KIN 3305: EXAM 1
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sociology
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study of the social worlds that people create, maintain, and change through their relationships with each other
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social world
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identifiable sphere of everyday actions and relationships
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society
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relatively self-sufficient collection of people who maintain a way of life in a particular territory
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culture
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shared ways of life and shared understandings that people develop as they live together
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social interaction
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people taking each other into account and, in the process, influencing each other's feelings, thoughts, and actions
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social structure
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established patterns of relationships and social arrangements that take shape as people live, work, and play with each other
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social structure
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includes all forms of movement and physical activities that people in particular social worlds create, sustain, and regularly include in their collective lives
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social constructions
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includes all forms of movement and physical activities that people in particular social worlds create, sustain, and regularly include in their collective lives
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sociology of sport
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sub discipline of sociology and physical education that studies sports as social phenomena
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ideologies
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that people in a particular culture use to give meaning to and make sense of what occurs in their social worlds
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ideology
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shared interpretive framework that people use to make sense of and evaluate themselves, others, and events in their social worlds
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gender ideology
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to define masculinity and felinity, identify people as male or female, evaluate forms of sexual expression, and determine the appropriate roles of men and women in society
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racial ideology
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to classify human beings into categories assumed to be biological and related to attributes such as intelligence, temperament, and physical abilities
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social class ideology
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely shared and used by people to evaluate their material status; explain why economic success, failure, and inequalities exist; and what should be done about economic differences in a group or society
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meritocracy
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deserving people become successful and where failure is the result of inability, poor choices, and a lack of motivation
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ableist ideology
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interrelated ideas and beliefs that are widely used to identify people as physically or intellectually disabled, to justify treating them as inferior, and to organize social worlds and physical spaces without take them into account
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ableism
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attitudes, actions, and policies based on the belief that people classified as physically or intellectually disabled are incapable of full participation in mainstream activities and inferior to people with "normal" abilities
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social research
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investigations in which we seek answers to questions about social worlds by systematically gathering and analyzing data
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social theories
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logically interrelated explanations of the actions and relationships of human beings and the organization and dynamics of social worlds
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personal theories
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summaries of ideas and explanations of social life and the contexts in which it occurs
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cultural theories
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explain what we know about the ways that people think and express their values, ideas, and beliefs as they live together and create social worlds
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narratives
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explanations that people use -- or the stories they tell -- to explain and make sense of their choices and actions
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interactionist theory
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explain what we know about the origins, dynamics, and consequences of social interaction among people in particular social worlds
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structural theories
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explain what we know about different forms of social organization and how they influence actions and relationships
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sites
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identifiable social places or contexts
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sites
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involve collecting information (data) about people and social worlds, converting the information into numbers, and analyzing the numbers by using statistical procedures and tests
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qualitative methods
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involve collecting information about people, media content, events, and social worlds, identifying patterns and unique features, and analyzing the information by using interpretive procedures and tests
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fieldwork
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"on-site" data collection
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ethnography
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fieldwork that involves both observations and interviews
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narratives
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stories that people tell about themselves and their social worlds
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images
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visual representations of ideas, people, and things
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symbols
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concrete representations of the values, beliefs and moral principles around which people organize their ways of life
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gender
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consists of interrelated meanings, performances, and organization that become important aspects of social worlds
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gender
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process of learning and social development, which occurs as we interact with one another and become familiar with social worlds
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hegemony
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process of maintaining leadership and control by gaining the consent and approval of other groups, including those who are being led or controlled
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KIN 3305: HISTORY FINAL