Theories & Perspectives
Foundations
Social Formations
Race & Ethnicity
The Society
100
The social science that studies human society and social behavior (groups of people)
What is sociology
100
Shared products of human groups-physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors of shared groups
What is culture
100

What is the difference between nature and nurture

Nature is DNA. Nurture-how you are raised

100

the tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard

Ethnocentrism

100

What is the first universal social institution

What is family

200
Theoretical perspective - competition over scarce resources is at the basis of social conflict
What is conflict perspective
200
Anything that represents something else-meaning must be agreed upon
What is a symbol
200
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society
What is socialization
200
Race is more: Physical or cultural?
What is physical
200

What basic needs do families fulfill? (there are 4)

What are- Reproduction, Socialization, Economic and Emotional Security

300

Founder of the Hull House and Settlement Movement

Jane Addams

300
Material culture or non-material culture? Something you can touch, or hold.
What is material culture
300

shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

norms

300

process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominant culture

assimilation

300
Interactive process through which individuals learn basic skills, values, beliefs, and behaviors of society
What is socialization
400

Theoretical perspective- focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society

What is Symbolic / interactionist perspective

400
Material or non-material culture? Ideas, languages, beliefs
What is non-material culture
400
Period between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood
What is adolescence
400
Discrimination has to do with behaviors or attitudes?
What are behaviors
400

Who came up with the sociological imagination?

C. Wright Mills

500
Theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together.
What is functionalist perspective
500
A group of interdependent people who have organized in such as way as to share a common culture
What is society
500

Considered the "father" of Sociology

Auguste Comte

500

A group of people who are singled out and unequally
treated based on physical or cultural characteristics that differ from dominant group

Minority group

500

The study of large-scale patterns and processes that characterize society as a whole.

What is macrosociology?

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