Social Constructs
A rainbow flag is an example of this type of social construct
What is an association?
Literally the ways of the folk
What are folkways?
An idea about what is true or false
What is a belief?
A theory that aims to clarify the distinction and relationship between troubles and issues
What is the sociological imagination?
Primary school > Elementary school > Middle school > High school
What is a sequence?
Stealing and cheating are examples of this type of social rule
What is a more?
Shared expectations of behavior
What is a norm?
The theory that social interaction depends on the social construction of reality
What is symbolic interactionism?
Ideas placed into ranked relationships
Social prohibitions so strong that they elicit feelings of disgust when they are violated
What are taboos?
Our tendency to connect with others who are similar to us.
What is homophily?
A lens through which we can see where power comes and collides, where it locks and intersects
What is intersectionality?
Subsets of things that we believe are sufficiently similar to one another to be considered the same
What is a category?
Making excuses or explanations for behaviors
What is accounting?
The lifelong learning process by which we become culturally competent
What is socialization?
The idea that people are inclined to form social groups and incorporate group membership into their identity
What is social identity theory?
A constellation of social constructs connected and opposed to one another in overlapping networks of meaning.
What is a symbolic structure?
Reactions from others that are aimed at conformity
What is social sanctioning?
Family, school, peers, media, and religion are all potentially this.
The theory that social life is a series of performances in which we are all actors on metaphorical stages
What is dramaturgy?