SET 3 Flashcards
Language shapes the ways in which people perceive the world.
Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis
Have been more beneficial to the U.S. society than other countries with different values.
American Values
Practices that are found in all cultures.
Cultural Universals
A research method that involves asking questions about opinions, beliefs or behaviors.
Participant Observation
Durkheim’s terms for struggle between the capitalists, who own the means of production and those who do not.
Class Conflict
Socially shared idea about what is good, desirable or important.
Value
Reward for conformity to norms or punishment for violation of norms.
Sanction
A set of widely shared beliefs.
Social Institution
How you interact with others in accordance with your role/status.
Groups
What you do in your status
Roles
Your position in society, the prestige that goes along with it.
Status
Different roles that go along with one single status.
Role Set
Two conflicting roles from two different statuses.
Role Conflict
Two conflicting roles from the same status.
Role Strain
The process of changing from a simple to a complex society.
Sociocultural evolution
Hunting-Gathering
Pastoral
Horticultural
Agricultural
Pre-Modern Societies
Industrialized
Communists
Developing
Newly industrializing
Postindustrial
Modern World Societies
Based on using food provided by nature-gathering, fishing and hunting every day. Used simple tools. The oldest and most egalitarian societies. Small societies. Nomads.
Hunting-Gathering Societies
Kung in South Africa.
Example of Hunting-Gathering
A person who believes in the equality of all people, most equal society.
Egalitarian
