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Emile Durkheim
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1858-1917: France
Suicide Rates: Catholics-most likely Protestants-most likely jewish-least likely |
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Structural Functional
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A frameowrk for ubuilding theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
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Global Perspective
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The study of the larger world and out society's place in it.
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High Income Countries
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United States
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Middle Income Countries
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Asia
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Low Income Countries
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Africa
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Latent Functions
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The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern.
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Manifest Functions
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The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern.
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Culture
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the values, beliefs, behavior, ad material objects that together form a people's way of life.
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Culture Shock
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Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.
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Culture Lag
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The fact tha some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system.
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Material Culture
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The tangible things created by members of a society.
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Nonmaterial Culture
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The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society.
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Norms
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Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
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Folkways
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Norms for routine or casual interaction. Ex)Opening a door for a woman.
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Mores
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Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance. Ex)pedophilia
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Multiculturalism
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An Educational program recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting the equality of all cultural traditions.
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Symbols
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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture.
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Language
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A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another.
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Cultural Transmission
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the process by which one generation passes culture to the next.
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Subculture
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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population.
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Counterculture
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cultural patterms that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society.
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Cultural Relativism
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The practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards.
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Ethnocentrism
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The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture.
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Peer Groups
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A social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common. Ex)Basketball team
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Anticipatory Socialization
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Learning that helps a person achieve a desired position. Ex)young kids talking in slang to fit in.
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Resocialization
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Radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the enviroment.
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Max Weber
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1864-1920 German sociologist. Emphasized the need to understand a setting from the point of view of the people.
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Herbert Spencer
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Body Metaphore & Social Darwinism
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C. Wright Mills
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Change people & Change society.
Society, not peoples fallings is the cause of social prolem. |
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Sigmund Freud
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Turned to the study of personality and mental disorder then to the theory of psychoanalysis.
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Jean Piaget
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studied human cognition, or how people think
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Harry Harlow
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Studied monkeys and isolation
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Built on Piaget's work in studying moral resoning. Moral Development
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Carol Gilligan
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The Gender Factor. Compared moral development of girls and boys and concluded that the two sexes use different standards of rightness.
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George Herbert Mead
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The Social Self-used to explain how social experience creates individual personality.
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Erick Erickson
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8 Stages of Development
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