Sociology Flashcards
the process of realizing one’s full potential.
self-actualization
a collection of beliefs about oneself and can include academic performance, gender roles, sexuality, and racial identity
Self-efficacy or self-identity
______________ is the degree to which we see ourselves as being capable at a given skill or in a given situation. Can results ______________ if placed in a hopeless scenario.
Self-efficacy; learned helplessness
the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
Self-awareness
main areas of the cerebral cortex responsible for speech production, facial neuron control, and language processing.
“B”uilding words.
Broca’s Area
Refers to the memory of events after an event
Anterograde memory
Refers to memories before an event
Retrograde memory
A macro perspective that works to maintain dynamic equilibrium.
Functionalism Theory
A macro perspective theory that speaks about struggles for resources in social class, emphasizes the role of coercion and power in producing social order.
Conflict theory
Focuses on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interactions. Smoking is an excellent example because the social symbolism of smoking is a point of contention across social groups.?
Symbolic Interactionism
Modernization increase what in expense of decreasing what ?
Increase social progression in expense of decreasing tradition.
If a religious institution loses influences or power, what can occur?
Secularization.
What is a reaction of secularization ?
Fundamentalism, a renewed adherence to previous practices m
When a religious doctrine is internalized and incorporated into an individuals life.
Religiosity
Unintended results of a social structure. (IE : a student after an extracurricular activity changes their perspective.)
Latent functions
Intended purpose of a social structure
Manifest functions
When social reality is created through interpersonal interactions so that meanings and behaviors are shared and expected respectively.
Social constructionism theory
Sick role theory says
If you’re sick, you do not have to work.
When an epidemiologist examines the simulation effect of psychological , biological and sociocultural factors across a lifetime.
Studying life course approach
The opposite of secularization, it entails a strictly literal interpretation of sacred writings
Fundamentalism
