Chapter 1: History & Basics
Chapter 2: Research Methods
Chapter 3: Culture
Chapter 4 Socialization
Chapter 5/6:Social Structure & Groups
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Term coined by C. Wright Mills describing the ability of individuals to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and the events in society. Example: You like to drink coffee with friends, and it is a common part of our culture to use coffee as a method of socialization.
What is the sociological imagination?
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The fastest and easiest questioning method in a survey to calculate answers.
What are closed-ended questions?
100
An example is jumping unintentionally when someone scares you.
What is a reflex?
100
The psychologist who studied the importance of contact comfort and negative effects of social isolation by doing experiments on rhesus monkeys.
Who is Harry Harlow?
100
Being someone's biological sibling is an example of this.
What is acrribed status?
200
This person wrote Society in America and emphasized the link between slavery and oppression of women, specifically focusing on male superiority and female inferiority in regards to economic power.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
200
You use this type of research method when you collect information for a school project utilizing published work that requires you to add a work cited page.
What is secondary research?
200
An example is putting on a sweater when you are cold.
What is a drive?
200
Imagining that others see us as well-meaning and kind because they often smile at us and appear accepting is an example of this.
What is the looking glass self?
200
Being a doctor, and therefore being able to afford a certain lifestyle for your family but also maintaining a hectic schedule is an example of this *specific* term.
What is master status?
300
The famous sociologist who believed that natural selection would ensure the fittest society.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
300
An example would be student grades decreasing as absences increase.
What is negative correlation?
300
Dying your hair bright pink is an example of breaking this specific type of norm.
What is a folkway?
300
Time management, attendance, and learning to work with others are often examples of this in a school setting.
What is hidden curriculum?
300
An example of this term is that Miss McNulty should expect you are on-task right now.
What is a right?
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A term describing the following situation: trying to understand why freshmen behave the way they do by putting yourself in their shoes and remembering how you felt and behaved as a freshmen.
What is verstehen?
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An example of this type of research is if you were to report on student behavior and culture during the open block by participating and observing int he open block yourself.
What is field research?
400
Serious mores in which a violation of it typically results in some sort of punishment or condemnation such as the attitude towards polygamy in most cultures.
What is a taboo?
400
Changing the way you behave, possibly even dress (no dress code!), work ethic in preparation for college culture is an example of this.
What is anticipatory socialization?
400
What someone actually behaves like rather than what they are expected to behave like,
What is role performance?
500
Those with a higher education are (supposed to be) more likely to make more money than those with lower levels of education. College is getting more and more expensive making it more difficult for the upward social mobility of individuals from families with less money. Therefore, people from the same families with money tend to stay in higher power jobs. This perspective says that this continuous circle is part of life.
What is conflict theory?
500
An example of this type of information gathering is to administer a survey to a large number of Abington Heights students to get a reflection of students' attitude as a whole rather than just seniors.
What is a representative sample?
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An example of this theory: The French translation of "I miss you" is "you are missing from me." Some would say the difference in translation changes the perception or connotation of the phrase.
What is the hypothesis of linguistic relativity OR the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
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Answer: The three-stage process of role taking according to Mead.
What are the imitation stage, play stage, and game stage?
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An example of this is when you are waiting in line with people at Mannings.
What is a social aggregate?
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