Hunter Porterfield Sociology Chapter 1 summary Sociology is the study of the society and the way people interact within it. The field of sociology and trying to study and understand it is very complicating due to the fact that it is such a wide topic. Feelings change along people and nobody can truly explain why people do the things they do. A student attempting suicide out of nowhere is unexplainable or even a random divorce. The unexplainable minds of people and random occurrences really interests
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interactions in order to explain society as a whole. These major sociological perspectives can be compared in the sense that conflict perspective and functionalist perspective are mainly macro sociological and deal with the dynamics of whole societies. Macrosociology concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations; while interactionist perspective does not make an assumption when compared to the other two perspectives. Sociologist make use of these major theoretical perspectives because each
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1. Culture a. The totality of learned‚ socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior. 2. Society a. People when live in the same territory‚ independent of people outside their area‚ and participate in a common culture. 3. Ethnocentrism a. Refer to the tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. b. William graham sumner 4. Subculture a. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of customs‚
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are the functionalist‚ conflict‚ and interactionist perspectives. The functionalist perspective emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability (Schaefer 13). Functionalism uses the macro-level approach. Macrosociology concentrates on large-scale phenomena‚ or entire civilizations (Schaefer 13). The functionalist approach holds that if an aspect of social life doesn’t contribute to a society’s stability‚ it will not be passed on from one generation to the next
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IowaSocialization and the Construction of Reality * 55 Questions. (plenty of time). * Chapters 1-4 Conley‚ Chapters 1-3 Leicht‚ your two discussion section readings so far (Lovaglia & Ritzer) + lecture notes. * NO Friday quiz this week. * NO NEW READING ASSIGNMENT THIS WEEK Socialization: The Concept * Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the values‚ beliefs‚ and norms of a given society and learn to function as a member of that society. Theories
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The major theoretical perspectives; functionalist‚ conflict‚ and interactionist perspectives are the three most popular viewpoints used among sociologists. Functionalists regard that the many different sectors of a community makes a society progressive because each part plays some type of role that contributes to the society as a whole. But what happens if one group or part does not aid a society and has very little worth? German sociologist‚ Niklas Luhmann‚ claims that eventually it will disappear
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assumptions about how society works that are contained within each perspective. In other words‚ considering the starting point of each perspective‚ what do they seek to reveal? Response: the way in Macrosociology and microsociology differ are that they deal with different societal issues for example Macrosociology deals with issues of bigger groups that affect effect the whole such as health care‚ war‚ and the economy and microsociology is looking more at the small everyday interactions with individuals
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sociological perspectives are most linked to macrosociology? A. symbolic interactionism and functionalism B. functionalism and the conflict perspective C. the conflict perspective and symbolic interactionism D. symbolic interactionism and feminism Question 2 of 25 1.0 Points Which of the following perspectives is most appropriate for a research sociologist to use A. microsociology B. macrosociology C. neither macro nor microsociology
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face-to-face interactions in small groups and it focuses on the microsociology analysis. The Functionalism perspective focuses on the way everything and everyone in a society it is structured to maintain stable. This perspective works with the macrosociology analysis. For last‚
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(Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology. 9th ed. Nolan‚ Lenski‚ p. 15) To begin examining the origin of the use of symbols as a form of communication‚ one must look back in history almost 6000 years. Limestone tablets dated back to 3500 B.C. were found to bear some of the oldest known writing. On each tablet are symbols for head‚ hand‚ foot‚ threshing sledge‚ and several numerals. (Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology. 9th ed. Patrick Nolan‚ Gerhard Lenski
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