Foundational Concepts
The things people create when they interact over time
A social location in society
What is a status?
To be socialized into a culture
What does it mean to be human?
To be cultural and social
What is empirical proof
The set of expected behaviors attached to a social status
What is a role?
The scientific study of society
What is sociology?
The process by which agents such as peers, educators, and parents teach the ways of a society.
What is socialization?
The act of observing without bias
What is objective observation?
The three main social patterns
Acting back and forth with one another in mind.
What is Social Interaction?
Efforts of the powerful, Culture, Instruments of Force
What are some of the reasons inequality continues?
He studied rates of suicide and realized the power that social structure exerts over individual actions
Who Emile Durkheim?
Norms (rules), Beliefs (ideas), and values
What are the 3 elements of culture?
When a leader emerges to get things done
What is a cause of inequality?
An organization of social relationships aimed at creating efficiency, predictability, and control
What is bureaucracy?
The discipline that questions uncritically believed truths through reference to evidence and data
What is sociology?
When people increasingly do different things, some of which are more valued than others
What is the economic division of labor?
The ability to control oneself, one's thinking, and one's actions
What is the definition of freedom?
Social Interaction over time
What is the main cause of human differences?