Sociological Terms
This social science is the study of society, how people interact and social structures
What is Sociology?
This theory states that society is inherently unequal and that competition between social groups (races, genders, classes) leads to conflict, which leads to change.
What is conflict theory?
This type of group is characterized by close, personal, and long-lasting relationships, such as family and close friends.
What is the primary group?
The knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shard by the members of a society.
What is culture?
A position in a social structure that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned to a person.
What is ascribed status?
This is the term for a rule established by society that has varying degrees of sanctions if violated
What is Social Norm?
Someone studying how symbols communicate different things to different people is a _________________ theorist.
What is symbolic interaction theory?
The only type of group that children belong to that is an agent of socialization not controlled by adults.
What is the peer group?
A group of people who inhabit a specific territory and share a common culture?
What is a society?
A position in a social structure that is earned or chosen?
What is achieved status?
This term means to look at social life in a scientific, systematic way free from bias.
It includes seeing the general in the particular and the strange in the familiar.
What is the Sociological Perspective?
This theory focuses on how the elements of society work together to produce a stable social system.
What is structural functionalist theory?
Those people whose reactions are most important to your self-concept.
Who are significant others?
The term for rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms.
What is sanctions?
The informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught IN SCHOOL that prepare children for life.
What is the hidden curriculum?
These are the unintended functions of a social institution like a public library or school
Latent Functions
This theory argues that deviance occurs when there is a mismatch between culturally accepted goals and the legitimate means to achieve them
What is strain theory?
The term for people temporarily in the same place at the same time?
What is a social aggregate?
Ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence people's behavior.
What is non-material culture?
The cultural process of learning to participate in group life.
What is socialization?
The ability of individuals to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in society. Being able to view your own society as an "outsider"
What is the sociological imagination?
This theory states that your self image is based on what you believe others think of you.
What is the Looking Glass Self?
People who share only pare of their lives while focusing on a goal or task?
What is the secondary group?
The concrete, tangible objects of a culture.
What is material culture?
The theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts and norms to which they are exposed
What is differential association theory?