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1
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What is Sociology?

A

Study of people

study of development and structure

2
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What does sociology deal with?

A
history
political science
economics
psychology
anthropology
3
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Who is Auguste Comte?

A

sociology - new way of thinking

4
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What is the Doctrine of Positivism?

A

way of understanding society based on science

5
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What are the three changes?

A

factory based industrial economy
growth of cities
ideas of democracy & politics

6
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Who is Karl Marx?

A
Marxism - working class
stateless society
7
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Who is Emile Durkheim?

A

-structural functionalism (div. of labor)
religion
suicide
crime

8
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Max Weber?

A

abstract theory

9
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What is Anthropology?

A

human study

within past and present

10
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Physical/Biological Anthropology?

A

evolution

darwin’s theory

11
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Cultural Anthropology

A

archeology – fossils
linguistics – devl’t of language
ethnology – ancient activities / norms or beliefs

12
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What is Political Science?

A

study of state and gov’t

13
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Political Science

A

Political Theory
Laws
Administration

14
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What are the three types of laws?

A

international
administrative
constitutional

15
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Why study Political Science?

A

education for citizenship
liberal education
knowledge and understanding

16
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What consists of a state?

A

people
government
territory
sovereignty

17
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True or False: Is gov’t under the state?

A

TRUE

18
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what is a state?

A

political concept
free from external control
- principal and would never change

19
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what is a nation?

A

ethical concept
external control
-agent and would change