Psychology 1 Flashcards
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Psychology
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Study of people
- how people think and interact,
- mental processes
- interaction with the environment
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Sociology
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Study of behavior in the group
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Social Constructionism
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- human actors construct or create realities rather than discovering a reality that has inherent validity
- beliefs & shared understanding of individuals create social realities
- social institutions
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Symbolic Interactionism
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- focuses on small-scale interactions between individuals and in small groups
- through social interactions individual develop shared meanings and labels for various symbols - terms, concepts, items
- small-scale interactions
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Functionalism
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- factions of society work together to maintain stability
- the system that contains different components that work together
- homeostasis
- social institutions
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Conflict theory
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- the society composed of competing groups that act according to their self-interest, not for societal equilibrium
- describes a change
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Culture
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a shared set of beliefs and lifestyle
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Society
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A group of people who share culture
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Social institutions
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- government and economy
- education
- religion
- family
- health and medicine
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intragenerational mobility
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becoming rich young
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intergenerational mobility
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kids better off than parents
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Cultural capita
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non-monetary social factors that contribute to social mobility, “ fit in” or “stick out”, accents
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Social capita
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Social networks and connections
