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Soc 197 exam 1 terms Flashcards

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The study of the mind and behavior

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Psychology

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The systematic study of social behavior and human groups

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Sociology

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The systematic study of peoples’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in social contexts

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Social psychology

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The three ways to use sociological imagination

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Seeing the general in the particular, seeing the strange in the familiar and seeing the influence of structure and agency

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Seeing the general in the particular

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We tend to focus on particular problems or see our problems as particular to ourselves

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Seeing the strange in the familiar

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It is easy for us to point out aspects of our social life that are familiar or normal to us. But really, when we think about things from an outsider’s point of view, many aspects of our social world can be considered strange

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Seeing the influence of structure and agency

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We can make our own choices about how to look (agency), but the media is a powerful structure that clearly tells us what looks or body types are considered beautiful in our society (structure)

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Individual actions and choices

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Agency

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Social relationships and institutions that constrain or condition our choices and actions

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Structure

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3 elements of culture

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Symbols, norms, values and beliefs

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Anything that carries a specific meaning recognized by people who share a common culture

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symbols

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A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another

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Language

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Rules and expectations for behavior maintained by society

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Norms

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Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good or beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living

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Values

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Specific ideas that people hold to be true

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Beliefs

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The practice of tuning in to how the social world works

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sociological mindfulness

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Having a mental inclination to see the world and things in it in a particular way

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Bias

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The failure to see the social world as humanly made; the tendency to see the human made world as having a will and force of its own apart from humans

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Reification

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Exists only because of ideas and ways of doing things devised ages ago by human beings struggling to survive
Made of patterns of activity

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The social world

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Ways we act that are followed from before our time, learned ways to act

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Patterns

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The world is created based on things that have been followed or made rules by people, everything is created by people, things are the way they are because of people

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Socially constructed

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We connect with others the way we do because of the context in which we do it. If we are sociologically mindful, we see that we cannot go through the world disconnected from others, no matter how alone we might feel at times

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Interdependence

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The way we see things, the way others see things

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Points of view

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Ways in which people interact and communicate with each other

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Social interactions

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A person’s inability or unwillingness to think critically about, or even perceive the social world

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Blind spots

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How to think about or perceive reality, learning to see the world as it is for the people themselves in their different categories

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The logic of or process of classification

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The process of us as humans putting together and separating things we experience into distinct categories; two different types: lumping and splitting

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“Islands of meaning”

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Grouping “similar” items together in a single mental cluster or category

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“Lumping”

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Separating in our mind “different” mental clusters from one another

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“Splitting”

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The process by which a society, culture or group teaches individuals how to become functioning members

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Socialization

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what goals does socialization teach?

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Member skills necessary to satisfy basic needs and defend against danger; individual norms, values, beliefs associated with their culture

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The process of learning what is the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society

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secondary socialization

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Things that are built by society

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Social structure

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A system of symbols that members of a culture use for representation and communication

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Language

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Any object, gesture, or word that becomes an abstract representation of something else

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Symbols

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The way things have been done that we pick up from society

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Tradition

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The idea that the individual can only reflect on and form images of themselves through the imaginary adoption of someone else’s perspective

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Looking-glass self

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Individual imagines how they must appear to someone, imagines how that person must be judging their appearance and behavior, the individual feels pride or shame

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Steps of the looking glass self

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The subject component; the experience of a spontaneous, active, and creative part of ourselves, somewhat less socialized

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I

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The object component (how we imagine others see us) - The experience of a norm-abiding, conforming part of ourselves, more socialized and therefore more reliant on others

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Me (aka Mine or My)

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The part of personality composed of self-awareness and self-image

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The self

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Non verbal symbols that help people communicate

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Gestures

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Attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole

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Generalized other

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Social pressures that force people to do things/make people do things

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Social control

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Play involves taking on the role of only one other person while games involve taking on the role of many people in a group

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Play vs games

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Things that we do not intend to come from our actions but do

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Unintended consequences

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Things that point to, refer to, or represent else

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Indexes

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The meanings we give to ourselves and announce ourselves

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Identity

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Knowing how to act to be a safe and useful participant in social life

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Self-regulation

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Imputations based primarily on information gleaned from the appearance or behavior of others and from the time and location of their action

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Social identities

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When individuals claim or assert an identity

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Personal identities

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The primary way in which homeless people announce their personal identity

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identity talk

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Distancing, embracement, fictive storytelling

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3 generic patterns of identity talk

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Associational distancing, role distancing, institutional distancing

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3 types of distancing

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Distancing themselves from associates when they are negatively evaluated

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Associational distancing

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A self conscious attempt to foster the impression of a lack of commitment or attachment to a particular role in order to deny the self implied

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Role distancing

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The derogation of the caretaker agencies that attended to the needs of the homeless; Complaining about such settings create psychic distance from the self-implied and secure some level of personal autonomy

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Institutional distancing

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Role embracement, associational embracement, ideological embracement

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3 types of embracement

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Typically manifested itself by the avowal and acceptance of street role identities

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Role embracement

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Reference to oneself as a friend or as an individual who takes his or her own social relationships seriously

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Associational embracement

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An ideology or an alternative reality and the avowal of a personal identity that is cognitively congruent with that ideology

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Ideological embracement

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Embellishment and fantasizing

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2 types of fictive storytelling

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The exaggeration of past or present experiences with fanciful and fictitious particulars so as to assert a positive personal identity

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Embellishment

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Involves the articulation of fabrications about the speaker’s future
Place the narrator in positively framed situations that seem far removed from, if at all connected to, his or her past and present

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Fantasizing

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A self identity that arises out of the experience of sudden celebrity and the attending treatment by fans, media, and others

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Glorified self

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Emerges when team members perceive how others treat them and subsequently form reactions to that treatment

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Reflected self

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Emerges when team members perceive portrayals of themselves in that national spotlight; this experience causes them to develop more “salient” media selves

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Media self

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Presentation of self: a person’s efforts to create specific impressions in the mind of others

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Goffman’s definition of self

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The study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance

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Dramaturgy

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An agreement with others about “what is going on” in a given circumstance

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Defining the situation

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A shared definition of the situation

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Working consensus

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The effort to control the impressions we make on others so that they form a desired view of us and the situation

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Impression management

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When the individual employs strategies and tactics to project their own projections

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defensive practices

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When a participants employs them to save the definition of the situation projected by another

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Corrective practices

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