Sociology, etc.
The values, beliefs, behavior, & material objects that form a people’s way of life
What is culture?
The ongoing discussion of the respective roles of genetics and socialization in determining individual behaviors and traits.
What is the nature vs. nurture debate?
This group is impersonal and tries to accomplish some specific goal
What is a secondary group?
A naturalistic method based on studying people in their own environment in order to understand the meanings they attribute to their activities; also the written work (notes) that results from the study
What is ethnography?
A behavior, trait, belief, or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative reaction
What is deviance?
Was the first to provide a program for the scientific study of society, or a "social physics," as he labeled it.
Who is Auguste Comte
A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another.
What is language?
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society
What is a total institution or social isolation?
What are variables?
Edwin Sutherland's belief that we learn to be deviant through our associations with deviant peers
What is differential association theory?
The rules and expectations that a society uses to guide the behavior of its members.
What are norms?
George Herbert Mead identified the first stage of development as__________.
A relationship between variables in which a change in one directly produces a change in the other.
What is causation?
Howard Becker idea that deviance is a consequence of external judgement or labels, that modify the individual self concept.
What is labeling theory?
The principle of using one's own culture as a means or standard by which to evaluate another group or individual, leading to the view that cultures other than one's own are abnormal or inferior.
What is ethnocentrism?
A self-image based on how we think others see us
What is looking-glass self?
The recognized violation of cultural norms
What is deviance?
The fourth stage of the scientific method.
What is research design or method?
Merton theory that a person's position in society determines whether she has the means to achieve her goals "American Dream"
What is strain theory?
A quality of the mind that allow us to understand the relationship between out individual circumstances and larger social forces.
What is sociological imagination
Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population are referred to as...
What is popular culture?
Lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential
What is socialization?
tendency of members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of issue
What is groupthink?
A question asked of a respondent that imposes a limit on the possible responses.
What is open-ended question?
The theory that contends rules of deviance are applied unequally based on power.
What is conflict theory?
An approach pioneered by Erving Goffman in which social life is analyzed in terms of its similarities to theatrical performance.
What is dramaturgy
The imposition of one culture's beliefs and practices on another culture through media and consumer products rather than by military force.
What is cultural imperialism?
Social groups, institutions, and individuals (especially the family, schools, peers, and the mass media) that provide structured situations in which socialization takes place.
What are agents of socialization?
"Normlessness" used to describe the alienation and loss of purpose that result from weaker social bonds and increased pace of change.
What is anomie?
The factor that is predicted to cause change.
What is the independent variable?
Deviance clarifies moral boundaries and promotes social cohesion.
What is structural functionalism?