Test 1 - Soc Flashcards
Sociology
Study of society, of peoples behaviors in groups, interaction in groups and study of social institutions
Sociological Imagination
Understanding one’s own SELF means we have to understand the relationship between SELF and SOCIETY
Wright Mills
says sociological imagination is at intersection of history and biography
Public
Issues that affect large number of people and have their origins in the institutional
Private
Private problems experienced w/in the character of the individual
Social Structure
How society is organized economically, ideology, and politically
Social institution
Complex group of interdependent positions that preform a social role and reproduce themselves over time
-Key for socialization
Social norms
agreed upon standards for determining bad and good
Socialization
Process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society
Culture
Shared beliefs, values, and practices tat participants must learn to be a part of society
Functionalism
theory that various social institutions and process in society exist to serve some important function to keep society running
Symbolic interactionism
Micro-level theory in which shared meaning and assumptions form basic motivations behind people’s actions
Sociocentric
Identify from a group
Egocentric
Person identify outside of a group
Ethnocentrism
the idea that your culture is superior to any other culture
Cultural relativism
Not judging a culture to our own standards, all cultures are the same
Subcultures
Distinct cultural values and behavioral pattern of a particular group in society
- united by set of concepts
Occupational (subcultures)
Professional wrestler
Musician
Police
Social (subcultures)
Goth
Hipsters
Punks
Generations (subcultures)
Gen Z
Gen X
Millennials
Ideology
System of ideas, beliefs, and principle that reflect, shape, and constrain our beliefs and behaviors
- Embedded in culture and links society and culture together
Media
Any formats, platforms, or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information
Mass Media
Made for large broad of people
- Culture and Media linked together
Hegemony
Historical process in which a dominant group wins approval for their action by consent rather than coercion
Political Economy of the Media
Politics and economy are entirely entwined
Status
a position in society that comes with a set of expectations
Abscribe status
one we are born with that is unlikely to change
- gender and race
Achieved status
one we earned through individuals effort or that is imposed by others
- Student and child
Master status
A status that seems to override all other and affects all other statuses that he or she possesses
- Felon
Roles
Behaviors expected from a particular status
Primary Stage
- Caregiver
- Peers
- Teachers
- Coaches
Secondary Stage
- College experience
- Traveling
- Workplace
Group Stage
- Peer groups
- Subcultures
- How we dress and talk
Organizational
- Workplace
- Schools
- Larger things that are forcing us together
Forced Stage
- Prison
- Military
- Total institutions
- All socialization happens in ONE SPACE
Agents of Socialization
- Legal System
- Workplace
- Educational system
- Peers
- Family
- Media
Deviance
Collection of actions, behaviors, conditions that society disvalues/find offensive
Conflict Theory
Idea that conflict between competing interest is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general
Labeling Theory
Society creates deviance
- Offenders are not born… they’re made
Strain Theory
Deviance occurs when a society fails to give all its members qual ability to achieve socially acceptable goals
Conformity
Accepts approved goals, purpose them through approved means
Innovation
Accepts approved goals but uses disapproving means
Ritualism
Abandons society’s goals but conforms to approved means
Retreatism
Abandons approved goals and approved means
Rebellion
Challenges approve goals and approved means (replace)
