Social Science
This term describes how society is constantly change, never static.
What is Dynamic?
This term describes the developmental influence that a specific birth year has on an individual's collective attitudes, values, and views.
What is Social Location?
This term is used to describe behaviour that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
What is Deviance?
This term is used to describe the psychological period of transition from child to adult, during and after which greater responsibility is expected.
What is Adolescence?
These are people who accept the cultural goals of their society as well as the means by which to attain those goals.
Who are Conformists?
This term is used to describe the systematic classification of items, people, or concepts into distinct types based on shared characteristics.
This occurs when an individual compares themself to someone who is better off.
What is Upward Comparison?
This terms is used to describe an alternative system of values and beliefs that does not conform to the mainstream cultural and social beliefs of society.
What are Subcultures?
This is the stage of Erikson’s theory of development that most adolescent fall under.
What is Identity vs. Confusion?
These are people will accept the standards necessary to achieve the end goal but may not necessarily accept the cultural goals of society, they likely reject them.
Who are Ritualists?
This is considered the process of changing the behavior of a child into acceptable adult behavior
What is Socialization?
This occurs when an individual compares themself to someone who is worse off.
What is Downward Comparison?
When brought together to interact for shared mutual goals, individuals will produce a group structure with social hierarchy and roles.
What is an In-Group?
This theorist states that adolescents undergo a gradual, continual, calm, fluid development.
Who is Leta Stetter Hollingworth?
These are people whose goals are in line with society’s, but will not accomplish them using traditional channels. They strive to reach their goals through alternative means.
Who are Innovators?
This term describes the process by which members of a culture learn and internalize shared ideas, values and beliefs.
What is Enculturation?
This term is used to describe keeping in pace with others, typically neighbours and coworkers, in material goods and lifestyle.
What is Competitive Emulation?
If two distinct groups were formed and brought together in a condition of competition, hostile attitudes and actions would result between the original in-group and the secondary group called...
What is the Out-Group?
Piaget used this term to describe that to make sense of the world, children and adolescents create mental ideas.
What are Schemas?
These are people who have chosen to disengage from mainstream culture. They do not agree with the common cultural goals of their society.
Who are Retreatists?
Strauss-Howe theorized that there are four generational archetypes (Hero, Artist, Prophet, and Nomad) in this theory.
What is Generational Theory?
This theorist states that people are always comparing themselves to one another in order to judge their self-worth, abilities, and status.
Who is Leon Festinger?
Who is Muzafer Sherif?
This term refers to the tension and discomfort felt by individuals that motivate and influence behaviour.
What is Socialized Anxiety?
These are people who openly reject the cultural goals of society, but hey do not isolate themselves, they attempt to change the society in which they live.
Who are Rebels?