Syg2000 uf final Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Sociological Imagination correct answer: the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces. Verstehen correct answer: German; understanding. The concept of Verstehen forms the object of inquiry for interpretive sociology-- to study how social actors understand their actions and the social world through experience. Double Consciousness correct answer: two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the wor...

Formal Sanctions - ANSWER mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior; sanctions are formal, overt "expressions of official group sentiment" Informal Social Sanctions - ANSWER the usually unexpressed but widely know rules of group membership; unspoken rules of social life; unwritten rules of social life; we are all simultaneously enforcing the rules of society and having them enforced upon us; We can recognize good behavior and sanction bad behavio...