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Sociology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| C wright mills | Wrote sociological imagination and believed to see how a person was functioning you had to look at society and to see hwo society was functioning you had to look at people |
| Karl Marx | Conflict theory, psoitivism, believes sociology could be reduced to a fomrula, wrote capital, alienation |
| Alienation | Marx’s theory of that aworker with not being invlovled enough or not understanding what they are doing in the process of something being made will cause them to be alienated form themelsves, other workers, ad th final product of production |
| Max Weber | Anti postiivism, beehives to understand people in a deep way you have to ask questions, he is focused on microanalysis so more the person than the whole society. Wrote prosestant ethnic and the spirit of capitilism |
| Jane adams | Won noble peace prize for assistaning the under privileged, most famously the hull house, believes we cannot just talk about ideas we have to actually execute the believes in sociological. Pragmatism |
| Week dubious | NAACP, talked about th color line, wrote the souls of black folk, Philadelphia nergo, and black reconsturction |
| Durkeinheim | Functionalist, first to establish sociology as a discipline, wrote rules of sociological method, suicidem and division of labor in society, she looked at stable vs sick societies a lot, anime is when you believe norms change basically |
| Organic vs mechanical solidarity | Mechanical rshe’s from similrties between community members, organic is based on their interdependent nature |
| Martineua | Devolved early sociological methods, and popularized it a lot of her work was centered on feminism she believed women were being treated almost like slaves so she wanted t change it so she studied it |
| constructivism | an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be |
| dynamic equilibrium | a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly |
| Figuration | the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior |
| generalized others | the organized and generalized attitude of a social group |
| Function | the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity |
| paradigms | philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them |
| reification | an error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence |
| social solidarity | the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion |
| social facts | the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life |
| verstehen | A German word means to understand deeply |
| ethnography | observing a complete social setting and all that it entails |
| Hawthorne effect | when study subjects behave in a certain manner due to their awareness of being observed by a researcher |
| interpretive framework | sociological research approach that seeks in-depth understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is not based on hypothesis testing |
| literature review | scholarly research step that entails identifying and studying all existing studies on a topic to create a basis for new research |
| operational definitions | specific explanations of abstract concepts that a researcher plans to study |
| participant observation | when a researcher immerses herself in a group or social setting in order to make observations from an “insider” perspective |
| folkways | direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture |
| ethnocentrism | the practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one’s own culture |
| diffusion | the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another |
| mores | the moral views and principles of a group |
| Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | the way that people understand the world based on their form of language |
| xenocentrism | a belief that another culture is superior to one’s own |
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