The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life according to C. Wright Mills
Sociological Imagination
100
Groups that share the values, norms and behaviors not shared by the entire population
Subculture
100
What Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte have in common
All were early influential sociologists [and all were men]
100
Theory that views certain elements in society as dysfunctional representing the negative consequences that elements have for the stability of the social system.
Functionalism
100
Term meaning concentration of people in the cities
Urbanization
200
An intended and recognized consequence of some element of society is known as a ___________ function
Manifest
200
Group of interdependent people who have organized in such as way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity
Society
200
Herbert Spencer's friend who influenced him regarding evolution
Charles Darwin
200
Perspective that views society as a series of interrelated parts that work together to form a stable social system
Functionalist
200
Term meaning a state of balance between cooperation and conflict
Accommodation
300
A description of the essential characteristics of a feature of society [crime, for example]
Ideal type
300
San Francisco's Chinatown, Miami's Little Havana and the Navajo of the Southwest have what in common?
They are all examples of a subculture
300
One of the first sociologists to systematically apply the methods of science to the study of society
Emile Durkheim
300
Two groups that were studied to see how different value systems produce different cultures
Yanamamo and the San
300
Rewards or punishments to motivate people to conform to norms
Sanctions
400
Word for observable facts or events
Social phenomena
400
Tendency of people to see their own culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
400
Conducted a study of suicide in 1897 that is still referred to today
Emile Durkheim
400
Reasons people resist cultural change [3]
Ethnocentrism, cultural lag and vested interests
400
Term meaning knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate their environment
Technology
500
What sociologists refer to as a combination of objects and rules
Technology
500
Process by which a culture's norms become internalized and part of a person's personality making that person conditioned to conform to society's expectations
Internalization
500
Linguist who extended the linguistic-relativity hypotheses which states that language shapes the way people think [positive words cause things to appear better than they are and negative words cause things to appear worse]