Sciences and Sociologists!
The study of human society, group dynamics, social structures, institutions, and how people interact within collective groups.
What is Sociology?
Your first step when conducting research:
What is the problem?
Using genetics to determine personality:
What is the Biological Theory, or nature?
agent of socialization usually has the strongest influence during early childhood
What is the family?
An over simplified belief about a group of people
What is a stereotype?
This social science is the most scientific, and deals more with the individual
What is Psychology?
Theory that states there are groups of people who have money, resources and power, and those who do not
What is Conflict Theory
the belief that your personality comes from experiences and surroundings
What is Environmental Theory, or nuture?
Shared expectations for behavior in a group
What are social norms?
A type of leader that Makes decisions with little group input
What is an authoritarian leader
This American Social Scientist studied the black communities of Philadelphia, wrote “The Souls of Black Folk”and believed that race was an issue that the United States needed to address:
Who was WEB DuBois?
when a researcher is observing a subject from another room without the subject’s knowledge
What is Natural Observation?
A set of expectations for a given social position or status
What is a social role?
agent of socialization that teaches knowledge, social rules and working with peers.
What is school?
Automatic attitudes people may not realize they have
What is implicit or unconscious bias?
social scientist believed that society was affected strongly by the competition between those who have and control resources, such as food, money and power, and those who do not
Who was Karl Marx
This theory studies groups as part of a whole unit; that social groups act as “living organisms.”
What is Structural Functionallism?
Developing your self image by imagining how others evaluate or see you.
What is looking glass self theory?
Two or more people who interact and share common interests
What is a group?
A way of life that includes values, beliefs, behaviors, and material traits of a group of people
What is culture?
Sociologist that believed: Only the fittest societies would survive over time, leading to a general upgrading of the world as a whole, or Social Darwinism
Who was Herbert Spencer?
Using Data and information from previous studies and experiments
What is secondary analysis?
A student who works a part time job, or a person who has been promoted to a supervisory position over former co-workers are examples.
What is role conflict?
A group a person feels accepted into.
What is an in group?
primary cultural unit of society, serving as the core engine for transmitting identity, values, and behavioral rules across generations.
What is the family?