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40 Cards in this Set
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Sociology (p. 5
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the study of human behavior in society
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Conflict theory ( p. 25
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competition for scarce resources
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Generalized other ( p. 20
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Gerog Herbert Mead, a person notion of the common values, norms and expectations of people in society
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Globalization ( p. 26)
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interconnects conflicts and connections from all over the world, dynamic webs that connect between different people
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Latent functions ( p. 24)
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hidden and unintended but important
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Macro level analysis ( p. 26)
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examines large-scale institutional processes
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Manifest functions ( p. 24)
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intended functions the obvious functions, college degree
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Mechanical solidarity ( p. 17
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life is uniform and people are similar, they share a common sense of culture and morality, Dirkheim
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Micro level analysis (p. 26):
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focuses on the way people construct identities from memberships in groups
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Modernism (p. 30)
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abiding faith in the idea of progress
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Multiculturalism (p. 26):
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the understanding of many cultures
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Organic solidarity
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): people who are interdependent
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Paradigm
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): a coherent model of how society works and how individuals are socialized into their roles within it. (Parsons)
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Structural Functionalism
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theory that social life consisted of several distinct integrated levels that enable the world and individuals who are within it, to find stability order and meaning. (parsons)
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Leader (p. 78
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someone in charge
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Hardcore Member (p. 78
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): those who a great deal of power to make policy decisions always spend a lot of time with the group
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Looking- glasses self (p. 66)
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the process by which our identity develops (Cooley)
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Symbolic Interactions (p. 23
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looks at how an individual’s interactions with his or her environment (Georg Herbert Mead)
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Counter Culture:
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subcultures based on difference and opposition to the dominant culture
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Cultural capital
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symbolic resource that can be exchanged to justify dominance
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Cultural diffusion (p. 58):
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which means the spreading of new ideas through society; independent of population movement
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Cultural diversity (p. 39):
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the world's cultures are different from eachother
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Culture Shock:
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feeling of disorientation when we experience a new culture
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Cultural imperialism 57
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deliberate imposition of one countries culture on another
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Cultural relativism (p. 40):
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s position that all cultures are equally valid in the experience of their own members vs. ethnocentrism (believing that your culture is omnipotent)
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Cultural universal (p. 52
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): rituals, customs and symbols are relative in society
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Culture (p. 38)
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): a set of values that put appropriate and inappropriate in perspective
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Material Culture
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things people make (tools/environment)
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Non-Material Culture
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: ideals and beliefs
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Sub Culture:
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: people within the big culture that have different beliefs than dominate culture
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Culture lag (p. 58):
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Ogburn, gap between technology and material culture and its social beliefs and material culture and its social beliefs
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Master status
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Huges
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Network (p. 81
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a type of group that is both looser and denser than a formal group. Simmel used the word ‘web’ to describe this
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Normative organization (p. 84):
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are typically voluntary organizations, members receive monetary rewards and often have to pay to joinlarge secondary groups that are designed to accomplish specific tasks in an efficient manner
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Organization (p. 84):
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large secondary groups that are designed to accomplish specific tasks in an efficient manner
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Out- group (p. 76):
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): is a group that you don’t feel belonging to or you do not feel positively toward
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In Group (p. 76):
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a group you feel positive with and you feel like you belong in it.
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Primary group (p. 75):
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groups that come together for expressive reasons
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Reference group (p. 77
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): a group toward which we are so strongly committed or one that commands prestige that we orient our actions around what we perceive that group’s action would be
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Role (p. 72
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): are sets of behaviors that are expected of a person who occupies a certain status
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