Soci final Flashcards
Sociological Imagination?
The ABILITY to see the impact of SOCIAL FORCES on individuals especially in there private lives.
What are shaped by social forces?
Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors.
Social forces ?
Race, Gender, social class
Sociology is?
The science that explains the behavior of humans by referencing to the CONSEQUINCES of society, social groups, and social forces.
Characteristics of science?
Observation
Objective
Testing
Prediction
What is Empirical Phenomenona
Can be experienced through one of the senses.
When scientists exam in what people think they are doing…
We challenge COMMON SENDE NOTIONS about the world and people.
What are instincts?
Tendencies to act that are…
Present at birth
Inate and unlearned
Common to all members.
Intuition
When a person analyses the environment unconsciously.
Society is not a —— it’s a ——-
It not a they
A major theme
Common conditions called FUNCTIONAL PREREQUISITES
Functional prereq
Achieved in a society to SURVIVE THROUGHOUT TIME
Pattern maintenance
CREATING, TRANSMITTING, and MAINTAINING
Socialization
Process of inculcating the NORMS VALUES AND OTHER CULTURE SHMBOLS. Puts the society in the individual
Norm
Rules For behavior
Ex. One should not steel