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Sociology Exam 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
10/11/2009

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The social structure consists of how many institutions
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5
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what are the five institutions of the social structure
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marriage and family, economy, education, government, religion
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Society is what?
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The hardware (tangible)
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Culture is what?
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The software.
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Who founded the sociological imagination
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C. Wright Mills
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Who founded settlement houses
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Jane Adams
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Who are the pillars of sociology
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Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber
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What are the two major antecedents of Sociology
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The enlightment and the industrial revolution
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What was the significance of the enlightment
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foundation of science
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Who coined the term sociology
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August Comte
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What was the first antecedent?
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the enlightment
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what was the second antecedent
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The industrial revolution
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What was the significance of the industrial revolution
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changed all the norms
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What was Durkheims discovery
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Anomie- prevasive sense of root lessness and normless ness.
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Anomic Suicides
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Result of anomie, feeling completely alienated
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What was Marx discovery
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Alienation- estrangement from the good, seperation, sin. was made a prerequisite of daily life.
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People were alienated from what aspects of labor?
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1. Mental and Physical labor.
2. Process of labor.
3. product of one's labor
4. use value and exchange value
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The industrial revolution led to what?
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Mass standardization (McDonalds)
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What are the three major theories in sociology
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Structural-Functionalism, Conflict theory, and symbolic interaction theory
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What is structural-functionalism
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views society as an organism, how does it function?
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Conflict Theory
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Marx, The points of stress and conflict in society and the ways in which they contribute to social change. competition, structural inequality, social change.
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What is symbolic interaction theory
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the meaning of human acts, the process through which people come to communicate shared meanings.
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What is the survey
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collection of data from a controlled group
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what is the experiment
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the manipulation of independent variables to test theories of cause and effect
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what is documentary research
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study of documents such as police records and how they correlate
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what is unobtrusive research
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ex. garbage raids.
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step one of the research process
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select a topic
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step two of the research process
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state the problem
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step three of the research process
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literature review
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step four of the research process
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choose a research method
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step five of the research process
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gather data
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step six of the research process
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analyze data
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step seven of the research process
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publish data
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what is etemology
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the study of word origins
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what are the two views of culture
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Humanist, arnoldian.
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what is ideological legitimation
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social evolutionism
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What is culture
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our adaptation to the environment
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what do all cultures do
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enable and constrain, liberate and oppress, the individuals operation within them.
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Culture is public and shared by people as members of society
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culture is inherently collective matter
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culture is created by people and it creates people in turn
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culture is our species adaptation to the environment
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culture is transmitted from generation to generation and is learned
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not genetic, culture supplants instinct
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culture involves adaptation to environment
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all societies themselves are adaptations
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cultures and societies are constantly changing
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cultures are open ended
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cultures constitute coherent whole's
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amish vs. mass consumerism
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