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Chapter 1. Sociology: An Introduction. Sociological imagination Seeing the relationships between social conditions and one’s own situation in life. Social conditions The realities of the life we create together as social beings. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 1
Sociology:An Introduction
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• Sociological imaginationSeeing the relationships between social conditions and one’s own situation in life.
• Social conditionsThe realities of the life we create together as social beings.
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• Sociology The scientific study of human societies and human behavior in the many groups that make up a society.
• Micro-level sociology An approach to the study of society that focuses on patterns of social interaction at the individual level.
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• Macro-level sociology An approach to the study of society that focuses on the major structures and institutions of society.
• Middle-level sociology Studies the effects of communities and organizations on individual lives or behaviors.
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• Scientific methodThe process by which theories and explanations are constructed through repeated observation and careful description.
• Human ecologyA sociological perspective that emphasizes the relationships among social order, social is organization, and the distribution of populations in space and time.
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• Interactionism A sociological perspective that views social order and social change as resulting from repeated interactions among individuals and groups.
• FunctionalismA sociological perspective that focuses on the ways in which a complex pattern of social structures and arrangements contributes to social order.
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• Conflict perspectiveA sociological perspective that emphasizes the role of conflict and power in society.
• PowerThe ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will.