Sociology ch 1 vocab - Summary You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking like a Sociologist PDF

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Chapter 1 vocab from the book, most of it was not in letcures, but on the test. ...

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Anomie - a sense of aimlessness r despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable Positivist Sociology - a strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships Double Consciousness - a concept to describe the two behavior scripts one for moving through the world and the other incorporation the external opinions of prejudiced • Looking at yourself through the eyes of other people and behaving different

Functionalism - way to analyze society was to identify the roles that different aspects or phenomena play • From Organicism that said everyone has a role to play Conflict Theory - the idea that conflict between competing interest is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general Symbolic Interactionism - a micro-level theory in which share meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions Postmodernism - a condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche and multiple perhaps even conflicting identities resulting from disjointed affiliations Social Construction - an entity that exists because people behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuation as people and society -widely and formally agreed upon...