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- Sociology
- the systematic study of human society
- Sociological Perspective
- the special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people
- high-income countries
- the nations with the highest overall standards of living
- middle income countries
- nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole
- low income countries
- nations with low standard of living in which most people are poor
- The Sociological Perspective reveals the power of society to shape individual lives.
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- C. Wright Mills called this point of view the "sociological imagination," which transforms personal troubles into public issues.
- Being an outsider or experiencing social crisis can encourage the sociological perspective. - Applying the sociological perspective has many benefits:
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- helping us understand the barriers and opportunities in our lives
- giving us an advantage in our careers
- guilding public policy - Global Awareness is an important part of the sociological perspective because...
- our society is place in the world affects us all
- positivism
- the scientific approach to knowledge based on "psoitive" facts as opposed to more speculation
- theory
- a statement of how and why specific facts are related
- theoretical approach
- a basic image of society that guides thinking and research
- structural-functional approach
- a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
- social structure
- any relatively stable pattern of social behavior
- social functions
- the consequences of a social pattern for the operation of society as a whole
- manifest functions
- the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern
- latent functions
- the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
- social dysfunction
- any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society
- gender conflict approach
- a point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between women and men
- feminism
- support of social equality for women and men
- race conflict approach
- a point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between people of different racial and ethnic categories
- macro level orientation
- a broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole
- micro level orientation
- close up focus on social interaction in specific situations
- symbolic interaction approach
- a framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals
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Macro Level:
Structural- Functional Approach
Social-Conflict Approach -
Structural-Functional Approach - explores how social structures work together to help society operate
- Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer helped develop the structural-functional approach
Social Conflict Approach shows how inequality creates conflict and causes change.
- Two important types of conflict analysis are the gender conflict approach, linked to feminism, and race conflict approach.
- Karl Marx, helped deelop the social-conflict approach
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Micro Level:
Symbolic interaction approach -
symbolic studies how people, in everyday interaction, construct reality
- Max Weber and George Herbert Mead helped develop the symbolic interaction approach