Training Soc Eye
Seeing beneath the surface of a situation and discerning cultural and structural social patterns.
What is the sociological eye?
Distinguished between mechanical solidary and organic solidarity societies in examining how the parts of society worked together. Represented a structural functionalism approach.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Expectations about the appropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people in a variety of situations.
What are social norms?
By fighting climate change through deviant acts such as protesting and speaking at the UN, Greta Thunberg is an example of this.
What are deviant heroes?
A system where those with the most talent rise to the top and are appropriately rewarded for their contribution.
What is a meritocracy?
Connecting what is happening in your life with the lives of others in the larger society ultimately differentiating a personal problem and a social problem that requires a societal solution.
What is the sociological imagination
Good or useful things that a social institution does but are not the institution's reason for existence.
What are latent functions?
The theory that claims language influences our understanding of reality above and beyond the meaning of its symbols.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
The transition from badness to madness where what was considered sin is now considered a sickness.
What is the medicalization of deviance?
Argued that economic inequality is the consequence of the fact that the interests of the bourgeoisie and the interests of the proletariat are incompatible.
Who is Karl Marx?
What is the individualistic perspective?
Research that designed to produce results that are useful in relation to some real-world situation.
What is applied research?
Idea put forth by the anthropologist Franz Boas that claims that cultures cannot be ranked better or worse than others.
What is cultural relativism?
What is secondary deviance?
A theory that describe the beliefs, attitudes and values that characterize those living in poverty.
What is the culture of poverty?
Unlike stereotypes they are based on social scientific research.
What is a good generalization?
The role of this institution is to ensure the rights of human subjects are protected.
What is an Institutional Review Board?
Being closed to external influences in which a group of people live together and follow a structured routine, such as a prison, is an example of this sort of institution.
What is a total institution?
Individuals who are blamed for the collapse of public morality and are therefore treated as threats to the social order.
What are folk devils?
A system where there is very limited social mobility, but those with the least standing, the serfs or peasantry, have more freedom than enslaved people.
What is an estate system?
A key founder of sociology who strived to refute racist ideas about African Americans through the first large-scale empirical sociological research in the United States and founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The extent to which research results are consistent and the forms of measurement in the research actually measure what it is meant to measure.
What is reliability?
School, peers, media, family, and other people, groups, and institutions that contribute to our socialization.
What are agents of socialization?
Understanding deviance by the probability and likelihood of a particular belief or behavior in society.
What is the statistical approach?
The worth of your assets (e.g., savings accounts, houses, cars, and investment portfolios holding stocks and bonds) minus your debts.
What is wealth?