Chapter 1
Ability to connect what is happening in your own life and lives of those around you to social patterns in the larger society.
Groups of theories that share certain common ways of "seeing" how society works.
What are "theoretical perspectives"?
"Men are far more sexually deviant than women" is this type of statement.
What is NORMATIVE?
Characteristics of a group or a society that make it distinct from other groups or societies.
What is "culture"?
A process of learning how to follow social norms and expectations in your society.
What is "socialization"?
Sociology is defined by this concept which means that individuals both SHAPE and are SHAPED by the society.
What is duality?
The only MICRO-level theoretical perspective we discussed in class?
What is symbolic interactionism?
Type of research that is directed at gaining fundamental knowledge about some issue.
What is "basic research"?
Expectations about the appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people in a variety of situations.
What are "social norms"?
What are any two of the following: family, media, church, school, peers.
Statements, based on scientific research and discarded with new information, that describe groups of people.
What are good generalizations?
"Communism is a solution to inequality" is a statement that comes from this perspective.
What is "conflict perspective"?
What is "quantitative research method"?
Cultural groups that exist within another, larger culture.
What are "subcultures"?
Characteristics by which we are known.
What is "social identity"?
What is good generalization?
Combination of conflict perspective with symbolic interactionism, which ties the idea that cultures are socially constructed to the theory of "haves" and "have nots".
What is "social constructionism"?
Predictions researchers make about what they will find in their research.
What are "hypotheses"?
A situation in which a woman does not want children, but society expects her to have them.
What is "role strain"?
Two core commitments of sociology that do not include words "stereotype" or "generalization" in them.
What are:
Using sociological eye to observe patterns.
Taking action to challenge those patterns.
This is an example of ________ ?
Honor code - no lying cheating or stealing data. Informed consent.
Hypothesis which notes that our language develops according to the needs of the culture.
What is "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis"?
Example of this process includes dressing baby girls in pink and baby boys in blue.
What is "gender socialization"?