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1) disturb the ordinary in some way
2) frustrate attempts to normalize situation
3) see how they react |
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| What is the peculiar and distinctive characteristic of interaction according to Blumer's assessment of human behavior? |
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| people try to interpret other's meanings, instead of responding based on action |
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| What is interactionism's enduring truth and how was it first stated in the Thomas Theorem (SFP reading)? |
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symbolic meanings (ie expections, interpretations, assumptions) tend to be self confirmed.
-these meanings and assumptions create tunnel vision as people "take an attitude"
-people act on their expectations, interpretations, and assumptions |
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| What are criticisms of symbolic interaction theory |
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1) it exaggerates construction/freedom
2) it underestimates the power of structured interactions
3) it focuses more on what can be, than what is |
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| Describe the findings between religion and delinquency |
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| church attendance isn't a large part in determining delinquency, but if the subject's friends and peers attend church, is. |
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| Describe ascending fellowship |
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| What is mutual criticism? |
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| every member is required to seek feedback from community, road blocks to perfection are addressed. |
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| Reasons for Oneida's failure |
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| community got too big, and eventually collapsed |
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| What are the six causal variables in identity theory |
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1) when role performance improves
2) when the scope of the role broadens
3) when the role becomes more highly evaluated by others
4) when the role performance becomes more visible
5) When the role performance requires greater sacrifice
6) When the role performance requires greater investment |
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| What does Goffman mean by "mask"? |
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| we put up a front or barrier and only show other what we want them to see |
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| What are symbolic interactionism's three models of self? |
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1) Looking glass self (passive)- individual comes to see self symbolically as the mirror reflection of others judgements
2) Dialectical self (reactive)- takes attitudes of others and finds freedom through language
3) Staged Self (manipulative)- we hide from others behind a mask |
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| What are the implications of the word game we played in class? |
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| sometimes we get so distracted by looking at one thing, we completely miss other contributing factors. |
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| What is the Et Cetera Principle? |
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| we fill in the blanks when things don make sense. |
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| everything makes sense in proper context, we create a context to make sense out of our actions |
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| What is Ethnomethodology? |
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| common, everyday techniques people use to construct a factual, orderly world |
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| How do we experiment with ethnomethodology? |
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| By performing breaching experiments |
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| What are the levels of discovery in participant observation? |
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Tourist- new comer (general info given), provisional relationship (seek more info about outsider)
Insider-categoralical relationship (tell outsider about others in group), personal relationship (treat outsider like insider) |
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| Merton's views of the SFP |
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expectation of an event, can make it happen.
-beliefs create prophecy
-we act on our expectations |
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| Name some of the major concepts/examples of SFP from class |
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Galatea Effect- expectation from within
Pygmalion Effect- expectation from society |
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| What are the three models of of socialization? |
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1) Vulnerable Child- children are sensitive beings, early experiences shape personality.
2) Conditioned Child- children are waiting to be shaped
3) Active Child- children play active role in creating self |
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| How does the third model of socialization differ from the other two? |
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| The first two models are passive, the child doesnt play an active role in defining who they are or what they want. |
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| What is symbolic interactionism? |
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1) humans act towards things on the basis of meanings
2) meanings are modified through an interpretive process
3) interpretations are influenced by social interactions |
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| What is the sociological explanation of persecution? |
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| Hutterites persecuted for ruining local businesses by not purchasing from them. |
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| Who runs away in the Hutterite community and why? |
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| boys, it's their last chance to leave the community before they get married. Women have intuition that makes the stay there. |
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| List some of the the Hutterite practices and characteristics |
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| community of goods, board of directors (minister, steward and farm foreman), division after 150ppl |
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| What is relative deprivation? |
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| people compare their lot with others like them |
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| How did different officers and men view military life in the American Soldier? |
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| their attitude changed depending on how their good/bad their peer's lives were. |
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| List some of Durkheim's findings on suicide |
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1) personal stress promotes suicide
2) social integration reduces suicide by providing social support in time of stress
3) un married people have greater social integration than unmarried people
4) married people have lower suicide rates than unmarried |
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| What is the law of formalization? |
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| When there is over 150 people, communities start to break away and relationships are lost. |
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| What are Homan's view on discovery? How does it differ from explanation? |
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discovery: "are things connected?" - relationships
explanation: showing how specific relationships logically follow from a set of more general statements- how and why things happen |
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| What is the difference between a positive and negative relationship? |
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positive: when both variables go in the same direction
negative: when the variables go in opposite directions |
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general: an attempt to make sense of the world
scientific: a set of general statements in which specific empirical relationships can be derived |
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| What constitutes as a good theoretical statement? |
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| a sentence like assertion consisting of two parts: a relationship, and a condition |
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| In ethnomethodology, what are accounts? |
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| announcing the meanings of a situation to others |
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