SOCI 2013 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Micro Focus International, Class Conflict, Harriet Martineau
19 May 2017
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Sociology: systematic study of human society and social interaction. Sociologists study societies & social interactions to develop theories: how behavior is shaped by group, how group life is affected by individuals. Sociological imagination: the ability to see relationships between individual experience and the larger society: helps put personal troubles into larger social context, c. wright mills. Society is a set groups of competing for power and resources is the. Society sum of daily interactions guided symbols by. Manifest function: recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern. Dysfunction: consequence of social practice/behavior pattern that undermines the stability of a social system. Ex: school gangs that pressure members to not participate/damage school participation. Personal trouble: many consider suicide as the result of personal problems. Public issue: issue of cohesiveness in society: could be understood by studying individual personalities or inherited tendencies. Methodological: the application of scientific knowledge to physical and social phenomena.
