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| A process by which an individual learns to get along in their society |
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| The sort of socialization that everybody gets |
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| The more specific kind of socialization (for example, medical school) |
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| The self is a unique combination of traits, behavior, and values |
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| According to C. H Coolie, we see ourselves as others see us. |
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| The unsocialized, selfish, response driven part of G. H. Mead's concept of the person. He "plays." |
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| The socialized, mature part of G. H. Mead's concept of the person. He "games" |
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| Running around, not caring how others perceive you. Is not intelligible to others. Part of the "I" |
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| Play that is intelligible to others. Has commonly understood rules. Part of the "Me" |
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| A named position in a hierarchy |
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| Expectations for a certain status |
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| When different roles interfere with each other |
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| Individuals who interact on a regular basis |
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| A group of people linked together by kinship, the adults of which care for the children |
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| A connection you have through marriage or line of descent |
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| A SOCIALLY RECOGNIZED sexual union |
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| The family one is born into |
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| The family you make with your spouse |
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-Operates with the concept of consumerism
-Says that while we are single, we are constantly looking for a spouse
-In this country, we have an informal one. |
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| Marriage partners need to feel like they're contributing comparable assets to the relationship |
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| The tendency we all have to marry someone who is like us in terms of social demographics |
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| Collins' definition of "family" |
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-a set of debts you owe people
-a set of property |
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| Something you have legal access to |
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| Collins' three sorts of property |
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| Generational, Household, and Erotic |
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| The material things that you own |
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| Sexual access (usually between spouses) |
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| Durkheim's definition of "religion" |
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| A set of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things that unite believers into a single moral community called a church. |
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| The two realms of religion |
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| The sacred and the profane |
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| Things that inspire awe; things set apart and forbidden |
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| No distinction between the spiritual and the physical world |
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| Spirits live in the natural world and have influence over our lives |
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| God or the gods are separate from the physical world. Can be polytheism or monotheism |
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| An ethical system devoid of any deity |
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| Something non-religious that still provides the things that religion provides (society, explanations, etc) for its followers |
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| The worship of the self in Western cultures in which "choice" is untrumpable |
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| The man who devised Sheilaism and says that we have found other ways to meet the needs that religion once met. |
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| The man who said that a religious group can range from a church to a sect. |
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| A religious group that is well-integrated into society and cooperates with other agencies |
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| A religious group that sees themselves as separate from the rest of society |
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| A new religious group. Some of these end up on the church-sect continuum. |
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| The world moves more and more out of religious control. People are allowed to live outside of the church's teachings if they so choose |
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| The reaction against secularization. A proclamation of re-claimed authority by a religious tradition over society |
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| A compulsory political association with continuous organization whose administrative staff successfully claims the monopoly of violence in the enforcement of its orders |
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| A state is supreme within its boarders. Only the state can say that it is wrong. |
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| An imagined community for which the members fight, die and kill for. |
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| Grants people more rights than simply being a subject of the state. They have rights, entitlements, and a say in the affairs of the state. |
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| T H Marshall's progression for rights |
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| The ability to carry out your will over others |
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| Power is narrowly distributed. Small groups have disproportionate power. |
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| Power is very widely distributed. Some people may have a little more than others. |
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| Collective behavior approach |
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| In a social movement, directs the emotion and gets everyone involved. |
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| Resource mobilization approach |
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| In a social movement, deals with the "nuts and bolts" issues. |
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| What three things are needed for a successful social movement? |
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| A grievance, a sense of empowerment, and a crisis moment |
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| Some sort of long-standing inequality |
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| Believing that your social movement can be successful |
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| Some sort of event that can act as a call to action. Ex: when Rosa Parks got kicked off of the bus for not giving her seat up to a white man. Uses social networks. |
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| The two questions about the different understandings of the human person |
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1) What is the nature of the human animal?
2) Under what conditions might that animal thrive? |
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| The capacity for collective action (social glue) |
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| Capacity for collective action flows from how similar we are. |
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| Based on what we don't have in common. Has a division of labor and specialization. |
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| Durkheim's moral education |
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| The deepest moral truths within you are not really yours. |
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| Durkheim's views on suicide |
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| It is a function of social integration |
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| When someone lacks the social networks to get through a tough time. |
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| When someone kills them self for the good of others |
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| Durkheim's view on the nature of man |
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| How would the human animal thrive in Durkheim's opinion? |
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| In the right balance of social order and individual freedom |
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| Something hold the same meaning to everyone everywhere (incest taboo, kissing, dance, trade) |
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| Homans' propositions end in? |
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| Distributive justice (Everyone is happy with the exchange) |
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| Homans' 1st proposition: the success proposition |
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| You are more likely to engage in an action if there is reasonable expectation of reward. |
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| Homans' 2nd proposition: the stimulus proposition |
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| We learn to recognize a certain pattern of circumstances and act accordingly. |
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| Homans' 3rd proposition: the value proposition |
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| The more you want the reward, the more likely you are to engage in the action. A=p(V) |
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| Action = the probability of getting the reward * the value of the reward. |
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| Homans' 4th proposition: the deprivation-satiation proposition |
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| Based on the law of diminishing returns. If you are deprived, you want it more. If you have plenty, you don't want it so much. |
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| Homans' 5th proposition: the aggression-approval proposition |
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| When the reward you thought you would get is not forthcoming, you turn something else into a reward |
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| Homans' view on the nature of the human animal |
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| Everything is based on exchange |
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| How would the human animal thrive in Homans' opinion? |
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| When we have lots of exchange networks |
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| Marx's view on the nature of the human animal |
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| How would the human animal thrive in Marx's opinion? |
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| When we have what we need and find our work fulfilling |
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| The people who own the means of production |
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| The people who own only their own labor, which they sell for a basic wage. |
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| Rational choice school of thought |
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| People's values being what they are, people will act rationally- that is, they will seek to maximize gain and minimize cost. |
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| Components of Parson's voluntaristic theory of action |
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| The goals, the means, and the actor |
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| Socially acceptable means |
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| Accepting both the goals and the means |
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| Accepting the goals but rejecting the means |
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| Rejecting the goals but accepting the means |
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| Rejecting both the the goals and the means |
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| What does Smith mean when he says that we are moral? |
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| We do not always act morally, but instead we use the language of right and wrong to describe our actions |
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| There is a definite set of morals for each institution. |
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| Ideas of where right and wrong come from in story form |
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| Human social interactions require interpretation because they are symbolic... the same act can mean different things in different contexts or with different actors |
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| A basic description of what is going on |
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| Psychological level of interpretation |
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| What the actors think they are doing. |
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| Social level of interpretation |
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| Deepest level of understanding. How do structures and organization treat this event? |
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| Dramaturgical school (Goffman) |
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| Says that all the world is a stage and we are merely players |
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| Front stage is what you want your audience to see but back stage is the part you don't want them to see because that could destroy the image you are trying to create |
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| We use these to sell certain images. They can be miss-used. |
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