Laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals.
What are social facts?
200
This sociologist believed that using scientific methods to reveal the laws by which societies and individuals interact would usher in a new “positivist” age of
history.
Who was Auguste Comte?
200
Gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words--help people understand that world
What is symbols?
200
What describes the pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exists in the highest class segments of a society
What is High Culture?
200
The practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one's own culture
What is cultural relativism?
300
Feeling confused and unaccustomed to a culture.
What is culture shock?
300
This person rejected Comte's positivism and believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production.
Who was Karl Marx?
300
A social mindset of morals expected to be followed/conformed by a community as a guide for society to decide specific things such as what’s good or bad and what’s ugly or beautiful. As well as suggest the ideal way a person should act.
What is values?
300
Skinny jeans, chunky glasses, and T-shirts with vintage logos
What is an American Hipster?
300
In these parts of the world, it is considered normal for men to hold hands in friendship
What are Africa and the Middle East?
400
The term of thinking your culture is superior to all others
What is ethnocentrism?
400
This person believed that sociologists could study objective “social facts”. He also believed that through such studies it would be possible to determine if a society was “healthy” or “pathological.”
Who was Émile Durkheim?
400
"Breaching experiment”, is an experiment done by this person to study about social norms, evaluated by the reactions of people when faced by an action going against a social norm.
Who was Harold Garfinkel?
400
When something new opens up new ways of living and when new ideas enter a culture
What is Cultural Change?
400
In which the researcher behaves in a socially awkward manner in order to test the sociological concepts of social norms and conformity
What is the 'Breaching Experiment"?
500
This person described sociological imagination as as an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behaviour and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
500
This person and other like-minded sociologists proposed a philosophy of anti positivism whereby social researchers would strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values.
Who was Max Weber?
500
This hypothesis is based on the idea that people experience their world through their language and that they therefore understand their world through the culture embedded in their language
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
500
Relates to a similar process in the integration of international cultures
What is Diffusion?
500
As a class we acknowledged Gerold as our class mascot