Sociologists
The systematic study of social interaction at a variety of levels.
What is Sociology?
A feeling of isolation, meaninglessness, and powerlessness.
What is Alienation?
A group of people who have lived and worked together long enough to become an organized population and to think of themselves as a social unit.
The Process of learning cultural behaviors and expectations so deeply that one accepts them without question.
What is internalization?
The organized pattern of behavior that governs people's relationships, encompassing all the statuses, roles, groups, institutions, and organizations of a society.
What is Social Structure?
Living from 1798 until 1857 and considered the "father of sociology," this sociologist insisted that the new study of sociology be empirical, meaning based in observation and the scientific method.
Also, he is responsible for the ideas of social statics and social dynamics
Who is Auguste Comte?
A relatively small group of people who engage in intimate face-to-face interaction over an extended period of time.
What is a language?
Theories that maintain people learn new attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors through social interaction, especially during childhood.
What are social learning theories?
A social position that a person attains through personal effort or assumes voluntarily.
Living from 1858 until 1917, this sociologist was best known for his/her work titled Suicide. This sociologist studied issues of social solidarity and cohesiveness.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
People who share a sense of identity and "we-ness" that typically excludes and devalues outsiders.
What is an in-group?
Society's specific rules concerning right and wrong behavior
What is a norm?
A self-image based on how one believes others see them.
What is Looking-glass self?
The actual behavior of a person who occupies a status
What is role performance?
This Contemporary Sociological theory pioneered by Comte and Durkheim views society as a complex system of interdependent parts that work together to ensure a society's survival.
What is Functionalism?
The tendency of in-group members to conform without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas, which results in a narrow view of an issue.
What is Group Think?
Rewards for good or appropriate behavior and/or penalties for bad inappropriate behavior.
Sanctions
Learning to take the perspectives of others.
What is Role taking?
The frustrations and uncertainties a person experiences when confronted with the requirements of two or more statuses.
What is Role Conflict?
This prominent African-American sociologist explored class and racial tensions, especially the various social and economic gaps between white and black Americans.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
A formal organization that is designed to accomplish goals and tasks through the efforts of a large number of people in the most efficient and rational way possible.
What is a Bureaucracy?
The sense of confusion, uncertainty, disorientation, or anxiety that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life or environment.
What is culture shock?
the individuals, groups, or institutions that teach us what we need to know to participate effectively in society.
What are agents of socialization?
The perspective whose fundamental premise is that social interaction is based on each person’s trying to maximize rewards and minimize punishments.
What is Social Exchange Theory?