Unit 1
The study of human society and behaviour.
What is sociology?
The rules and guidlines of behaviour that are accepted by a particular culture.
What are norms?
A staus that is gained though individual effort or imposed by others.
What is achived status?
A behaviour, trait, or belief that departs from a norm and generates a negative reaction.
What is deviance?
The idea that people become deviant if labled as such.
What is labeling theory?
What is structural functionslim?
A group within a society that is different and has its own values, norms, and lifestyles.
What is subculture?
Judging others baced on preconcived generalizations about a group of people.
What is sterotyping?
Individuals who accept societies approved goals but not the means to achive them.
Who are innovators?
The ways in which people use their bodies to communicate somthing without using words.
What are gestures?
Interactions are symbolyc becuse they occur in the mind before they occur in reality.
What is sumbolic interactionism?
A group within socity that openly rejects and opposes societyies values and norms.
What is counterculture?
A status that is always relvant and affects an individuals life.
What is a master status?
The dievent identiy developed as a result of being labled as devaint.
What is secondary deviance?
The violation of a norm that has been codifed into law.
What is crime?
Society is built to have issues of its own and to only benifit those at the top of the sociela heirachy.
What is conflict theory?
Groups composed of the pole who are the most important to a person sence of self.
What is a primary group?
The experince of having contradicting expectaions within one role.
What is role strain?
People who have given up on the hope af achiving societys approved goals but still opperate accoarding to soceities approved means.
Who are ritualists?
The process of learning and internalizing the values, belifs, and norms of a social group.
What is socialization?
Social life is analyzed in the terms of its simillarites to theatrical performances.
What is dramaturgy?
The principile of understanding other culutres in the terms of said culutrea rather than the terms of ones own culture.
What is culutural relativism?
The web of dierect and indirect ties connecting an idividual to toher people.
What is social network?
The belief that even in a perfect socitey, deviance will still happen.
What is society of saints?
The idea that language structures thought and that ways of looking at the world are embedded in language.
What is the sapir-whorf hypothesis?