Introduction to Sociology Edition 1.0 6th March 2006 From Wikibooks‚ the open-content textbooks collection Note: current version of this book can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology 2 Contents INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY.........................................................................1 AUTHORS...............................................................................................................6 INTRODUCTION..................................
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Racism has been around for a long time. Dating back to the 17th century and continuing on through the 1960’s‚ and even into today. It has been a major issue since the colonial and slave era has existed. There were many rules regarding whom could be citizens‚ who could vote‚ and who could do what and where. Slavery may have been one of racisms biggest forms but that does not stop it from continuing on today. Far too often people are stereotyped by their skin color‚ or how they dress and choose to
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Modernization is the process in which social and economic change is obtained through industrial revolution‚ urbanization and other social changes that alters people’s lives. Modernization promotes individualism over the unity of traditional communities and encourages rationality over traditional philosophies. Modernization can have both positive and negative effects on society and can often bring about controversy. The German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1937) formed the theory of Gemeinschaft
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1a. Define routinization: • Routinization is the way people go about doing something. It’s a method to organize chaos and when practiced it accomplishes the goal quickly and effectively. There are different methods used‚ but ultimately routinization produces the desired result. 1b. Strategies in the ER: • In the essay by Chambliss’ essay‚ “Just Another Routine Emergency”‚ we learn of the best strategies that are used in the ER’s across the USA to routinize chaos. One of the main strategies
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Ethnicity Ethnicity Intelligence: controversial (racist?) notions (Eysenck‚ Jensen‚ Hernstein & Murray) Outside school factors: material deprivation; social class background; gender; street culture (Sewell); high number of single parent‚ female-headed families Inside school factors: institutional & cultural racism (Coard‚ Gilborn); setting & streaming (Gilborn & Youdell); language (Labov‚ Mac an Ghaill); self-motivation of girls (Fuller‚
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SOC‚ 2nd Edition by Niki Benokraitis Study Worksheet – Chapter 1 Answer Key Thinking Like a Sociologist Matching Match the person or term with the appropriate description in the table below. |Max Weber |E |Macrosociology |I |Symbolic Interactionism |M | |Karl Marx |D |W.E.B. DuBois |G |Conflict Theory |K | |Empirical
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Stephanie SS 105 November 2012 Essay: Civil-Rights Movement The time period in which many African Americans endured crucial discipline and segregation was known as the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place during the 1950s and 1960s. African Americans were brave during this time period; they decided that enough was enough and that change needed to be implemented. The Civil Rights Movement challenged aspects of the tri-partite system of dominations in many ways. One
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Assess the contribution of functionalism to an understanding of families and households. (24 marks) Functionalists believe that society is based on a shared value consensus‚ this is a set of shared norms and values into which society socialises its members‚ This enables society to work harmoniously and meet society’s needs and goals. Functionalists believe that the family is regarded as a basic building block of society. According to Parsons the family provides two important functions. The first
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Violence has been a part of ice hockey since at least the early 1900s. According to the book Hockey: A People’s History‚ in 1904 alone‚ four players were killed during hockey games from the frequent brawls and violent stick work. Fighting in ice hockey is an established tradition of the sport in North America‚ with a long history involving many levels of amateur and professional play and including some notable individual fights. While officials tolerate fighting during hockey games‚ they impose a
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an effort to thoroughly evaluate the statement of problem‚ “the extent to which labels or stigmas negatively impacts on juvenile behavior in High Schools in Malvern”‚ the Internal Assessment will be encompassing three major objectives. These are (1) To determine what motivates students to commit acts of deviance in schools (juveniles). (2) To observe if deviant acts are committed only by persons of a particular‚ gender‚ age category‚ and social class etc. (3) The extent to which the family unit can
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