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Test 1 - Soc Flashcards

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Sociology

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Study of society, of peoples behaviors in groups, interaction in groups and study of social institutions

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Sociological Imagination

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Understanding one’s own SELF means we have to understand the relationship between SELF and SOCIETY

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Wright Mills

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says sociological imagination is at intersection of history and biography

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Public

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Issues that affect large number of people and have their origins in the institutional

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Private

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Private problems experienced w/in the character of the individual

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Social Structure

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How society is organized economically, ideology, and politically

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Social institution

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Complex group of interdependent positions that preform a social role and reproduce themselves over time
-Key for socialization

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Social norms

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agreed upon standards for determining bad and good

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Socialization

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Process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society

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Culture

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Shared beliefs, values, and practices tat participants must learn to be a part of society

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Functionalism

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theory that various social institutions and process in society exist to serve some important function to keep society running

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Symbolic interactionism

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Micro-level theory in which shared meaning and assumptions form basic motivations behind people’s actions

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Sociocentric

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Identify from a group

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Egocentric

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Person identify outside of a group

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Ethnocentrism

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the idea that your culture is superior to any other culture

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Cultural relativism

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Not judging a culture to our own standards, all cultures are the same

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Subcultures

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Distinct cultural values and behavioral pattern of a particular group in society
- united by set of concepts

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Occupational (subcultures)

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Professional wrestler
Musician
Police

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Social (subcultures)

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Goth
Hipsters
Punks

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Generations (subcultures)

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Gen Z
Gen X
Millennials

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Ideology

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System of ideas, beliefs, and principle that reflect, shape, and constrain our beliefs and behaviors
- Embedded in culture and links society and culture together

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Media

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Any formats, platforms, or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information

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Mass Media

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Made for large broad of people
- Culture and Media linked together

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Hegemony

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Historical process in which a dominant group wins approval for their action by consent rather than coercion

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Political Economy of the Media

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Politics and economy are entirely entwined

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Status

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a position in society that comes with a set of expectations

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Abscribe status

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one we are born with that is unlikely to change
- gender and race

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Achieved status

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one we earned through individuals effort or that is imposed by others
- Student and child

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Master status

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A status that seems to override all other and affects all other statuses that he or she possesses
- Felon

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Roles

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Behaviors expected from a particular status

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Primary Stage

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  • Caregiver
  • Peers
  • Teachers
  • Coaches
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Secondary Stage

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  • College experience
  • Traveling
  • Workplace
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Group Stage

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  • Peer groups
  • Subcultures
  • How we dress and talk
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Organizational

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  • Workplace
  • Schools
  • Larger things that are forcing us together
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Forced Stage

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  • Prison
  • Military
  • Total institutions
  • All socialization happens in ONE SPACE
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Agents of Socialization

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  • Legal System
  • Workplace
  • Educational system
  • Peers
  • Family
  • Media
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Deviance

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Collection of actions, behaviors, conditions that society disvalues/find offensive

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Conflict Theory

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Idea that conflict between competing interest is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general

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Labeling Theory

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Society creates deviance
- Offenders are not born… they’re made

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Strain Theory

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Deviance occurs when a society fails to give all its members qual ability to achieve socially acceptable goals

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Conformity

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Accepts approved goals, purpose them through approved means

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Innovation

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Accepts approved goals but uses disapproving means

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Ritualism

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Abandons society’s goals but conforms to approved means

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Retreatism

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Abandons approved goals and approved means

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Rebellion

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Challenges approve goals and approved means (replace)

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