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Sociology Definition?
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Systemic study of human society
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Sociological Perspective Definition
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Understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context
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Sociologcal imagination stuff?
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"enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography"
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C. Wright Mills
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"Sociological Imagination is a tool to study our world"-The point of Sociology is to understand the relationship between individuals and the society in which they live
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Private Troubles
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Occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others
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Public Issues
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Have to do with matters that transcend the local environments of the individual they have to do with the organization of many institutions and organizations, and the way that society is structured
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Social Structure
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The organization of society that shapes the individual social behavior, groups choices, opportunities, experiences, and social attitudes
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Positivism
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The viewpoint that is possible to know for sure by subjection them to empirical testing and demonstrating the cause and effect at work
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Theory
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General statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work
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Karl Marx
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-Engine of human history is class conflict--bourgeoisie vs proletariat"It's all about the economy"
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Max Weber
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-Capitalism was more likely to flourish in Protestant countries"social life is complex"
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Emile Durkheim
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"It's all about the solidarity"how society holds together through dramatic changes in the division of labor-identified social integration, worked on suicide
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Jane Addams
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Founded Hull House (community center for poor)regarded as a social worker
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W.E.B Dubois
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-analyzed the social stratification among Philly's black population- worked on civil rights
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Robert Park
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Founded Chicago School- school for sociologists
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