Psychology Part II and Sociology Flashcards
A person raised in an environment with little to no human contact.
Isolate
A historian and economist whose theories form the basis of the conflict school of sociological thought.
Threshold
A specific person or group of people who become the target of hatred or blame for the hardship of others.
Scapegoat
A structural functionalist who argued that society was becoming more diverse and thought this would result in functional differentiation.
Durkheim
A symbolic interactionist who argued that our behaviours and institutions are more often motivated by efficiency and benefit than by morality or custom.
Weber
An exaggerated view or judgment made about a group or class of people.
Stereotype
Applied rational method to the study of society and named the discipline sociology.
Comte
Argued that the capacity to learn and acquire fluency in a first language is limited to the period before puberty.
Critical Period Hypothesis
Intentional actions taken against an individual or group based in the distinguishing characteristic that they possess.
Overt Discrimination
Studies sociological phenomena focusing on the competition between groups for power
Conflict Theory
Studies sociological phenomena to examine gender inequality. Has expanded to other forms of inequality as well.
Feminist Theory
The belief that one’s culture is superior, and the measurement of judgment of other cultures by that standard.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that personality is most determined by the experience,earning and socialization of a person.
Nurture
The belief that personality is most determined by the genetic inheritance and biological makeup of a person
Nature
Unequal treatment that is a result of subtle and unintentional actions or conditions
Systemic Discrimination
The process by which someone will alter or change his or her thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviour to meet the expectations of a group or authority figure.
Conformity
Refers to the effects of pressure from the collective on the decision making abilities of individual members of a group
Groupthink
The small close-knit group to which one most intimately belongs, usually family and close friends, typically has the most influence of a person
Primary Group
An approach to deviance that argues that when people are frustrated in their attempts to meet society’s goals, they are more likely to participate in deviant or unaccepted behaviours to achieve those goals
Strain Theory
Collective behaviour that is spontaneous, positive and tends to bind society together
Prosocial
Explain the concept of the “forbidden experiment”.
Depriving human contact to determine how much “nature” determines development
Explain how cases such as Genie and Victor come close to the “forbidden experiment”.
Genie - raised with little human interaction then development tracked
Victor - raised in the wild
Choose a social institution (marriage, family, school, government, etc.) and analyze it from the point of view from a Social Functionalist.
School
-what needs are met?
•education
-how is it necessary in various societies?
•children are getting an education to pursue they career
List the Social Institutions.
Family
- primary agent of socialization
Education
- transmit knowledge, skills and social values from one generation to the next
Religion
- organized collection of beliefs and cultural systems
Government
- human society based on guiding principles upheld by authority figures
Economy
- provide society with appropriate examples of leadership styles
