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sociology the basics
sociology - correct answer ✔the systematic study of human society


Peter Berger 1963 - correct answer ✔described the sociological perspective
"as seeing the general in the particular"


Sociological perspective - correct answer ✔seeing the general in the
particular...To see general patterns and behaviors of particular people


sociological perspective and how society shapes what we think and do -
correct answer ✔Women choose to have children is globally different due to
social econimic opprotunities. Women in poor countries tend to have more
children, due to the lack of education and the availability of birthcontrol


Emile Durkheim-Social intergration - correct answer ✔Categories of people
with strong social ties had low suicide rates, and more individualistic people
had high suicide rates


C.Wright Mills, Great depression - correct answer ✔People took a
sociological approach and realized. "The economy has collapsed; there are no
jobs to found!" vs "Something must be wrong with me."


Global perspective - correct answer ✔the study of the larger world and our
society's place in it.


High income countries - correct answer ✔nations with the highest overall
standards of living

,middle-income countries - correct answer ✔nations standard of living about
average for the world as a whole


low-income countries - correct answer ✔low standard of living in which most
people are poor


where we live shapes the lives we lead. - correct answer ✔ex. women living
in rich and poor nations have very different lives, as by the number of children
they have.


Societies throughout the world are increasingly interconnected - correct
answer ✔Technology links all of us, like food, clothing, and music.


Many social problems that we face in the us are far more serious elsewhere -
correct answer ✔Poverty is a serious problem in US, but more so in Latin
America, Africa, and Asia...
Gender inequality is much greater in the world's poor countries


Thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves. - correct answer
✔Comparing life in various settings often leads to unexpected
lessons..Chennai, India squatter camp, has a lack of basic material goods, but
people thrive in the love and support of family


applying the sociological perspective - correct answer ✔1: sociology is at
work guiding may of the laws and policies that shape our lives
2: on an individual level, making use of the sociological perspective leads to
important personal growth and expanded awareness
3: studying sociology is excellent preparation for the world of world

, Lenore Weitzman-Public policy - correct answer ✔Her study of how dicorce
affects people's income.
Women had a dramatic loss of income. With that, states passed laws to
increase claims to marital property and enforced fathers' obligations to proved
support


Personal Growth - correct answer ✔applying sociological perspective, we
are likely to become more active and aware and to think more critically in our
everyday lives.


S.P. helps us assess the truth of Common sense - correct answer ✔?We are
free people who decide our own fate, we are quick to praise successful people
as superior and consider others with fewer achievements personally deifient?


SP helps us see the opportunities and constraints in our lives - correct
answer ✔helps us learn more about the world around us so that we can
pursue our goals more effectively


SP empowers us to be active participants in our society - correct answer
✔SP turns a private problem, like being out of work, into a public issue of lack
of jobs and down ecconomy


SP helps us live in a diverse world - correct answer ✔prompts us to critically
think about the strengths and weaknesses of all ways of like, including our
own


Development of sociology - correct answer ✔1:Rise of factory-base economy
2: explosive growth of cities
3: political change

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