society Flashcards
Industrial Revolution
Massive change in agriculture and manufacturing in English during the 18th/19th centuries.
Values
What is accepted and what is not
Norms
How people should behaviours and act
Macro Sociology and Micro Sociology
Macro Study of society as a whole, studies population and social systems like religion.
It’s both structural function and conflict theory
Micro studies the roles and interaction of an individual or small group of people. They can study the role and belief of one person.
It s a symbolic interaction theory.
Functionalist Theory
Institutions work together to serve the basic needs of society and for the common good.
They work together to provide stability and social order
Like school and politics
Conflict Theory
Conflict theory agrees the institute were originally develop to meet basic needs but over time it has to come to serve the interest of a small group society ( the wealthy)
Symbolic Interactionist Theory
It focuses on relationships among individuals within society. Its a
micro theory level.
Social Darwinism
Theory that human evolved from apes
Every generation they are more people that produced that will survive
People with heritable traits are more likely to survive.
When reproductive isolation happens they are new spices that will form.
Survival of the fittest
Helping the poor is wrong because they would die off if left to nature.
Eugenics
A movement that advocate for improvement of the human society y selective breeding or forced sterilization
Its a latin word for good at birth
It was developed by albert eugenics who sterilized over 2822 unfit individuals.
Isolate and Feral Children
Feral Unwanted children, at a young age, that are raised by animals, have behaviors like the animals in which animal they were raised by.
Isolate child raised in near isolation in a human household,
4 Forces that shape Human Behaviour
Family
Gender
Culture
Media
4 Forms of Child Abuse
- Physical
-Involves physical harm. - Sexual
-When and adult/peer touches a child sexually - Neglect
-Failure to provide physical or emotional needs for life - Emotional
-Repeated criticism of subjecting a child to an unhappy environment.
6 Agents of Socialization
- Family can teach them values and acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in the world. They can be role models and this the most important agents.
- School gives kids between the ages of 5-6 knowledge and values, assumes greater importance in society, teaches them teamwork, self-reliance, obedience.
- Peer groups friends, schoolmates, gives you approval, teaches you about sexual relationships.
- Media influences what we wear, how we act, what we believe in.
- The workplace kids first learn about work through chores and observation, and understand the role of a parent.
- Religion offers moral codes, standards of behavior and teaches the importance of charity.
Monogamy
Its having a relationship or marriage with only one person
One men or one women or same sex marriage
Polygamy
A husband or wife has multiple relationships at once.
They can legally have 2 or more members
Polyandry
One women and 2 or more men
Polygyny
One men and 2 or more women
Arranged Marriage
Exchange of property
The parents are very involved in the process of marriage.
matrilineal
A kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through their mothers.
patrilineal
A kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through their fathers.
Bilineal
A kinship system in which people trace their ancestry through both their mothers and fathers.
Clans
A group of several lineages in a patrilineal society in which people are related but cannot always trace exact relationships.
Lineage
A group of people tracing they ancestors.
3 elements of Culture
1.values
2. Norms
3.symbols
