Sociology and Research
The scientific study of human social relations, groups, and societies
What is sociology?
A social culture that provides an environment conducive to rape that blames victims for their victimization.
What is rape culture?
The process in which people learn the culture of their society?
What is Socialization?
we use our primary, secondary, and reference
groups to judge our behavior
Why are groups important?
Any behavior, practice, or condition that results in disapproval, hostility or sanction if it becomes known
What is deviance?
Founded and named sociology as the scientific study of social relationships.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Anthropologist that argued that a landscape of global flows exists across the world, and these flows produce new forms of culture.
Who is Arjun Appadurai?
The way people adapt their behavior in response to social rewards and punishments.
What is Social Learning?
Quality of interactions and the groups ability to accomplish tasks
What does group size determine?
This perspective is originally based in phrenology but today is focused on interaction between biology and environment.
What are Biological Perspectives?
Research that starts from specific data to identify larger patterns to form general theories.
What is inductive reasoning?
The process by which people worldwide become increasingly connected economically, politically, socially, culturally, and environmentally.
What is Globalization?
Preparatory stage, Play stage, Game Stage, Adult stage
What are Meads's stages of development?
a group with identifiable membership that engages in concerted collective actions to achieve a common purpose
What is an organization?
This type of control occurs when sanctions of behavior are officially codified.
What is formal social control?
Type of research that selects samples of individuals that represent the entire population.
What is survey research?
Sociologist that introduced the concept of habitus.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
Believed humans are socialized in stages like symbolic interactionists
Who is Jean Piaget?
a type of formal organization based on written procedural rules, arranged into a clear hierarchy of authority and staffed by full-time paid officials
What are Bureaucracies?
This theory is differentiated between primary deviance, and secondary deviance.
What is labeling theory?
The "Dead White Men" theorists is most associated with Symbolic Interactionism.
Whos is Max Weber
Wealth in the form of knowledge, ideas, verbal skills, and ways of thinking and behaving.
What is Cultural Capitol?
Studies the body of commonsense knowledge and procedures
What is Ethnomethodology?
Bureaucracies that have specialized offices, hierarchy, impersonality of record keeping, and a technically competent administrative staff
What are Ideal typical bureaucracies?
Poverty, policing in poor neighborhoods, and racism all contribute to this issue.
What are minorities being overly represented in prisons?