Sociobiology Flashcards
Social constructionism
When individuals create their own social reality
Symbolic interactionism
Social determination of shared realities
Symbols
Reasonable expectation of how other people behave and what constitutes appropriate responses
Filunctionalism
Factions of society work together to maintain stability
Conflict theory
You society competes out of own self interest rather than societal equilibrium
Culture
Believes, assumptions, objects and behavior
Material culture
All things and objects the archaeologist might find after culture dies out
Nonmaterial culture
Assumptions values believes equal shared ideas
Social norm
Expectations that govern what behavior is acceptable within a group
Social group
A group of people that maintain interactions because values ideas are shared by them
society
People sharing elements of culture in one community
Social institution
Hierarchal Systems that brings order To interpersonal interactions. Structuring society.
government/ economy
government provides services to society and enforcing laws. economy services to the needs of society. both form a structured society.
Education
Provide provide formal structure from childhood to adulthood
Religion
The system of beliefs for a higher being
Families
Consists of bonds of kin and marriage
Demographics
Statistics used to examine nature of a specific population by qualifying subsets of the population for example age and gender race ethnicity sexual orientation and immigration status
Demographic transition
Decrease in birth and death rates as a society becomes industrialized
Social movement
Group of people who’s share ideology and worked together towards a specific goal
Spatial inequality
unequal access to resources and variable quality-of-life affected by income unemployment and on equal access to resources
Global inequality
Disparities between regions and nation in aspects such as gross, National product natural resources and access to healthcare
Environmental justice
Equal treatment of all people with regard to prevention and relief from Health and environmental hazards.
Residential segregation
Local scale separation of demographic groups in certain neighborhoods
Social class
Is a stratification system that groups people And social standing associated with socioeconomic status.
