Basics
Research
Culture
Groups
Socialization
100

The systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior.

What is sociology?

100

Evidence from direct experience or observation.

What is empirical evidence?

100

Language, Clothing, Flags, Emojis

What are symbols?

100

A formal, impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. 

What is a secondary group?

100

The lifelong process in which people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture.

What is socialization?

200

Analyzing and evaluating what you think and why you think it. 

What is critical thinking?

200

What do sociologists study?

Human behavior, institutions, social groups

200

The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. Essential for individuals and for the survival of societies. 

What is culture?

200

Any group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior.

What is a reference group?

200

The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and responding from that imagined viewpoint.

What is role taking? (bonus: name the theorist)

300

Define Sociological Imagination.

An ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.

300

Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.

What is quantitative research (bonus: list 1 method)

300

A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of customs, rules, and traditions that differ from the pattern of the larger society.

What is subculture?

300

What is the difference between role conflict and role strain?

Role conflict = the situation that occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person

Role strain = the difficulty that arises when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations

300

What is the major point of dramaturgy and which theorist is connected to this theory?

Self development through the impressions we convey to others and to groups. 

Who is Goffman?

400

Define "social institution" and provide 3 examples.

An organized pattern of beliefs or behavior centered on basic social needs (the family, mass media, the government, the economy, the health care system, religion)

400

Research that relies on what is seen in field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data. 

What is qualitative research? (bonus: list 1 method)

400

Give 2 examples of folkways and 2 examples of mores. 

Folkways (informal) and Mores (formal)

400

List 3 ascribed statuses and 3 achieved statuses

ascribed: race, gender, age, family relation

achieved: student, employment, sports, friend, roommate

400

Define resocialization.

The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life. (Bonus: provide an example)

500

Name the characteristics of bureaucracies.

Division of labor, hierarchy of authority, written rules and regulations, impersonality, employment based on technical qualifications.

500

List the 3 basics of thinking methodologically.

Treat all knowledge as tentative. Think both as a scientist and an artist. Know the appropriate uses of social research tools.

500

Define value contradictions.

Values that conflict with one another or are mutually exclusive. 
500

Define role exit and list the 4 stages.

Role exit is the process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's self-identity in order to establish a new role and identity.

Doubt, search for alternatives, action stage/departure, creation of new identity

500

Describe Cooley's looking-glass self.

Stages of development not distinct; feelings toward ourselves developed through interaction with others.

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