This is the preferred method of study used by anthropologists.
What is participant observation?
100
This is the preferred method of study used by sociologists.
What is statistical analysis?
100
The school of thought that believes that by controlling the way in which humans learn behaviour, society can have an influence on their personalities.
What is learning theory?
100
A method of tracing and organizing families through the father's line.
What is patrilineal?
100
The term used to describe our position in an institution.
What is status?
200
This school of thought believes that the technology and economy of a culture must be examined to truly understand a culture.
What is cultural materialism?
200
This school of thought focuses on sex and gender issues, and believes that most societies' value systems are sexist and dysfunctional.
What is Feminism?
200
The school of thought that believes that we can predict and control human behaviour by identifying the factors that motivate it.
What is Behaviourism?
200
A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be a family.
What is kinship?
200
Using multiple disciplines together to examine and explain a certain event.
What is an interdisciplinary approach?
300
This is the fieldwork of anthropologists; the scientific study of races and cultures.
What is ethnography?
300
The school of thought whose central approach is that sociologists must recognize the ethnic diversity within societies by studying the experiences of all ethnic groups.
What is Inclusionism?
300
According the Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the part of the unconscious mind that encourages us to seek physical satisfaction.
What is the id?
300
Customary types of behaviour that is considered to be standard behaviour for a certain role in society.
What are norms?
300
The psychological phenomena that helps explain why people don't get involved in uncomfortable situations, even when someone else could be in danger.
What are the bystander effect and the diffusion of responsibility?
400
This school of thought believes that society is a logical institution that functions in the best interest of the majority.
What is Functionalism?
400
The school of thought that maintains that economic power, which is the basis of political power, is the key to understanding societies.
What is Neo-Marxism?
400
The psychological school of thought that believes that people are innately good.
What is Humanism?
400
The re-socialization and re-education of inmates.
What is rehabilitation?
400
The very top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which very few people actually reach.
What is self-actualization?
500
This school of thought says that all cultures develop complex rules based on the principle of binary opposites.
What is Structuralism?
500
The school of thought that believes that it is how we as individuals process and interpret what we observe in society that form the core of our value system. We attach our own meanings to stimuli this way.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
500
B.F. Skinner's theory that uses positive and negative reinforcement to control learned behaviour.
What is operant conditioning?
500
What racial and ethnic minorities are gradually absorbed into the culture of the majority.
What is assimilation?
500
The psychologist who used a dog and a bell to prove his theory of classical conditioning.