Intro to Sociology
Culture
Socialization
Social Structure
Stratification
100

the ability to see the relationship between one's individual life and the effects of larger social forces

What is the sociological imagination?

100

the practice of judging a culture by its own standards

What is cultural relativism?
100

two traits studied in the nature versus nurture debate

What is heredity and environment?

100

status that plays the greatest part in shaping a person's life

What is master status?

100

the likelihood that individuals have of sharing in the opportunities and benefits of sciety

What are life chances?

200

data that deals with numbers

What is quantitative data?

200

disorientation people feel when they encounter a culture radically different from their own

What is culture shock?

200

most important agent of socialization

What is the family?

200

process of detaching from a role that has been an instrumental part of a person's identity

What is role exit?

200

living on less than 2.15 a day

What is extreme poverty?

300

the variable that causes the change

What is the independent variable?

300

the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others

What is cultural lag?

300

His experiments showed the important of socialization & contact comfort with rhesus monkeys

Who is Harlow?

300

This experiment showed how quickly individuals slip into roles and that a bad situation can override personal morals

What is the Stanford Prison experiment?

300

domestic work that women perform after their regular workday

What is second shift?

400

research that actually measures what it is intended to measure is this

What is valid?

400

when culture becomes more and more alike

What is cultural leveling?

400

theory that states we base our sense of self on how we interpret others' perceptions of us

What is the looking glass self theory?

400

this concept explains that you may be more likely to get help in an emergency situation if there are fewer around  

What is the Bystander Effect?

400

treating people as things

What is objectification?

500

theoretical perspective that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change

What is social conflict theory?

500

the practice of judging another culture by one's own culture

What is ethnocentrism?

500

this theory states we present different sides of ourselves in different situations just as if we are actors on a stage

What is dramaturgy or impression management?

500

This experiment showed that people tend to obey reputable authority figures even to the poing of harming another person

What is the Milgram Shock Experiment?

500

this concept explains that it is difficult for women to bust through to the top positions in certain careers like politics or law

What is the glass ceiling?

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