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Sociology
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The systematic study of the relationships between individuals, groups and institutions
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Microsociology
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Social relations that happen on a small scale, interactions
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Macrosociology
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Large scale social relations and social organizations such as governments, bureaucracies and stratification systems such as class
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Bureaucracie
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Our government, big business
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Social norms
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Accepted behaviors that follow cultural values
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Folkways
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Norms of little consequence (generally interactional norms)
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Mores
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Norms of serious consequence (violating important statuses within our society)
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Sociological imagination
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The ability to analyze individual experience in relation to the overall working and structure of society
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Troubles
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Individual matters - private
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Issues
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Structural - public matters
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What sociological imagination allows us to do:
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- to examine a problem or issue and consider the social or historical forces that might play a part
- to shift from one perspective to another, viewing the situation from a variety of standpoints
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Major sociological theory
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Tentative explanations of social life derived from social observation
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Functionalism
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Macrolevel theory - all social institutions are interpreted as structures whose parts are interdependent. A change in one element must lead to a change in all other elements to achieve equilibrium.
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Function - Manifest
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Obvious or intended functions of social systems
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Function - latent
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Unintended, underlying or unrecognized functions of social systems
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