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This Theory examines how people create meaning through everyday interactions.
What is symbolic interactionism?
The study of social life in its natural setting: observing and interviewing people where they live, work, and play.
What is Field research?
Groups within a society that differentiate themselves from the larger culture to which they belong through a distinctive set of norms, values, or behaviors.
What is subculture?
The notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, resulting in social problems.
What is Cultural Lag?
The scientific and systematic study of groups and group interactions, societies, and social interactions from small personal groups to very large groups.
What is Sociology?
The first socialization an individual undergoes in childhood, through which they become members of society.
What is Primary Socialization?
A carefully designed situation in which the researcher studies the impact of certain variables on subjects’ attitudes or behavior.
What is an experiment?
The primary agent of socialization and is fundamental in laying the groundwork for personal development and social behavior.
What is the family?
The set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. Typically, these cultural elements have been associated with social elites, formal education, and are often institutionalized in art galleries, theaters, and concert halls.
What is high culture?
Looks at trends among and between large groups and societies.
What is Macro-Analysis?
The lifelong process of learning how to fit into society through interactions with others, which shapes your personality, behaviors, values, and social skills.
What is socialization?
This theory views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability.
What is the functionalist perspective?
the two-way process where you influence the people who are socializing you (like parents, teachers, or peers) just as much as they influence you.
What is reciprocal socialization?
The process where individuals or groups from one cultural background blend into another culture, adopting its characteristics and norms to become fully integrated members of that society.
What is cultural assimilation?
Involves studying small groups and individual interactions, such as the accepted rules of conversation in various groups.
What is Micro-analysis?
The ongoing learning that happens throughout your life as you join new groups and institutions beyond your family, like school, workplaces, or friend groups.
What is secondary socialization?
A detailed study of the life and activities of a group of people by researchers who may live with that group over a period of years.
What is Ethnography?
Groups that reject and oppose significant norms and values of the dominant society and create their own cultural patterns in opposition.
What is counterculture?
Customs and practices that occur across all societies
What are cultural universals?
Refers to the idea that our location has a profound effect on our chances in life.
What is Social Location?
The process by which knowledge and skills are learned for future roles.
What is anticipatory socialization?
This Theory focuses on competition and power struggles.
What is Conflict theory?
The widespread cultural elements that are perpetuated through the media and consumed by the masses, often reflecting current trends in society.
What is popular culture?
The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture, often accompanied by a general disdain for other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
A method where sociologists ask many people the same questions to collect data about societal trends and opinions.
What is a Survey?