SOC 101

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The study of human behavior in society

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Sociology definition

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The ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other

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Sociological imagination

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to be able to see the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as group pf individuals

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to be able to see the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as group pf individuals

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an established and organized system of social behavior with a recognized purpose

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institutions

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2 or more people with a shared identity

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social groups

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people with meaningful and intimate relationships

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primary groups

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people you are connected to through sharing space or identity but not know each other or interact

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secondary groups

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evaluation of a group/individuals based on conceptions, despite facts that disprove them.

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Prejudice

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negative and unequal treatment of members of some social group or stratum solely because of their membership in that group

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discrimination

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This is an attitude

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Prejudice

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This is a behavior

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Discrimination

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a relatively fixed, hierarchical arrangement in society by which groups have different access to resources, power, and perceived social worth.

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Social stratification

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a system of structured social inequality.

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Social stratification

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behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms.

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Deviance

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characteristics of deviant behavior

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occurs in a social context, culturally relative, the social rules are created or constructed, the audience decides what is defined as deviant

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the decline of manufacturing jobs in the United States is called

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Economic restructuring

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The process through which people learn the expectations of society

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Socialization

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Who is responsible for socialization

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Agents of socialization (people, sources or structures)

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creates capacity of role taking, establishes self-concepts, makes people bearers of culture, provides social stability,

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goals of socialization

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societal structure pyramid

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Institutions
social groups
status
roles

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These are systems of behavioral and relationship patterns that are densely interwoven and enduring, and function across an entire society

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institutions

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These consists of two or more people who regularly interact and share a sense of unity and common identity, can be primary or secondary.

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social groups

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organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together constitute society

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social structure

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the position a person occupies in a particular setting, group or society

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status

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the smallest and most intimate level of social structure

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roles

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expected behaviors and beliefs from people with a particular status in the given social structure

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roles

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theoretical perspective that looks at society as if it were a machine. How it contributes to the stability of the whole.

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functionalism

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theory concerned with the unequal distribution of resources in society

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conflict theory

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how we as humans construct the social world and define meaning and value in it

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symbolic interaction

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The largest layer of the social structure, contains all the others

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society

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A social status based on income, occupational prestige and education

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socioeconomic status (SES)

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These theory is related to young people, it is the formation of identity is a learned response to social stimuli.

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Social Learning Theory

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Humans contract and define meaning and values in society through communication and shared ideas

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symbolic interaction

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A social category of people who share common language, nationality, religion, common norms/customs

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Ethnicity

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A group treated distinctly based on certain traits, physical characteristics such as skin color, face features, hair type or body type.

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Race

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Employing this theory will help to identify the differences in power and conflict by looking at the experiences of different genders

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Feminist theory

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One’s internal sense of being male or female, neither, both or another genders

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Gender identity

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Physical manifestation of one’s gender identity through clothing, hairstyle, voice, body shape etc.

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Gender expression

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The assigned and classification of people as male, female, intersex, or another sex based on anatomy, hormones, chromosomes.

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Sex assigned at birth