Ch1 - Introduction
The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as this.
manifest functions
The fact that texting is based on a new and evolving set of symbols shows us this.
Culture changes over time.
This concept refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting.
Personality
In general, people using social media present this type of image of themselves.
Idealized
The framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and changes is this sociological approach.
Social conflict
___ are rules about everyday, casual living; ___ are rules with great moral significance.
Folkways; mores
Erik Erikson's view of socialization states personality develops this way.
Over the entire life course
In 2020 this percentage of U.S. adults reported they had used an online dating site.
10%
This theoretical approach claims that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as what meaning they attach to their behavior.
Symbolic interaction
Cultural change is set in motion by these three ways.
Invention, discovery, diffusion
When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they would like to join, they are engaging in a process called this.
Anticipatory socialization
Survey research involving romantic partners suggests that couples who make the greatest use of social media are likely to have this.
The highest levels of relational conflict
This research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview.
Survey
A middle-class person from suburban Philadelphia who criticizes an Amish farmer as being "backwards" for tilling fields with horses and a plow instead of using a tractor is displaying this.
Ethnocentrism
During industrialization in the U.S. and Western Europe, this happened with life expectancy.
Life expectancy went up
Symbolic interaction explains how mass media and social media do this.
Create and perpetuate social inequality
Critical sociology seeks to bring about this.
Desirable social change
This theoretical approach states that the stability of the U.S. society rests on the core values shared by most people.
Structural functional
According to Erving Goffman, the goal of a total institution it to do this.
Radically alter a person's personality or behavior
Perhaps the most important consequence of the development of mass and social media has been this.
Expanding people's access to information