Foundational Concepts
The rules people create when they interact over time
What are norms?
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?
The social mechanisms that consist of the efforts of the powerful, social institutions, culture, socialization, and instruments of force
What causes social inequality to continue?
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?
A set of beliefs that support keeping social arrangements the same, and actually make the arrangements seem like they are fair and should remain unchanged.
What is ideology?
When humans make judgements about other people based on their own or their group's values
What is ethnocentrism?
These are the result of social interaction over time, social histories, and facing problems that affect the formation of social patterns.
What are human differences?
Social inequality, destructive conflict, socialization, and conditions of alienation
What are the causes of human misery