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1
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Patriarchy

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Sets the father as the head of the family and is typically responsible for decision making and earning income

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Matriarchy

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Feminine equivalent of patriarchy (sets female as head of family)

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School of thought

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Perspective within a field of study

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Institution (A)

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Organizations, laws, practices

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5
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Materialism

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Technological and economic factors are of highest importance

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Anthropology

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Culture & cultural comparisons

How are cultures of world similar or different?

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Functionalism - A

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What purpose does this institution serve? How does it contribute to social stability.

To understand a culture

Assumes stability in society and downplays negative results of institutions/ practices

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Cultural materialism

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How to population and economic factors influence culture? What laws of development apply to all cultures?

To understand culture, u must examine their reproduction & economic production

Don’t allow for cultural differences, biased trying to make everything fit in 1 model

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Intuition vs knowledge

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Intuition: based on feelings or personal experience

Knowledge: based on evidence from research or experiments

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10
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Psychology

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Study of human mind

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Conscious mind

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Active and awake mind, decision maker

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12
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Unconscious mind

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Dormant mind, influences behaviour whole awake works through data / experiences

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13
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ID

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Part of mind for basic needs (food, sleep)

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14
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Super ego

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Part of mind that appeals to standards (social acceptability)

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Ego

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Part of mind that is balance between I’d and super ego

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Genocide

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The organized, systematic and deliberate removal/extinction of a group (religious, ethnic, etc) from society usually carried out by those who have social power

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Stimulus/ response

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Event that stimulates senses and the response that follows

18
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Psychoanalytic theory

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How does the Unconscious mind affect our actions
How can we understand it?

Not scientifically researched no proof

19
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Behaviourism

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How can animal experiments help explore human behaviour? Do children respond to strict or flexible rules

Models do not apply because they are different

20
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Learning theory

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How do humans learn behaviour? What mechanisms help ppl learn behaviour?

More research needed

21
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Psychology theorists

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Psychoanalytical - Freud

Behaviourism - John b Watson (Benjamin Spock

Learning theory - Ivan Pavlov and Albert bandura (BOBO EXPERIMENT)

22
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Sociology

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Study of society and human interactions

How does media shape society, institutions create identity,

23
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Institutions (P)

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Organizations in society

24
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Norms

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What is considered “normal behaviour”

25
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Deviance

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Behaviour that isn’t considered “normal”

26
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Symbolic interaction

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To understand society we must understand how ppl think

George m head - experiences shapes what we see

27
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Feminist theory

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What does it mean to me a woman, sex issues, power issues, UnderStand nature of GENDER INEQUALITY

Liberal, radical, Marxist

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Prejudice

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Set of negative attitudes or feelings unfairly cast on a group of people with no reason or justification

29
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Systemic Discrimination

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Policies, practices and laws that enforce or promote discrimination

Formal: Laws Informal: social norms

30
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Conformity

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To conform to society’s norms, what is considered “normal”

31
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Social Change

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Shift in the organization,(politics, population), beliefs or values (laws, religion, education) or practices (travel, communication) of a society.

Normal part of all cultures, some expected, some not

32
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Discrimination

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Unfair treatment of people based on race, sex, faith, nationality, sexual orientation, wealth

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