Theorists
Self
Culture
Perspectives
Wild Card
100

According to Émile Durkheim, this is the basis for the bonds created through organic solidarity in industrialized societies

What is interdependence and stability

100

How we teach norms, values, and beliefs.

What is socialization 

100

When someone has the ability to understand another culture in terms of that culture’s own norms and values without reference to any other culture’s standards.

What is cultural Relativism

100

The act of ripping up a dollar bill provides a good example of how we define and give meaning to ...? 

Wht is paper

100

The analytical approach that examines large-scale structures to see how they affect individual lives

What is Macro level of analysis

200

Critical Race Theory originated from this organization to address institutional racism

What is law (lawyers)

200

A waiter laughing, smiling, and telling jokes to a table they are waiting on even though that waiter is feeling really tired.

What is front stage

200

The controversy in our society surrounding North Carolina’s 2016 HB2 law on bathroom use.

What is a culture war

200

This perspective argues that conflict between social groups is the engine that creates.

What is social change

200

The intended function of a prison, keeping “bad” people from “good” people.

What is manifest function

300

 Feminist theory is an offshoot of conflict theory which have these commonalities. 

What is they both seek to not only understand inequality but also to remedy it. 

300

The agent of socialization that strongly influenced of young girls with eating disorders in Fiji in the 1990s. 

What is media

300

Guests that are expected to be happy at a wedding.

What are feeling rules 

300

If it is defined as real, it is real in its consequences. 

What is the Thomas Theorem

300

The sociological framework that best allows us to see the connection between the personal and the public

What is the Sociological Imagination 

400

This theorist was the first to create a program for the scientific study of society. He coined the term: Sociology.

What is Auguste Comte

400

The dual nature of the self we experience. 

What is the subject and object

400

The ranking of different types of norms from least to most powerful or morally significant.

What are folkways, mores, and taboos.

400

Someone who is employed at a new car dealership but cannot afford to buy the car they are selling.

What is alienation 

400

Black and brown parents giving “the talk” to their kids on how to not act in ways that are perceived as negative stereotypical ways.

What is respectability politics, or racial socialization

500

The theorist that focuses on the role of mind, language, and the self. 

Who is Mead

500

The two factors that are needed to determine whether something is socially constructed.

What is time and cross cultural (place)

500

Nonmaterial culture includes shared beliefs and rules and guidelines 

What are values and norms

500

This perspective claims that media commercials, families that cheer for their favorite team, and the jobs done at stadiums provides stability and cooperation in a society. 

What is structural functionalism  

500

Media that depicts heterosexual couples as the dominant form of a family unit. 

What is hegemony

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