Core concepts

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Sociology

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the study of society

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Verstehen

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sympathetic understanding

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The Sociological Imagination

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The intersection between human biography and history of society

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Society

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the shared institutions, roles, patterns, norms

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Social System

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relationships between organizations, institutions and lives

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Lifeworld/system

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logics of social system and everyday ordinary life

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Social Facts/Forces

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Invisible rules and pressured from society

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Structuration

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human action always occurs in a social structure

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Agency and Structure

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Humans shape their lives with pre existing social structure
They have choices to make, but are influenced by society

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Social Construction of reality

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the meaning of things isn’t natural or automatic — we create meaning together through shared experiences and communication

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Phenomenology

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study of everyday life

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Postindustrialism

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Shift of modern societies being manufacturing dominant to tech dominant.

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Creative Class

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people whose jobs focus on creative and ideas like tech designers, and artists

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Deindustrialization

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The decline in importance of manufacturing in modern society

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Mimeticism

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human tendency of copying human behavior

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Economic Sociology

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A sociological approach to understanding economics

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Embeddedness

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The role of human relationships being deeply rooted in societal outcomes.
EX. business deals are influenced by social networks and personal connections

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Social Network

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pattern or collection of social relationships

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Worldview

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a set of beliefs around the world about a particular social group

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Community

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a collection of people with common/shared social structure

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Culture

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a whole way of life

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Milieu

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A person’s social environment. something may only makes sense in the context of that environment.

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Roles and roleplay

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social positions that are embedded in interactions
EX. Parent and child

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Dramaturgical Sociology

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performers change how they act based on who’s watching

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Stratification

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people ranked on a hierarchy, rooted in inequality

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Inequality regime

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Hidden rules and practices in society that create inequality

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Socialization

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process of learning social norms

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Norms

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Rules of normal behaviors

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Social Class

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Division of society based on social/economic status

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Cultural Capital

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knowledge, skills, and behaviors that help you succeed in a society

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Class consciousness

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a common identity among members of social class

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Institution

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complex social forms that keep themselves going based on passing down rules and structure

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ideology

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socially determined beliefs

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Lifecycle

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development of life through childhood, adolescence, midlife, old age, and death

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Organization

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Entity with members, resources and boundaries for producing goals

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Social Movement

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Collective action aimed at social reorganization

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Gender

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socially constructed identity of being a male, female or non-binary

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Race

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A classification system used to divide humans into large subgroup populations based on cultural, ethnic, and social affiliation

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Sexuality

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social construction of human sexual desire

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Agglomeration

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businesses will group themselves in a localized region to boost its economy

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Cluster

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regional based economic system

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Growth Machine

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Powerful local leaders work together to develop and grow a city

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Computerization

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Using tech and computers to evolve contemporary society for everyday life

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Meta trends in computerization

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computers becoming smaller, cheaper, more produced, more application, used more in general

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Computer life history

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all experiences computerization during a lifetime of an individual

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Convergence

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two or more techs are combined for a new use

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Digital Formation

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building communication and information infrastructure

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Socio-digitalization

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producing new tech for people to interact and socialize

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Digital Divide

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Those who were born in the digital era vs those who weren't

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Civil Society

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Collection of practices in order to maintain social order while maintain core values of america

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Technological determinism or the social construction of tech

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Tech develops on it's own and shapes society, almost as if humans had little control over it

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The power of tech

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Powerful decision makers decide how tech gets to be used

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The discourse of tech

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When people talk about tech, they often describe it based on "scripts" or storylines not holding the truth, just stereotypes