Vocab
Misc.
Theoretical Approaches
Culture
Challenge
100
What is scientific truth based on?
Information we can verify with our senses
100
What are five ways of knowing?
Belief/faith, expert/authority, tradition, ESP, science
100
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Language shapes the view of reality of its speakers
100
What are the components of culture?
Material culture, symbols, language, values, norms
100
Create a scenario depicting ________
Mores: norms may not be violated without serious consequences
200
What does the sociological imagination look at and what does it transform?
It looks at the relationship b/w individual and larger society. Personal problems are transformed into public issues.
200
This is an example of what type of correlation? Define. The more beds are sold the more people die in their sleep. Beds=death
Spurious correlation: trivial or meaningless correlation
200
I was successful by picking myself up by my bootstraps. I worked hard to get everything I have. Are statements that a ______ would say
Functionalist
200
Create a scenario depicting ____
Folkways: norms may be violated w/o consequences
200
Depict a group that is a ________
Subculture: cultural patterns that set apart a segment of societies population. Goes with larger society.
300
What is the Symbolic-interaction paradigm and what does it focus on?
Focused on interpersonal communication in micro- level social settings, Focuses on how people create reality (sense of everyday lives)
300
What are the two assumptions of science?
All perceptions are achieved through the senses. People can trust their perceptions, memory and reasoning as reliable agencies for acquiring facts
300
This is an example of which theoretical approach?
Structural-functional approach: society viewed as a stable orderly system different players have different roles but work together as a unit
300
What are values and what are some of yours?
Values: ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable in a particular culture
300
Depict a group that represents ________
Counterculture: cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
400
What is culture?
Values, beliefs, behavior, material objects that together form a peoples way of life
400
Based on the four perspectives on human behavior diagram, what does social emerge and interpenetrate into? What other perspectives does it affect?
Emerge into cultural and interpenetrate into psychological...... cultural, social, psychological, biological.
400
This is an example of which theoretical approach and why?
Social-Conflict: groups competing for scarce resources, inequality
400
This is an example of what kind of culture? Define.
Material culture: physical creations that members of a society make, use and share
400
Create a scenario depicting ________
Ethnocentrism:practice of judging another culture by the standards or ones own culture and assuming that ones own culture and way of life a superior to all others
500
What is society?
People who interact in a defined territory and share a common culture
500
What is the criteria for cause and effect? Give example.
correlation b/w IV and DV, IV earlier than DV, relationship cannot be explained away by a third variable
500
What is this video clip looking at and what is being communicated? What kind of approach?
Symbolic-interaction: focuses on the specific interaction among people. Shopping while black, stereotypes etc.
500
What component of culture does this represent and what are the different meanings?
Symbols/gestures: anything meaningfully represents something else
500
Create a scenario depicting __________
Cultural Relativism: the practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards
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