Exam Review Flashcards
Going the Distance
Assumptions a social scientist makes? Anthropolgist
Anthropologist: Assumes you are impacted by culture and social media
Assumptions a social scientist makes? Sociologist
Sociologist - assume they can explain your behaviour by comparing you to other people like you
Archaelogy defintion?
The study of the physical remains of a past culture through excavation and reconstruction
Postmodernism
The belief that it is impossible to have any “true” knowledge about the world. No objective truth
Difference between skinners and Pavlov’s conditioning
Operant Conditioning vs Classical Conditioning
Who created the hierarchy of needs (plus levels)
Abraham Maslow
Self-Actualization
Esteem Needs
Belonginess and love
Safety Needs
Psyciological Needs
Anal
derives pleasure from learning to control anus
can lead to perfection and obsessive cleanliness (anal retentive) or extreme messiness (anal explusive)
Perceptual set
your tendency to perceive one thing and not another.
Structural Functionalism
to study how social structures function to serve the needs of society
Socialization
The continuing process where an individual learns the appropriate behaviours patterns, skills, and values for his or her social world.
Isolates
Children raised in near isolation within human households
know what the results are later on in life4 for all
Self concept vs Self image
Self-image - how someone views themself (internally, externally)
Self-concept - a more comprehensive evaluation of the self, how a person sees, values, thinks, feels, about themselves
Feminist Sociology
to examine conflicts created by gender (gender inequality)
Macrosociology
an approach of sociology that analyzes social systems on a large scale
Microsociology
the study of small groups and individuals within a society
Differences or similarties between norms and values
Values are general and norms are specific.
Norms are dependent on values
Values = beliefs and principles that guide how someone should behave
Norm = How someone should behave
Difference between MLA and APA
Social Scientists uses APA
Conflict theory
to study how power forms the basis of the relationships between different groups and creates social conflict
Symbolic interactionism
to study the individualś role and place within the wider society and how people create their world through social interactions