Key People
Culturally Thinking
Terminology
Miscellaneous
Final Category
100
Founder of Sociology, said sociology should guide social order
Who is August Comte
100
The tendency to view one's culture as best and to judge others by those standards.
What is ethnocentrism
100
The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable (good or bad)
What are values
100
Language, beliefs, values, and material objects passed on from generation to generation.
What is culture
100
If John Doe takes a shower only once a week, he would be breaking a...
What is a folkway
200

Wrote the Communist Manifesto; Emphasized the role of Conflict in society 

Who is Karl Marx

200
Physical objects or artifacts that people make and attach meaning to constitute this in a society
What is material culture
200

The time in between changes when ideas and beliefs are adapting to new material conditions

What is cultural lag

200
A system of symbols put together to communicate is...
What is language
200
Using your body to communicate is called
What are gestures
300

Focused on separate groups within society rather than society as a whole; Used the principle of Verstehen (an attempt to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions)

Who is Max Weber

300
A culture within a culture
What is a subculture
300
Expectations or rules of behavior that develop to reflect and enforce values
What are norms
300

The perspective in sociology that argues that society is about struggle

What is conflict theory

300
When we are trying to understand a culture on its own terms
What is cultural relativism
400
2nd founder of Sociology, said societies evolve and it should be "survival of the fittest"
What is Herbert Spencer
400
Things such as values, beliefs, and customs that are not embodied in physical objects constitute a society's...
What is non material culture
400
Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought of as core values
What mores
400

Name 3 traditional American Values

Personal Achievement 

Progress

Material Comfort

Work 

Individualism 

Efficiency 

Practicality 

Morality 

Humanitarianism

Equality

Democracy 

Freedom 

400
Disorientation that people experience when they are in a new culture is
What is culture shock
500

Was concerned with social order; focused on the function of religion in maintaining social order. 

Who is Emile Durkheim

500

a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.

What is a society 

500
Norms that are not strictly enforced
What are folkways
500
The idea that society is a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system
What is functionalism
500
The idea in sociology that the world is made up of labels is called...
What is symbolic interactionism
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