Exam 1. Flashcards
(31 cards)
Purpose of social awareness test.
To show you how culture varies.
What are the four objectives of this course?
- To help you understand society
- To help you understand the social world.
- To help you better understand yourself.
- To prepare you for other courses in sociology.
Gaiters begin with vignettes. Why are these important?
Because it helps you better understand the reading.
4 perspectives on human behavior.
- Biological.
- Social.
- Culture.
- Psychological.
Sociological imagination.
Anything that happens to you is not always your fault- you get laid off because your company moves to India.
3 major theoretical approaches.
- Functionalist-a society viewed as a stable orderly system.
- Conflict- groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources.
- Symbolic interaction-focuses on specific interaction amazing people.
5 ways of knowing.
- Science.
- Esp.
- Expert/authority.
- Tradition.
- Belief/ faith.
Scientific truth
Based on truth that we can verify with our senses.
Last 2 assumptions of science.
- All perceptions are achieved through senses.
2. People can trust their memory, reasoning, and perceptions as reliable agencies for acquiring facts.
Cause and effect.
When one variable changes so does another variable.
Spurious correlation.
A mathematical relationship in which two variables are not related but seen as related because of either coincidence or an unseen variable.
Culture
Way of thinking, and material objects that together form peoples way of life.
Material
A physical creation a member of society makes, uses and shares.
Non material culture
Language.
Symbols.
Values.
Norms.
Language.
A set if symbols used to create ideas and allow communication.
Values
Good/bad. Equality Racism/superiority Achievement and success Freedkm
Symbols
Something meaningful that represents something else.
Norms.
Laws- written norms
Folkways- can violate without serious consequences.
Mores- can’t violate without serious consequences.
Sapir-whiff hypothesis.
Sees and understands world through language.
Subculture.
Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societies population. I. E. Nerds.
Counterculture.
Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society. I. E. Kkk. Neo-nazi skinheads.
Ethnocentrism.
Judging another persons culture based on your own culture and believing that your culture is better.
Cultural relativism.
Believing that everyone’s cultural is different and no one is better then the other.
3 theoretical approaches.
Functional - conservative.
Conflict - seen as groups.
Sociobiological - biological
