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Chapter 1-4 Exam Review Flashcards

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1
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Sociological Perspective

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General patterns in behavior of particular individuals

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What can change our sociological perspective?

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Marginality, crisis, and rapid change can enhance our ability to see sociologically

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Social Integration

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How integrated you are within a society

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Suicide Rates

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The less social integration you have, the higher likelihood of suicide
White males most common

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Reasons of suicide rates?

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Isolation: for example, living in the middle states with separated population vs dense population
More religion, less suicide

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What are agents of socialization?

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Family, school, peer groups, and mass media

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Family

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Sets core beliefs, values, and morals from beginning of life

Socialize you to behave the way they expect

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School

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You meet other children and socialize; the “hidden curriculum”
(pledge of allegiance, spelling bee, bureaucracy, etc.)

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Peer groups

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Common interests you can share, learn our own relationships, influences our tastes, attitudes, language, etc.

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Mass Media

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Can be divergent from peer group, family, and school
Teaches you global influences
Think of our society within global perspective
Gender roles affected

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George Herbert Mead

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Social Behaviorism: our behavior is not natural; composed of social experiences

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Mead’s Theory: Infancy

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Infants begin w/out self–create one based on imitation

Playing is important for social roles

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Mead’s final stage in development

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We see ourselves from the perspective of the “generalized other”
Notice how others are evaluating us

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Types of culture

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Real and ideal

What we see vs. what we think people want to see

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Real culture

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Social patterns are mandated by society
The things that actually occur in everyday life
Everyday patterns arising from cultural expectations

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Ideal culture

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What we wish could be: everyone to have equal opportunity and access; not realistic (lol)

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Types of societies

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Hunter-gatherer, agrarian, industrialized

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Hunter-gatherer

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Raising plants and animals
God as creator
Equal society; everyone same contributions

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Agrarian

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More specialized; using money
Dramatic increase in social inequality
Cultural diversity increases

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Industrial

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Advanced sources of energy for large machinery
Pushes aside traditional cultural values
Reduce economic inequality; extend political rights

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Post-industrialism

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Production of info using computer technology

Can store ideas and info in computers & devices

22
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Thomas Theorem

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Your perception of reality is real for YOU
Someone may have a different perception
(ex. think everyone has same opportunities, if they don’t get it it’s b/c they’re not working hard enough)

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Erving Goffman

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Dramaturgical analysis: people live their lives like actors performing on stage

24
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Status (dramaturgical analysis)

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Part in the play

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Role (dramaturgical analysis)

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The script

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Impression management

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A person's efforts to create specific images in minds of others
How we dress (costume)
Objects we carry (props)
Tone, gestures (demeanor)
Performance on location (set)
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Types of statuses

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Ascribed, achieved, and master status

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Ascribed status

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Given to you involuntarily (race, gender)

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Achieved status

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Something you achieved through talent/ability/effort

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Master status

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High importance to social identity that teaches person’s life
Serious illness, convict, race, disability

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Importance of global perspective

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Study of the larger world and our society’s place in it

How things are interconnected–how they affect us

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Levels of analysis in theory

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Macro and micro

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Macro analysis

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Approaching society on a systematic level

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Micro analysis

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Individual interaction with people

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