Sociology Exam 3 1. Affirmative Action pos efforts to recruit minority grp mem/ women for jobs‚ promotions‚ edu opportunities; argued that discrimination will shift to Whites ex.: height/ residency requirements‚ testing differ w/ culture- sherpas: olf value independence‚ own homes/ good physical cond; fulani: old move to edge of homestead where ppl are buried‚ socially viewed as dead prejudice/ discrimination based on person’s age -endogamy: restrictions of mate selection to ppl in same
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Chapter 1 Definition of Sociology – The study of social behaviour and relationships. Explains why members of some groups behave differently than members of other groups. Modern development of sociology is due to the: • Industrial Revolution and French revolution Both lead to changes and growth of trade and cities as well as a new organization of work. Early Sociologists Auguste Comte – credited by some as the “founder” of sociology. Sociologists would be “priests” to guide society
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“It is possible to provide security against other ills‚ but as far as death is concerned‚ we men live in a city without walls.” There is no controlling it; death will come when it will. A wise statement by Epicurus but nonetheless‚ not entirely true in the present climate. Western civilization is unceasing in its desire to master that which nature has designed to be unconquerable‚ as evidenced by the rapid advancements that technology and medicine have made. If one values human life‚ after all‚
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Method: empiricism‚ statement‚ replicable‚ communicability‚ institutionalized skepticism (willingness for institution to say this is crap)‚ potential to falsify claim Sociology as a science Sociology studies people Since humans are qualitatively different (they think and learn‚ have awareness) – reason for debate about what sociology should look like The Research Process in order to be able to gather truthful data‚ you need to limit the area of exploration to something
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is comprised of social constructs and that there is no "Absolute truth" Instead all of societies functions are constructed and continuously moulded by man. a) the rejection of the concept of western history as ’progress’ which was there in the sociologies of both functionalism and marx‚ Postmodernity offers the rejection of ’The grand narrative’ or "Meta-Narrative which is replaced by a more dispersed and discontinous set of narratives this means the shift from structuralism (in both Marx and his
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September 18‚ 2013 Reflection #1 In Sociology there are many interesting topics‚ people and facts that are discussed. I personally find this class to be very interesting with the new material that’s taught to me. In my breakout session I attended Friday‚ I learned about socialization and at the end I was assigned an assignment. My assignment was to find a section in chapter 3 that was interesting to me and express my opinions on it. The most interesting section to me was‚ Isolated Children
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Immigration is the movement of non-native people in order to settle in a different place or country. People move out of their country of origin for many reasons. Whether it is for a better job‚ better education‚ or simply to be with loved ones‚ immigrants have come to the United States with dreams of living a better life. The United States is none other than a make up of immigrants from diverse countries. Immigrants have been coming to the United States since its founding and have shaped the way
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introduction to sociology SOCI 1510 Section 009; 950 Fall 2013 Instructor: Helen Potts‚ Ph.D. Phone: 940.369.7801 Email: Helen.Potts@unt.edu (preferred) Office: Chilton Hall‚ 390H Office Hours: On-line‚ as needed. Please use the email address above! The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise. To recognize this task and this promise is the mark of the classic social
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Short Paper: Deviance Racism Chris Poirier The example I chose that illustrates deviant behavior in American society is racism. Deviance is behavior that violates social norms and arouses negative social reactions.[1] Racism is a form of defiance that has grown more socially unacceptable as time moves forward. Times are changing and society is becoming more culturally acceptable. I have always seen societies views as a majority vote. Society seems to cast out things that it does not understand
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tribe called the Nacirema. The article shows how someone outside of the United States could potentially view America’s culture as strange with all of our rituals and self-obsession. “The Body Ritual” can provide examples of many topics presented in Sociology and people’s lives today such as culture‚ culture relativism‚ ethnocentrism‚ and qualitative research methodology. “The Body Ritual” was written in 1956‚ a time when people’s basic understanding of different culture was insufficient. (Hyung Kim
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