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What is sociology?

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The scientific study of human social relationships, groups and society’s.
Aims to understand human behavior, social relations and social institutions.
Requires that you build a foundation for your knowledge and understand the social work.

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What is sociological imagination?

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The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and larger social forces that help to shape them.

Examples: civil rights movement and millennials and resistance

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What is biography

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The individual

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What is history

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The larger social world

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How do biography and history intersect

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How much of what happens to you is a result of our current and past social worlds

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What is the difference between agency and structure

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Agency is the ability of individuals and groups to exercise free will and make social changes on a small or large scale
structure is patterned social arrangements to have affects on agency

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What does it mean to critically think

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The ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence.

  • how difficult
  • think logically and be clear
  • back up arguments w evidence
  • think abolse assumptions and biases
  • avoid anecdotal evidence
  • be willing to admit when you are wrong and uncertain about something
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Silent generation

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1928 to 1945

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Boomers

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1946 to 1964

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Generation X

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1965 to 1980

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Millennials

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1981 to 1995

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Generation Z

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1996 to 2010

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Alpha generation

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2011 to present

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General trends in populations numbers

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The age pyramid is turning into a rectangle.

As many over the age of 85 as 5 year olds

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What are the main points of the article “8 key differences between generation Z in millennials”

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  • less focused than millennials
  • millennial’s are better
  • millennials care more about prices than generation z
  • generation Z is full of early starters
  • generation Z is more entrepreneurial
  • generation Z has higher expectations than millennials
  • generation Z is high on individuality
  • generation Z is more global
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What is culture

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The beliefs, norms, behaviors and products common to the members of a particular group

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What is material culture

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The physical objects that are created, embraced or consumed by a society that helps shape peoples lives

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What is nonmaterial culture

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The abstract creations of human cultures including language and social practices

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What are beliefs

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Particular ideas that people accept as true

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What are norms

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Accepted social behaviors and beliefs or the common rules of a culture that govern the behavior of people belonging to that culture

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What are folkways

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Fairly weak norms that are passed down from the past, the violation which is generally not considered serious within a particular culture

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What are mores

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Strongly held norms, the violation of which seriously offends they standards of acceptable conduct of most people within a particular culture

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What are taboos

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Powerful norms, the violation of which is considered serious an even unthinkable within a particular culture

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What are values

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The general standard in society that define ideal principles like those governing notions of right and wrong

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What is real culture

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The values and norms and behaviors that people in a society actually embrace and exhibit

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What is ideal culture

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The values, norms and behaviors that people in a given society profess to embrace

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Cultural inconsistencies

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A contradiction between the goals of the ideal culture and practice of real culture

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What is high culture

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The music, theater and other cultural products that are held in particularly high esteem and society

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What is popular culture

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The entertainment, culinary and athletic tastes should buy the masses

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What is mass media

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Media of public communication intended to reach and influence a mass audience

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What is global culture

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A type of culture -some would say US culture- that has spread across the world in the form of Hollywood films, fast food restaurants and popular music heard in every country

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What is ethnocentrism

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A communities or societies cultural norms, values and practices that are internalized to the point where they become part of the natural order

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How does this term relate to the term doxic

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Taken for granted as natural or normal and society

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What is cultural relativism

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A worldview whereby the practice of a society are understood sociologically in terms of the societies norms and values and not the norms and values of another society

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How have attitudes about obeying social norms change over generations

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  • Younger generations said to be driven by individual needs and desires not rules
  • decline of social rules
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Miligram experiment 1963

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Obedience to authority

37
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Asch experiment 1951,1974

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Conformity

Yields to group influence

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Stanford prison 1973

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Corruption the results from giving a group of individuals power
Make ordinary people do things they never imagine doing

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How have desired traits and children change the silent generation

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1924: strict obedience, loyalty to church, good manners
1988: independent, tolerance

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How has the naming children changed over the years

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Names that show how great child is increasing

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What is so socialization

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The process by which people learn the culture of their society

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What is social learning

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The way people adapt their behavior in response to social rewards and punishment

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How can self-esteem be tired to social learning

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Difficult to take criticism

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When did the self-esteem movement come about and why

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In the 1980s because magazines and talk shows and books emphasize the importance of self-esteem

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What are some basic patterns and trends we see today as a result of this quest to keep kids self-esteem high

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  • Don’t correct children’s mistakes such as spelling or grammar
  • didn’t fail but differed succes
  • kids should be independent speller so they can be treated as individuals
  • eight-year-old proud of getting half of the words right
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What is the Rosenbergs self-esteem scale

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  • Measures self-esteem in adults
  • more high self esteem than in 1968
  • high school and college students more likely to believe they’re superior to their peers
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What is the Coopersmith self-esteem scale

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  • Measures self-esteem in kids

- scored lower than 81% of boomers

48
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What is the NPI scale

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  • Narcissistic personality disorder
  • measures narcissism in normal population
  • younger generation more narcissistic
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If younger generations are more narcissistic what other action appears to contradict this behavior

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  • Rise in commitment to help others
  • more likely to volunteer
  • 73% of college students said helping others during difficulty was important
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Dramaturgy (goffman)

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The study of social interaction as if it were governed by the practices of the atrical performance

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Presentation of self

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The creation of impression in the minds of others in order to define and control social settings

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Impression management

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Effort to control the impressions we make an others so they form the desired view of us and the situation

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Front stage

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The places which deliver our performance to an audience of others

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Backstage

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The place in which we rehearse and prepare for performances

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Looking glass self Cooley

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That our self image results from how we interpret

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Primary groups

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Small groups characterized by intense emotional ties, face-to-face interaction, intimacy and a strong , enduring sense of commitment

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Secondary groups

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Groups that are impersonal and characterize or fleeting relationships

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Reference groups

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  • Primary groups that provides standards for judging or attitudes or behaviors
  • most influential in our lives provides the greatest impact in shaping early view of ourselves
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What is the bystander effect

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Hey diffusion of responsibility which suggests the more people there are present to witness an event the less each individual feels personally responsible

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What does the term have to do with Kitty Genovese

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People reported hearing screaming but did not react

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What is ambiguity

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Not sure of the situation requires your help

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What is group Cohesiveness

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If others don’t react to send social cues

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What are Dyads

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  • Group consisting of two persons
  • offer intimacy and conflict - intense and unstable
  • share deepest secrets like best friends
  • might be too easy to dissolve
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Triads

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  • Group consisting of three persons
  • more stable than two people
  • mini play group mediator
  • main problem alliances a subgroup that forms between group members enabling them to dominate the group in their own interest
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How does increasing the number of people in any group tell us about group behavior

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-As group size increases the intensity of relationships with in the group decrease while overall a group stability increases

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What does it tell us about individual relationships with in the group

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  • If one person leaves group still remain stable
  • cause members to avoid relationships with other groups
  • Bonds with some groups members may not be as intense as bonds with other group members
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How does individual power manifest appearance

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Increase in surgery and beauty products

68
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How does individual power manifest materialism

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42% a boomers said it was important to be well-off financially

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