Sociology

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

• society (a group)
• broader

Question 2

Psychology

Answer 2

• Single individual
• unique situation

Question 3

Suicide

Answer 3

• every 17 min. In the United States

Question 4

Anomie

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• Opposite of social cohesion
• loss of shared values among members of a society.

Question 5

Macro

Answer 5

Bigger group

Question 6

Micro

Answer 6

Smaller group

Question 7

Norms

Answer 7

• how to behave in particular situations and places
• some rules are serious, others aren’t
• established rules/behavior of conduct

Question 8

Folkways (not so serious norms)

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• everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences
  Ex: deodorant, holding doors.

Question 9

Mores

Answer 9

• strongly held norms w/ moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences

Question 10

Laws

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standardized norms that been enacted by legislators

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

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Assumption that one’s culture is superior than another

Question 12

Cultural relativism

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Views and analyzes another culture in terms of that cultures own values and standards.

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Structural functionalism

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What holds society together

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Conflict theory

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Conflict and competition between people and groups attempting to advance their own interest.

Question 15

Symbolic interaction

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Micro sociology: studies people interacting with one another and the meaning attached to these interactions.

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Culture shock

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Anxiety people experience when they encounter cultured radically different from their own

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Culture lag

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gap between the technical development of a society and its values and beliefs

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Material vs non material

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• physical / tangible creations. Members of a society make, use, and share
• abstract/ tangible human creations (attitudes, beliefs, values) that influence people’s behavior

Question 19

Subculture

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Groups that are perceived to deviate from the normative standards of the dominant culture.

Question 20

Countercultures

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• Beatniks of the 1950’s
• Hippies of the 1960’s

Question 21

Herbert Spencer

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• evolutionary perspective on social order and social change
• Social Darwinism

Question 22

Social Darwinism

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• Social classes explained by biological factors
• then best adapted to successful competition within the environment prosper
• poorly adapted the poor

Question 23

August Comte

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• founder of sociology
• positivism: world is best understood through scientific inquiry
  Bias-free, objective knowledge was attainable through science

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Emilie Durkheim

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• structural functionalism: share similar morals/beliefs
• suicide: cohesiveness in society
• anomie: loss of dusted value in a society
• the role of religion

Question 25

Max Weber

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• bureaucracy: manage an organization

Question 26

Value free sociology

Answer 26

Should exclude personal values and economic interest