Processes & Transformations
This allows a person to behave appropriately in two (2) or more environments where the norms -- especially folkways -- are different.
What is code-switching?
This is the systematic study of human behaviour in a social context.
What is sociology?
This coefficient measures the level of inequality in a country.
What is the Gini coefficient?
This dangerous cognitive tool can be prescriptive or descriptive. They are oversimplified pictures of the world that make the social environment more understandable and manageable.
What are stereotypes?
A 1993 study on Gender Play in school found that children of this gender tend to have more structured play in larger groups and to break the rules more.
What are boys? / What are males?
This can be defined as the ways in which the social aspect shapes and constructs how our genetics are developed and drawn out. This process believes that our environment cannot be separated from our DNA in our development as human individuals.
What is socialization?
True or False?
According to the article by Lauren Young, parasocial relationships are real relationships.
What is True?
True or False?
Common Sense will usually lead to a logical line of inquiry that most accurately explains human behaviour and motivation within a society.
What is False?
This type of capital includes things like your family history, what school you went to, and who your family knows.
What is social capital?
This sociologist who studied status consistency and inconsistency would have been interested in the reaction and assumptions of patients faced with a male nurse and a female doctor.
Who is Max Weber?
Parenthood is an important role. It often conflicts with the role a parent plays as a worker when work takes time away from parenting. Being a parent alone is a role that carries many responsibilities. As a result, parents can experience this.
What is role strain?
Weber was concerned that the bureaucratic characteristics he saw applied in the business world were spreading to society in general. He worried that rational calculation was being used to increase this in other parts of society.
What is efficiency?
Items have different types of values: symbolic value, use value, and exchange value. Wearing clothing that symbolizes status might get us a job. When that happens, this is the value of that clothing.
What is use value?
This term coined by Bourdieu refers to the knowledge and skills acquired during our socialization that become second nature to us, and which will affect our habitual behaviours and perspectives.
What is habitus?
This theory suggests that our perspective on social and economic life and cultural meanings is shaped by our own place in society's structure.
What is Standpoint Theory?
In these ceremonies, which are part of resocialization, new members lose the aspects of their old identity and are given new identities. (Despite the ceremony name, these can be part of a gentle and caring process but often involve some sort of loss.)
What are degradation ceremonies?
Ritzer built on Weber's 6 characteristics of bureaucracy. These are 2 of the 4 principles he claimed guided what he referred to as the "McDonaldization of Society."
Any two of the following:
What are: efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control/monitoring?
We are measuring this when we compare the occupational status or earnings of (adult) children and their parents.
What is social mobility?
Any five (5) latent functions of education in Canada. These form part of the "hidden curriculum" to teach values and norms.
What is/are: obedience, work ethics, time management, manners/etiquette, respect for authority/hierarchy, cooperation, leadership, competition, gender norms, dress codes, grading/ranking practices...?
This political-economic theorist who saw the world as conflict between the capitalist class and the working class observed that: Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
Who is Karl Marx?
Any five (5) agents of socialization.
What are: family, friends, bosses, workplace, school, religious community, peers, coaches, media, government...?
The name of one of the social scientists who believed that social determinism is responsible for making us who we are as individuals.
Who is Watson? ("I can turn any child into the same thing regardless of genes")
OR: Who is Skinner?
OR: Who is Pavlov?
This is a recognized social position occupied by an individual within a social structure.
What is social status?
This can be defined as an individual's ability for independent thought. It is purposeful and reflective action that cannot be fully predicted.
What is agency?
John Porter believed that the Canadian "mosaic" was not diversity as equality. He felt that those elements that made us different also contributed to our stratification and inequality within society. This is what he named this mosaic of differences.
What is the Vertical Mosaic?