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Sociological Imagination - ✔✔we need to imagine the world with other
cutlures, peoples, ideas; take others point of view
Father of Sociology - ✔✔Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Three major perspectives - ✔✔structural/functionalism, conflict,
symbolic interactionism
Micro perspective - ✔✔symbolic interactionism
macro perspectives - ✔✔structural/functionalism, conflict
who developed conflict theory? - ✔✔Karl Marx (1818-1883)
,who developed symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔George Herbert Mead
(1863-1931)
Who developed general theory of action? - ✔✔Parsons (1902-1970)
who created the idea of bureaucracies? - ✔✔Weber
What is an institution? - ✔✔A stable cluster of social structures
meeting basic needs of a group of people
what was the first institution? - ✔✔family
latent functions according to Merton? - ✔✔underlying/subjective
functions
manifest functions according to Merton? - ✔✔free-value purpose
what is operalization? - ✔✔defining what you mean, how're you
actually gonna measure what you want to?
what is a theory? - ✔✔A theory is a statement that has not been tested
What is a hypothesis? - ✔✔a testable prediction
, what is reliability? - ✔✔consistency of measurement
what is validity? - ✔✔measuring what you intend to measure
what is culture? - ✔✔the total way of life of a people
components of culture - ✔✔artifacts, symbols, norms, values
what value did Lasch suggest was becoming more prominent? -
✔✔narcissism
what american values does Robert Williams list? - ✔✔achievement,
work, efficiency, material comfort, moral obligation, humanitarianism,
equality, freedom, democracy, conformity, individualism
sapir-wharf hypothesis - ✔✔lingustic relativity hypothesis; if we look at
the language of the people, we can learn how they view the world.
what is a taboo? - ✔✔extremely important moral laws
what is an artifact? - ✔✔an object made or used by people in the past