociological theory?
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to explaine social behavior in the real world.
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Theorelical approach
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a basic image of socity that guides thinking and research.
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(Theoretical approach)

Structural Function Approach

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a framework for building theory

ex: handshake-greeting/marriage-companionship

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Who is auguste comte?
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the father of sociology
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Manifest functions
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The reconized and intended conequences of a any social patterns...intended
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Latent Functions
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unreconnized and unintended consquences of any social pattern , may reflect hidden purpose
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Sturctual function approach
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sees socity as stable and orderly
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The social conflict approach
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sees society as an arena of inequalty that generates conflict and change. highlights; class,race, gender ect.
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The symbolic interation approach
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how people experience society...sees socity as the product of everyday interactions
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What is the difference between functionalist and conflict???
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functionalist=stable and orderly

Conflict=arena of conflict

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science sociology
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the study of society bases on observations and soocial behavior
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Emperical evidence
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information we can verify with our senses
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Objectivity
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to allow the facts to speak for themselves
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Value relevent research
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topic that the researcher cares about
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value free research
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decication to finding the truth as it is rather than what we think it shoud be
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Interpretive sociology
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The study of sociology that focuses on the meaning that ppl attach to their social world

INTERPRETATE=HOW PPL SEE THINGS....how they attch meaings to thease things

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 who was Max welber?
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instermental in devloping interpretive sociology.
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Quantitative data
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numerical measurments
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Qualitative data
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reseachers accounts on how ppl understand their souroundings/world/society.
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Webers concept of verstehen
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what sociology is german word for understanding
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