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Sociology Notes ready to study Sociology Notes Sociology - correct answer the study of human behavior in society; a scientific way of thinking about society and its influence on human groups. Sociologists study the whole of their own society. Anthropology - correct answer the study of hum...

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Sociology Notes
Sociology - correct answer ✔the study of human behavior in society; a
scientific way of thinking about society and its influence on human groups.
Sociologists study the whole of their own society.


Anthropology - correct answer ✔the study of human cultures; society and
their customs, usually not their own.


Political Science - correct answer ✔the study of government/public affairs.


Social work - correct answer ✔applied field that uses the lessons of all social
sciences to serve people in need.


The Sociological Perspective - correct answer ✔the ability to see the societal
patterns that influence individual and group life.
-watching people/wondering how they are influenced by their society.


Sociological imagination - correct answer ✔the ability to see the societal
patterns that influence the individuals as well as groups of individuals.


Our personal appearance is influenced by - correct answer ✔societal
perceptions, not just our individual wants or needs.


Troubles - correct answer ✔privately felt problems that stem from events or
feelings in ones individual life.


Issues - correct answer ✔affect large numbers of people and have origins in
the history of societal.

, Sociology is an Empirical Discipline - correct answer ✔conclusions are
based on careful/systematic observations, not on previous assumptions.
-observations must be gathered and recorded rigorously.
-Sociologists are required to constantly reexamine their assumptions and
conclusions.


Debunking - correct answer ✔ability to look behind taken for granted things,
looking instead to the origins of social behavior.


Primarily a way to get ahead? - correct answer ✔education


Establishing Critical Distance - correct answer ✔Being able to detach from
the situation at hand and view things with a critical mind.
-George Simmel (1858-1918) early sociologist interested in the role of
strangers in social groups.


The Significance of Diversity - correct answer ✔the variety of group
experiences that result from the social structure of society. It includes the
study of different cultural orientations, although not exclusively about culture.


Sources of Diversity - correct answer ✔Race, class, gender, age, nationally,
sexual orientation, and region of residence


Global Perspective - correct answer ✔Social/economic systems of any one
society in increasingly intertwined with those of other nations.


Development of Sociological theory - correct answer ✔Sociology first
emerged in Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Capitalism

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