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Guts of socilology
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/26/2006

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Term

9

Social Structure, Social Organization, Context, Environment

Definition
Population, Aggregation, Social Class, Group, Family, Community, Association, Network, Society
Term
POPULATION
Definition

CATEGORY OF INDIVIDUALS, IDENTIFIED ON THE BASIS OF 1 OR MORE COMMON CHARICTERISTICS

(If we can identify the charistics of Population we can identify effect it has on everything.

Sub Areas:

Demongraphy: keeping track of gender, race, ethnicity, culture

Collegy

Term

AGGREGATION

Definition

 

EX. MOB, AUDIENCES, CROWDS

Loose their individuality

3 major charicteristics

Minimally Order(there is a task leader, social           emotion leaders)

Temporary in Duration (dont last long)

Spontaneous in Orgin (mods - not expect it)

Ex. Lynching (go along w/crowd)

Fire in movie theater

Fight @ Soccar Game in Europe

Term
Social Class
Definition

Loosly ordered, unified SO that is held together on basis of: Power, Prestiage, Priviledge

 

Ex. Republican & Democrates

Term

Power

(Social Class)

Definition

Ability to get your own way against resistance & resources

POWER RESIDES WITHIN CONTEXT

resides in interaction

(Sociological Term)

ex. need 10 30 page papers

Term

Prestiage

(Social Class)

Definition

How people look @ you, your rank in life

Term

Privilege

(Social Class)

Definition

General called 3 things:

Money, Education, Occupation

Term

Complimentary Role Relationships

based on 4 concepts

(Key terms when talking Sociology)

Definition

ROLE, POSITION, STATUS, NORM

ex. Teacher, Student

if there is no followere they dont exist

Term

Group

 

Definition
Is a SO whos members know & identify w/ea other personally as individuals thru interaction.
Term

Primary Group

(Groups)

Definition
  1. Response to whole person
  2. Communication is deep & extensive
  3. You are always trying to make other person happy.

Controls you

Ex. You fall in love w/someone or Family

Term

Secondary

(Group)

Definition

Group in which I call on somebody & for a moment we are talking.

You have no clue who I am.

Term
Family
Definition

Ties of Kinship among its members

 

Ex. Husband & wife, develop friends who becomes family

Term
Associations
Definition
More or less purposefull created for the attainment of relatively specific & ltd goals.
Term
Networks
Definition

Ties together other SO (other 9 contexts) thru common set of activities

 

Networks are the social glue 

Ex. Tuna

Once network fails everything fails.

Term
Society
Definition

Society is broadly inclusive SO that possess both functional & Society

 

Most Powerful of SO

Term
Community
Definition
A SO that is territorial localized thru which its members satisfy most of their daily needs & take care of most of their common problems.
Term

Static

(family)

Definition
Not  changing
Term

Process

(Family)

Definition
Change
Term
Society
Definition

is broadly inclusive SO that possesses both functional cultural altonomy and dominates all other forms of SO.

 

Most powerful SO

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