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Test 4 Simmel and Freud
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
03/11/2013

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a priori
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Function or category of cognition that precedes, and is the basis or experience.
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Categories of mediation
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Social-cultural patterns of meaning through which individuals interpret experience
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Content
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Simmel's term for he nonorginizational elements of interaction as viewed by the investigator
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Cultural modernism
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An idealist and aesthetic response to modernization, that is, to the social division, rationalized socail forms, and instrumental, disenchanted orientations institutionalized by modern societies.
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Culture
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For Simmel, the synthesis of objective and subjective culture. Objective culture is the ideas, feelings, and so on of individuals that have been embodied in a n intersubjecivly understandable form, such as language or art. Subjective culture is the cultivation o he individual through interaction with objects external to the self-for example, reading a book or writing a paper.
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Form
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Simmel's term for the epidemiologically given framework that imposes coherence on the innumerable and various stimuli that constitute experiences.
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General Sociology
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The Doctrine that states that societies and cultures can be understood only as historically unique entities.
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Formal sociology
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one of three types of Simmelian sociology. Focuses on "pure" and fundamental forms of sociations.
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Philosophical sociology
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One of the three types of Simmelian sociology. Focuses on the construction and impact of social epistemology.
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Sociological apriorities
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he functions or categories of understanding that arises as a result of (1) the innate objective and subjective capacities of mind and (2) the human capacities for sanction. The sociological aproprieties are the basis for social experience.
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Symbolic form
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The formal characteristic of relations among people who use various kinds symbolic media as the basis for communicative interaction.
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Social types
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Types of individualism brought into being by forms and by sociological apriorities.
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Histography
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Principles or methodology of historical study.
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Historicism
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The doctrine that states that societies and cultures can be understood only as historically unique entities.
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Neo-Kantian
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A follower of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. At least three schools of neo-Kantianism were in existance in Germany at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Analysand
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A person undergoing analysis.
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Cathexis
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The investment of mental or libidinal energy in some external object or in some activity.
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Death instinct
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The impulse that drives the individual toward self-annihilation.
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Defense Mechanism
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A technique used by the ego that enables the individual to avoid criticism and embarrassment and to maintain poise or a favorable self-image.
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Depth Hermeneutics
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An interpretation of the meaning of human behavior and ideas that involves and analysis of the working so the unconscious mind.
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Determinism
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Metaphysical position that relates every event to preexisting events that denies the possibility of human choice and free will.
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Displacement
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The shifting of meaning, especially in a dream, that enables an event r an object to have a meaning that is unknown to a subject.
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Ego
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That agency of personality system that protects the individual's autonomy and is in direct touch with external reality.
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Eros
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The life instinct. The instinctual drive toward erotic and life-preserving behavior.
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Erotogenic zone
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An area of he body from which pleasure can be derived.
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Id
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That agency that comprises unconscious impulses and instinctual drives.
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Libido
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The energy that is created by the life instinct. Mental energy that is directed toward the fulfillment of erotic and life-preserving impulses.
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Narcissistic neurosis
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The withdrawal of libidinal attachments to the outside world and the reinvestment of emotion in the ego itself.
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Neurosis
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A functional disorder of the nervous system resulting in behavior that tends to be disorganized, repetitive, and apparently meaningless.
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Oedipus Complex
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The complex of attitudes and feelings that a child has at about the age of four or five that involves love for one parent and hatred or fear of the other.
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Polymorphous perversity
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A type of sexual orientation that is not focused solely, or even primarily, on genital sexuality. Typically found in very young infants and in very experienced adults.
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Primal horde
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The earliest type of community, dominated by patriarch with exclusive sexual privileges.
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Reaction formation
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A type of defense mechanism by which the individual denies the existence of a desire that cannot be implemented.
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Id
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That agency that comprises unconscious impulses and instinctual drives.
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Libido
Definition
The energy that is created by the life instinct. Mental energy that is directed toward the fulfillment of erotic and life-preserving impulses.
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Narcissistic neurosis
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The withdrawal of libidinal attachments to the outside world and the reinvestment of emotion in the ego itself.
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Neurosis
Definition
A functional disorder of the nervous system resulting in behavior that tends to be disorganized, repetitive, and apparently meaningless.
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Oedipus Complex
Definition
The complex of attitudes and feelings that a child has at about the age of four or five that involves love for one parent and hatred or fear of the other.
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Polymorphous perversity
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A type of sexual orientation that is not focused solely, or even primarily, on genital sexuality. Typically found in very young infants and in very experienced adults.
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Primal horde
Definition
The earliest type of community, dominated by patriarch with exclusive sexual privileges.
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Reaction formation
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A type of defense mechanism by which the individual denies the existence of a desire that cannot be implemented.
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Rationalization
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A type of defense mechanism by which the individual finds a justifiable excuse for doing something of which the superego might disapprove, or for doing something as a result of unconscious impulses.
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Reductionism
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The belief that phenomena should be describes and explained in terms of more elementary units of analysis.
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Regression
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The reverting of libido to a channel of expression that belongs to an earlier stage of individual's development.
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Repetition compulsion
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The tendency of an instinct to repeat over and over again the same kind of behavior.
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Super ego
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That agency of the personality systems that functions as a kind of conscience and that can cause feelings of guilt and anxiety with in the individual.
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Surplus repression
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The difference between socially necessary repression and the repression peculiar to unnecessarily repressive societies.
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Transference
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The development of an emotional attitude toward the psychoanalyst as the psychoanalyst replaces some crucial figure in the analysands past experience.
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