Founders
The founder of sociology who coined this term.
Who is August Comte?
The theory that claims competition is the animating force in society.
What is conflict theory?
What is symbolic culture?
A place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place.
What is a total institution?
Role strain vs. Role conflict.
What is:
Strain - within one role?
Conflict - between roles?
This individual wanted sociology to become an academic discipline.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This is a micro level theory that focuses on face-to-face interactions, symbols, and shared meaning.
What is symbolic interactionism?
The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken for granted assumptions about life.
What is culture shock?
George Herbert Mead's three stages to learn to "take the role of the other."
What is imitation, play, and team games?
List 5 of the social institutions.
What are: family, religion, education, economy, medicine, politics, law, science, military, mass media?
This individual founded Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
This theory looks at how various institutions work together to keep society working in harmony.
What is functionalism?
The use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms and behaviors.
What is ethnocentrism?
Describe the experiment by Skeels and Dye.
What is the orphanage experiment where researchers studied IQ comparing orphans living in an orphanage with orphans living with women who were mentally ill?
Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft
Gemeinschaft: personal, intimate
Gesellschaft: impersonal
This individual was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Karl Marx terms for the owners and workers.
What is bourgeoisie and proletariat?
The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
What are values?
List at least 5 agents of socialization.
What are:
the family, our peers, the mass media, neighborhood, religion, day care, school, sports, and the workplace.
Garfinkle's experiments.
What are breaching experiments?
This sociologist was an early theorist of social Darwinism.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
This theory is easiest described as a machine or human body.
What is Functionalism?
These are expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms. For one you receive a positive reaction and for the other you receive a negative reaction.
What are sanctions, positive and negative?
Because one anticipates a future role, one learns part of it now.
What is anticipatory socialization?
"If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences"
What is Thomas' definition of the situation?