Sociology Unit 1 Test Flashcards
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Believes that language is determinant of culture
Social Sanctions
A method of reinforcing social norms
Taboo
Behavior that brings negative sanctions
Mores
Strict rules dictating ethical and moral behavior
What are people who study Sociology called?
Sociologists
What are the four requirements for deviant behavior?
- Violation of a social norm
- Violator
- Audience
- Negative sanction
What six groups do Sociologists work with?
- Large organizations
- Small groups
- Political institutions
- Religious institutions
- Social movements
- Deviant behavior
Functionalism
Theory that claims subgroups work together to form society
Conflict theory
Theory that claims conflict between subgroups are what forms society
What are the two types of sanctions?
Positive and negative
What sex has the highest rate of suicide?
Males
What demographic has the highest rate of suicide?
Native American Teenagers
Enlightenment
18-19th Century European ideals of humans being able to solve social problems
Verstehen
The process of understanding social behavior from the POV of those participating in it (understanding human behavior)
What is human behavior shaped by?
Social structures
What is sociology the science of?
Society
Who wrote about the difference between troubles and issues?
Mills Wright
What Brit wrote “Society in America”?
Harriet Martineau
What do families exist for?
Social and physical reproduction
What are manifest functions?
Actions that have obvious, external, intentional effects on society
What are latent functions?
Actions that have hidden, dormant effects on society
What are beliefs?
Shared ideas in a culture
What are norms?
Expectations of how to react in a given scenario
What is cultural diffusion?
Spreading one culture to another
What is cultural hegemony?
One culture having a disproportionate impact on others
What is cultural relativism?
The idea that something can only be explained through its cultural context
What is Ethnomethodolgy?
Technique for studying human norms by disrupting what is normal, and seeing how normal is returned to.
What are values?
Abstract standards in a society
What is a demographic?
A population you serve, a structure of a society
What are the four concentrations of Sociology at KSU?
- Culture and Social Change
- Medical Sociology
- Criminology
- General Sociology
What are the types of sanctions?
Positive and negative
Who decides the norms of society?
Society
What is stereotyping?
Judgement of a group based on an individual’s appearances
What was Helen’s teacher’s name?
Anne Sullivan
What is the first word that Helen signed into her mother’s hand?
“Teacher”
How did Marx think to solve conflict in society?
Through the elimination of capitalism
What is the difference between a subculture and a counterculture?
Countercultures can’t exist peacefully in society, subcultures can
