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Sociological perspective
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Stresses the social contexts in which people live. How these contextes influence people's lives. How people are influenced by their society
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Social location
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Sociologists look at this to find out why people do what they do because of where they are located in society.
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Social groups shape
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Your ideas and desires
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Science
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Requires theories that can be tested by research.
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Sociology emerged as a recognized science because
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In the 1800s social observes began to use scientific methods to test their ideas.
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Examples of Social location
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How jobs, income, education, gender, age and race-ethnicity effect people's ideas and behavior.
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The Scientific Method
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Using objective, systematic observations to test theories
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Positivism
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The idea of applying the scientific method to the social world was first proposed by Auguste Comte
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Who was Auguste Comte
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He proposed the idea of applying the scientific method to the social world, known as positivism. He is considered the founder of sociology.
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Sociology
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The study of sociology
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Herbert Spencer
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Sometimes called the 2nd founder of sociology coined the term "survival of the fittest."
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How did Herbert Spencer feel about helping the poor?
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He thought that it was wrong, that this merely helped the "less fit" survive.
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Spencer thought that society evolved from
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Lower (barbarian) to higher (civilized) forms.
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Did Spencer conduct scientific studies?
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No he simply developed ideas about society.
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Karl Marx believed that the engine of human history is
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Class conflict
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