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Sociology ✔Correct Answer--the study of societies and the social worlds that individuals inhabit
within them
Social Structure ✔Correct Answer--refers to the external forces, most notably social hierarchy,
norms, and institutions, that provide the context for individual and group action
According to CW Mills, what are public issues? ✔Correct Answer--Public issues affect large
numbers of people and refer to changes in the way entire societies work.
Sociological Imagination ✔Correct Answer--the capacity to think systematically about how many
things we experience as personal problems
Agency ✔Correct Answer--Individual that acts in the world autonomously (on their own)
Social Context ✔Correct Answer--The social environments, including economic and cultural
conditions, that influence people's lives.
Social Hierarchy ✔Correct Answer--the division of society by rank or class
Social Theories ✔Correct Answer--systematic ideas about the relationship between individuals and
societies
Karl Marx Capitalism ✔Correct Answer--"class of people who own the means of production and
the machinery to produce consumer goods" He believed that there would be never ending conflict
between the capitalist and the worker but to understand why, one must understand how objects
acquire value, and that is through the exploitation of labor.
Marxist Theory ✔Correct Answer--the way the economic system creates the conditions that will
ultimately determine the creation of ideas (false consciousness)
Marx vs. Weber ✔Correct Answer--Marxist Theory moves from tangible and visible realm of social
structure to the less visible and less tangible realm of ideas.
Weber Theory: moves from the less visible and tangible ideas and values in order to explain the more
visible and tangible realm of social structure
W.E.B Debois Psychological Wages of Whites ✔Correct Answer--White laborers are compensated
with "psychological wages" and by analyzing these "unearned wages" (referring to white privilege), it
is possible to connect white supremacy to capitalism.
This divides the movement, making low wage white workers feel superior to low wage black workers
Emile Durkheim ✔Correct Answer--- Provided insights into the social forces that contributes to the
rise of a global village.
- As division of labor becomes more specialized, and as sources of material become more
geographically diverse, a new kind of solidarity emerges