MODULE 2 Flashcards
behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.
CONFORMITY
is the tendency to align our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with those around us.
CONFORMITY
Mechanisms by which the social behavior of people is controlled to maintain order or to re-establish order once rules have been broken.
SOCIAL CONTROL
Types of social sanctions:
Informal (disapproval, ridule, gossip)
Formal (fine, imprisonment or death)
A Polish anthropologist argued that rules must be obeyed for multiple reasons.
Bronislaw Malinowski
a violation of established social norms.
DEVIANCE
This form of deviance refers to the use of unadvised or sometimes illegal methods to achieve social goals.
Innovation
strictly observe the norms set by the society. However, in trying to conform generally to the social rules, they tend to forget the primary reason why they are conforming to it – to achieve social goals.
Ritualism
It is a complete rejection of norms. This term of deviance happens when individuals try to escape from achieving social goals because they cannot fulfill them.
Retreatism
This form of deviance is usually observed in minorities promoting change and introducing alternative values and institutions.
Rebellion
He created the 4 Forms of Deviance
Robert Merton
An individual or group’s sense of self-respect and self-worth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment.
Human Dignity
entitlements a person must enjoy in the attainment and protection oh his/her human dignity.
Rights-
the benefit or interests of all.
Common Good
An American Sociologist who defined “group” as a number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who regularly and consciously interact with one another.
Richard Schaefer
it is a small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face association and cooperation among the members.
Primary Group
it refers to the formal and impersonal group wherein members have little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary Group
people feel they belong in a close group
In-group
feel as though they should not have been in that specific group.
Out-Group
when people use a group as a standard by evaluating its members and their behavior.
Reference Group
It is the structure of connection of an individual with oneself, with other individual/s, and group/s (Faust, 1944). It can be small or vast, intrapersonal or interpersonal, emergent, and complex.
Networks
These networks start from a single individual, expanding his/her contacts with other individuals
Micro-level
not only individual may be affiliated with their fellow individuals. Even groups can be linked with individuals and with each other.
Meso-level
It is the most complex level of network where a high density of connections is present.
Macro-level
