SOC 1010 study guide
SOC 1010 Exam 1:
CHAPTER 1:
The Sociological Perspective:
The sociological perspective deals with people and their surroundings it’s a personal aspect of people and how they develop, how personalities shape and become based on what they are around.
The sociological perspective predicts behavior by
Life Chance: is the degree to which people succeed in life in areas such as education, income and health.
Social Environment: social backgrounds and other aspects of society.
Sociology: the study of social behavior and social institutions.
Society: group of people who live within a defended territory and share a culture.
Sociology and Science:
Sociology is considered a science because no matter how much a sociologist can predictions, people have their own minds. It also relies on systematic research that follow the standard rules of scientific method.
Sociological imagination is refers to the ability to appreciate the structural basis for individual problems. (Personal troubles are rooted in public issues.)
The difference between blaming the victim and blaming the system approach is blaming the victim is the belief that people experiencing difficulties are to blame for these problems and blaming the system is the belief that personal difficulties stem from the problems in society.
We know what we know because personal experience, common sense, the media, expert authorities, and tradition.
The Debunking motif is a theme of sociology which the aim is to go beyond superficial understandings of social reality.
The debate in sociology regarding the social reform is the need to focus on the structural and cultural factors and various problems in the social environment that help explain both social issues and private troubles. The most recent debate is over public sociology.
Generalization: a general statement regarding a trend between various dimensions of our lives.
Laws: statement of physical process for which no exceptions are possible.
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CHAPTER 1:
The Sociological Perspective:
The sociological perspective deals with people and their surroundings it’s a personal aspect of people and how they develop, how personalities shape and become based on what they are around.
The sociological perspective predicts behavior by
Life Chance: is the degree to which people succeed in life in areas such as education, income and health.
Social Environment: social backgrounds and other aspects of society.
Sociology: the study of social behavior and social institutions.
Society: group of people who live within a defended territory and share a culture.
Sociology and Science:
Sociology is considered a science because no matter how much a sociologist can predictions, people have their own minds. It also relies on systematic research that follow the standard rules of scientific method.
Sociological imagination is refers to the ability to appreciate the structural basis for individual problems. (Personal troubles are rooted in public issues.)
The difference between blaming the victim and blaming the system approach is blaming the victim is the belief that people experiencing difficulties are to blame for these problems and blaming the system is the belief that personal difficulties stem from the problems in society.
We know what we know because personal experience, common sense, the media, expert authorities, and tradition.
The Debunking motif is a theme of sociology which the aim is to go beyond superficial understandings of social reality.
The debate in sociology regarding the social reform is the need to focus on the structural and cultural factors and various problems in the social environment that help explain both social issues and private troubles. The most recent debate is over public sociology.
Generalization: a general statement regarding a trend between various dimensions of our lives.
Laws: statement of physical process for which no exceptions are possible.
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