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Sociology is a science guided by the basic understanding that the social matters.

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S ociological imagination is the ability to look beyond the individual as the cause for success/failure and see how one’s society influences the outcome.

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Macro. How society affects the individual?

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- Society is relatively stable, because all the parts performed their functions that maintains stability.
-Society force individuals to function the way there are expecting you
- According to Emile Durkeim, all social institution are interrelated

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- Socialization
- Social control
- Assimilation
- "Education function as a bridge from family to world society." -Talcott Parsons
- Education contributes to teaching- spreading and producing new knowledge, values, and beliefs. Change is needed to maintain stability

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- this paradigm does not take into account the influence of wealth and power on the formation of the society
- many minorities being ignored
- accused of supporting that status quo
- failed to see inequalities in social class because they only see the functional parts.

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Macro. How society affects the individual?

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- Society in a struggle for scarce resources
- People always struggle for more power and wealth
- Inequality always involves conflict theory.
- Society is always on a pyramid structure

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- Stratification tool for the capitalist society
- Social control

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- often accused it of being too radical
- The paradigm is synonymous to the idea of oppress the weak
- Seem to make the notion of conflict like a bad thing

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Micro. How an individual affects the society?

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- Society comes from its symbol
- Symbols we use are arbitrary, they vary from culture to culture
- How communication influences the way people interaction with each other create the social world in which we live?
- "People are constantly acting in order to convince people the character they wish to portray to the outside world."-Erving Goffman

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- focus on the interaction inside the education system—the interaction between the teacher and the students, as well as how they construct and understand different definitional categories on which they base their actions.

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- this perspective ignores the coercive effects of social structure
- focusing too much on the power of the individual to co-create his or her world
- Ignores the power of influence of social forces that dictate the interpretation of the symbols.