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SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. A way of understanding human behavior. Human behavior as the product of social forces. The Sociological Imagination. MACRO-ENVIRONMENT. PHYSICAL - All the flora, fauna, geography, and climate of the area.

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SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

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  1. SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION A way of understanding human behavior. Human behavior as the product of social forces.

  2. The Sociological Imagination

  3. MACRO-ENVIRONMENT • PHYSICAL - All the flora, fauna, geography, and climate of the area. • SOCIAL - All the people and their patterns of interaction of the area. • The macro-environment has a direct influence on the culture people create.

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  5. CULTURE - All of the material and non-material products people produce in response to their environment. • MATERIAL- The concrete things that people make in response to their environment. • Concrete objects, such as cars, clothes, and houses. • NON-MATERIAL- The abstract constructs people produce in response to their environment. • Abstract products, such as norms, values, and language.

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  7. SOCIETY - A group of people who share culture and live within a geographic boundary. • People in society share most of the products of culture. • What distinguishes one society from another is not culture, language, or ethnicity, but rather the SOCIAL STRUCTURE of the society.

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  9. SOCIAL STRUCTURE - The pattern of relationships between the basic components of a society. • All societies have the same basic components. • Each society has a unique pattern of relationships between the basic components.

  10. SOCIAL STRUCTURE INSTITUTIONS- A cluster of norms and values that develop around some basic human need. GROUP - Two or more people who interact on the basis of shared expectations about each others’ behavior, and have a SENSE OF BELONGING. PRIMARY – SECONDARY- STATUS - A socially defined position that a person occupies. ACHIEVED - ASCRIBED – ROLE- The expected behavior from someone who occupies a specific status position. IMPLICIT - EXPLICIT -

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  15. MICRO - ENVIRONMENT - All of the immediate physical and social surroundings of the individual. • Physical - The concrete objects of the immediate surroundings. • Social - The people and group culture (norms and values) of the small group.

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  17. GROUP CULTURE - The material and non-material products produces by the group, in response to the micro-environment. • Group culture includes the norms and values of the specific group to which the individual belongs.

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  19. INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR • All human behavior is the product of social forces. • Human capacity may be biological or physiological, but human ability is the product of social forces that influence the individual. • In turn, the individual’s behavior has a minor influence on the macro-environment, and a more significant influence of the micro-environment to which the person belongs.

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