Vocab
A theory that views society as a complex but orderly and stable system.
What is Structural functionalism?
Who made up the Conflict Theory?
What is Karl Marx and Max Weber?
Objects associated with a cultural group
What is material culture?
Freud proposed what?
The mind is divided into three components: id, ego, and superego,
Not acting as the "Norm"
What is deviance?
Values and Norms changing over time
What is Symbolic Interaction?
What is Postmodern theory?
What is Diversity of Human experience?
The ideas associated with a cultural group.
What is symbolic culture?
One in which we learn who we are through our interactions with others.
What is the looking glass self?
Is being deviant necessary?
Yes
Our self-image is shaped by how we believe others perceive us.
What is looking glass self?
Difference between Value and Norms?
Norms us behavior and attitude that is considered normal. Values are things that people consider important.
The idea that language structures thought
What is Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
What was Mead's theory?
One's identity emerges out of external social interactions and internal feelings of oneself.
5 types of deviance?
conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion
A behavior, trait, or belief that departs from a norm and generates a negative reaction in a particular group.
What is Deviance?
Who conceived the Symbolic Interactionism Theory?
What is George Herbert Mead?
The values, norms and practices of the group within a society that is most powerful
What is Dominant Culture?
What was Goffman's Theory?
The self was not a fixed thing that resides within individuals but a social process
Individuals who accept society's approved goals but not society's means to achieve them.
What is an Innovator?
Values and norms that tend to represent and protect the interests of the powerful groups in society
What is conflict theory?
What is cultural relativism?
Not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong.
Difference between Qualitative and Quantitative research
Qualitative is explains the attitudes and behaviors of the market in detail.
Quantitive is discovering who, what when and where?
Status embodied by physical characteristics
What is embodies status?
What did Emile Durkheim contribute to sociology?
He helped define and establish the field of sociology as an academic discipline.