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23 Cards in this Set
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social marginality
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being excluded from mainstream reality
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global village
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a closely knit community of all the world's societies
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economic globaliation
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the interrelationship among the world's economies
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outsourcing
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the practice of producing inexpensive products by building factories and hiring workers abroad
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hypothesis
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tentative statement of how various events are related to one another
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theory
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set of logically related hypotheses that explains the relationship among various phenomena
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social forces
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forces that arise from the society of which we are a part
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sociological imagination
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the ability to see the impact of social forces on individuals, especially their private lives (C. Wright Mills 1959)
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social integration
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the degree to which people are tied to a social group (link to suicide)
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class conflict
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the struggle between the capitalists, who own the means of production, and the proletariat, who do not. Marx.
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Verstehen
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empathetic understanding of the subject; Weber though all sociologists should adopt it
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functionalist perspective
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each part of society (the family, the school, the eonomy, the state) performs certain functions for the society as a whole)
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social consensus
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a condition in which most members of society agree upon what would be good for everyone and cooperate to achieve it.
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What functionalists think holds society together
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social consensus
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mechanical solidarity
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a type of social cohesion that develops when people do similar work and have similar beliefs and values
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organic solidarity
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a type of social cohesion that arises when the people in a society perform a wide variety of specialized jobs and therefore have to depend on one another
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manifest functions
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functions that are intended and seem obvious
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latent functions
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functions that are unintended and often unrecognicized (going to college)
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conflict perspective
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portrays society as always changing and marked by conflict
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feminist theory
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form of conflict theory that explains human life in terms of the experiences of women
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patriarchy
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a system of domination in which men exercise power over women
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symbolic interationist perspective
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directs our attention to the details of a specific situation and the interaction between individuals in that situation
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major sociological perspectives
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1. Functionalist (social order or stability)
2. Conflict (social conflict or change) 3. Symbolic interactionist (interaction between individuals) |
