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Introduction To Sociology Flashcards

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What is sociology?

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The study of human social relationships and institutions

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What is culture

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Describes the way of life of a group of people

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What is socialisation

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Where people learn their culture from others around them

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What are Norms?

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The rules or guidelines for expected behaviours

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What are mores

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Ways of behaving that are seen as good or moral

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What is social change

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Any differences in the way that people think or act

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What are values

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Widely accepted beliefs That some things are worth while and desirable

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What are customs

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Traditional and regular forms of behaviour associated with social occasions

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What is a status

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A persons standing or position in society based on respect

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What is ascribed status

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Where your position in life in given automatically

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What is achieved status

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Where your position in life is controlled through their efforts

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What is social role

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When your expected to follow particular norms of behaviour based on your status

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What is role conflict?

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When you have numerous roles to follow and they clash

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What is social control

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A way of ensuring that people conform to Norms and values so the social order is maintained

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What is formal social control

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Official control on the basis of written down laws/rules

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What is informal social control?

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Unofficial control not based on written rules, often based on expectation

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What are sanctions

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A form of social control

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What are positive sanctions

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Reinforce behaviours through rewards

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What are negative sanctions

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Disencourage behaviours through punishment

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What is social construction

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Any idea that is created and given special meaning by people

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What is an example of social construction

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Culture

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What is cultural diversity

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Cultures vary across the world and change over time

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What is ethnocentric

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When your culture influences your perspective

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What is the nature debate

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When biologists and psychologists argue that behaviour doesn’t need to be learned and is mainly shaped by natural instincts and genetics

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What is nurture debate

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When sociologists question whether human behaviour is governed by instinct entirely as they believe that most of our behaviours are learned and that social factors over ride biology

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What is socialisation

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When humans learn their culture from others. Where we learn acceptable beliefs and behaviours

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What is an agent of socialisation

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Any person, social groups or organisations that passes norms and values and essentially teaches us how to behave

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What is primary socialisation

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Where we learn from immidiate family in the home

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What is secondary socialisation

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Learning from wider society

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What is tertiary socialisation

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Adult socialtion in new situations

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Who said there were 3 differnt types of socialisation

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Tallcott Parsons

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What are feral children

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Children bought up without human socialisation

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What is identity

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Our sense of who we are, our relationship to other people and our place in social world

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What is our primary identity

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Our personal sense of self

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What is our secondary identity

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Our social sense of self and the times we play in society

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Who claimed that children learn expected behaviour for their gender through manipulation, verbal appellations, activities and canalisation

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Ann Oakley

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