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Sociology 101 Test #1
definitions...obviously
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
09/17/2009

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Term
Sociological Imagination
Definition

Human behavior in terms of

social structure,

history, and biography

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Three Great Revolutions
Definition
Political, Scientific, Industrial
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The Enlightenment
Definition

Core idea: REASON

Results in a revolution

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Philosophes
Definition

People in Enlightenment

that told others they

have the same capacity

for reason as all others

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Core Idea of Reason
Definition

Undid all of social structures in Europe

1) Liberty

2) Equality

3) Fraternity

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Modern Societies
Definition

1) Urban

2) Industrial

3) Bureaucratic

4) Pluralistic

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Urban
Definition
Determines the social structure of family (living space, cost, etc)
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C. Wright Mills
Definition
Sociological Imagination
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Thomas Malthus
Definition

Economics - said a society's

population is always self correcting

(starvation, death)

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Social Science
Definition

Scientific method taken & applied to

human social life

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