"Thinking Like a Sociologist" Chapter 1 pg. 4 - 25

Question 1

Sociological Imagination

Answer 1

The abilitiy to see the underlying societal causes of individual experiences and issues

Question 2

Society

Answer 2

a group of people who occupy a particular territory, feel they make up a unified and distinct entity, and share a standard set of assumptions about reality.

Question 3

Norms

Answer 3

The rules of expectations of behaviour people consider acceptable in thier group or society. Norms vary from one community to another and change over time.

Question 4

Values

Answer 4

A shared understanding of what a group or society considers suitable, right, or desirable; a way of viewing the world and attatching negative or positive comments. Values vary between communities and change over time.

Question 5

Social structure

Answer 5

Any enduring, predictable pattern of social relations among people in society that constrains and transforms people’s behaviour, shaping it to the requirments of the social situation

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

The shared lens of values and beliefs throughj which we view reality.

Question 7

Constraining power

Answer 7

The ability of a social institution to control people’s behaviour and increase their obedience to social norms, and to limit thier life chances and opportunities.

Question 8

Transformative power

Answer 8

The ability of a social institution or expereince to radically change people’s routine practice.

Question 9

Social institution

Answer 9

A social structure governed by stable patterns of rules and expectations. This includes family, school, church, economy, and polity.

Question 10

Social relationship

Answer 10

A pattern of continuing contact and communication between two more people that follows an expected pattern

custodians, and administrators are all goverend by different rules, but

Question 11

Status

Answer 11

The rights, duties, and lifestyle that people associate with a particular role in an institution or society.

Being a teacher or student defines ones status in an educational institu

Question 12

Role

Answer 12

The way people expect us to act in a social situation.

How we are expected to act as a man or woam, teacher, student…

Question 13

Interaction

Answer 13

A patterened exchange of information, judgement, confirmation, or emotion between at least two people in a social setting.

Question 14

Negotiation

Answer 14

An interaction whose goal is to define the expectations or boundaries of a relationship

Trying to make sense of one another by conferring, bargaining, compromis

Question 15

Conflict Theory

Answer 15

• Unequal distribution of wealth and power in a society
• Marx and Weber
• gender, sexual orientation, disability,class

Question 16

Functionalism

Answer 16

• The way social roles and institutions fit together to maintain social life and social stability
• Each part of society plays an essential and complmentary role
• Work together for societies survival
• strong ties to institutions can reduce crime

Question 17

Symbolic intractionism

Answer 17

• focuses on small group interactions
• Weber & Simmel
• When people act in the world they are responding to a reality they can see, wherther others see it or not

Question 18

Feminism

Answer 18

• Gender based inequality in our own and other societies & its effects on our social institutions
• how gender makes the lives of women and non binary people different than men
• gender roles assigned at birth
• people who fail to stay within thier gender role face consequences

Question 19

Symbolic violence

Answer 19

Nonphysical violence or harm perpetrated by the powerful against the powerless

Question 20

Intersectionality

Answer 20

social disadvantes related to ethnicity, class, gender, which creates complex interdependent systems of opression

Question 21

Skills gained from studying sociology

Answer 21

• all ab world we live in (current)
• gives you concepts with which to understand the world - building blocks for thoeries and explanations
• insight into classic thinking
• Gives you context for understanding an issue or situation
• critical thinking skills