Social Institutions
This perspective meets basic human needs and serves important societal functions.
What is the Functionalist perspective on religion?
A group that is part of the dominant culture but differs from it in some important respects.
What is subculture?
Personal achievement, individualism, and work.
What are the American Values System?
Cooperation, social exchange, and exchange theory.
What are types of Social Interaction?
The systematic study of human society.
What is sociology?
Family, Education, Economy, Government, Media, and Religion.
What are examples of Social Institutions?
Human traits one gets biologically through their parents.
What is nature?
The process of spreading culture traits from one society to another.
What is Diffusion?
A form of interaction aimed at defeating an opponent.
What is conflict?
A set of fundamental assumptions that guides thinking.
What is Paradigm?
Reproduction, Socialization, Sense of Purpose, Social Order, Transmission of Culture, and Personality Development.
What are Functions of Social Institutions?
Broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in society.
What are values?
The commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential.
What is Self-Fulfillment?
Self-deceptive thinking that is based on conformity to group beliefs and created by group pressure to conform.
What is Groupthink?
The ability to see the link between events in society and one's personal life.
What is Sociological Imagination?
It assigns different roles to different family members.
What is the Symbolic Interactionist perspective on families?
Norms that have moral dimensions that should be followed by members of the society.
What are Mores?
Process by which a norm becomes a part of an individual's personality thus conditioning that individual to conform to society's expectations.
What is Internalization?
When the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation,
What is Bystander Effect?
Person or people that owns or controls the means of production and producing wealth.
Who are the Bourgeoisie?
A set of organized beliefs and rules that establish how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs.
What are social institutions?
Our perception of reality depends largely upon the language we have learned.
What is the Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity?
Identify the problem, review the literature, formulate hypothesis, develop a research design, collect and analyze data, state findings and conclusion.
What is the Scientific Method?
People temporarily in the same place at the same time.
What is a Social Aggregate?
The mindset emphasizing knowledge, reason, and planning,
What is Rationalization?