Sociological Perspective: the process of understanding and explaining how individuals and groups interact within society
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Social Structures: the distinctive and stable arrangements of social patterns that form the society as a whole
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Social Problems: societal conditions that harm segments of society
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Sociological imagination: the ability to see the details of our won lives in the context of larger social structures as opposed to merely personal choices or personal troubles
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Social Change: the forces that change society\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s organization and social structures
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Sociological theory: a set of interrelated ideas that provide a systematic understanding of the social world.
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Macro sociology: a level of analysis focusing on social systems and populations on a large scale
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Micro sociology: a level of analysis focusing on individuals and small groups within the larger social system.
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Proletariat: the poor, property-less industrial working class
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Bourgeois: the small minority who were the wealthy class
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Conflict theory: a sociological perspective emphasizing the role of political and economic power and oppression as contributing to the existing order
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Functionalist Theory: a macro view of how parts of society serve to maintain stability
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Manifest Functions: intentional and formally sanctioned functions of social institutions and society
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Latent Functions: unintentional and informally sanctioned functions of social institutions and society
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Dysfunction: the undesirable disruptions of social patterns resulting in negative consequences within society
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Socialized self: the self cannot develop apart from society – you are who you are due to your social interactions and environment
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Symbolic interaction: a micro view of how society is the product of interactions between people
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People:
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– German Karl Marx (vineyard)
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– Emile Durkheim (village)
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– George Herbert Mead (meadow)
– Max Weber
Social Facts
Feminist Theory