SOCL 2001 : Test One Notes
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Establishing causation: correlation relationship, time order- thing you are studying has to happen before the cause, nonspurious (reasonable explanation, explanations are false assumptions about correlation. Public sociology: using sociology to influence social change, social research mostly read by sociologists, but can benefit the public. Ethics: do no harm , informed consent, voluntary participation, protected populations. Consensual he might have not been given consent. Culture= human-nature: set of beliefs, traditions, and practices, technology by which humans dominate nature, ideologies and symbolic representations. Division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion is or is not maintained. Major cause of suicide is anomie: sense of aimlessness from too little social regulation. Society is a living organism- all different parts work together on some level. Example- what function could education perform : -keep institution going, -refresh skills base. Emphasizes the role of agreement (concerns) in maintaining order. Individuals act based on symbolic meanings attached to objects and people.
