People who live in a defined geographic area wherein they interact with each other and share a common culture and mindset.
What is Society?
100
study of society and social interaction
What is sociology
100
The scientific study of social patterns.
What is positivism?
100
The objects or belongings of a group of people.
What is Material Culture?
100
golf, horseback riding, nascar, opera
What qualifies as high culture?
200
judging and evaluating another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
sociologist study laws,morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions and rituals, these qualify as..
What are social facts
200
The sociologist who named the scientific study of social patterns positivism.
Who is Auguste Comte?
200
Values that portrays the standards society would like to embrace and live up to.
What is an ideal culture?
200
pop music, hip-hop, concerts, festivals, cinema
What qualifies as pop culture?
300
traits that are globally common to all society. eg. a family unit
What are cultural universals?
300
the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior
What is figuration?
300
The founder of sociology who believed that societies changed due to class struggles and social classes
Who is Karl Marx?
300
The experience of disorientation and frustration in a person when confronted with new cultures.
What is Culture Shock?
300
a smaller culture group within a larger culture
What is subculture?
400
statistical methods: surveys with large numbers of participants
What is quantitative sociology?
400
relationship between a person’s behaviour and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions
What is sociological imagination
400
Statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants
What is quantitative sociology?
400
Values and Beliefs.
What are the elements of culture?
400
type of subcultures that rejects some of the larger cutlure's norms and values.
What is counterculture?
500
a way to authorise or formally disapprove of certain behaviours
What are sanctions?
500
an error or mistake of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real,material existence
What is reification?
500
The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values.
What is antipositivism?
500
An exchange student who goes home after a semester abroad or a sociologist who returns from the field may find it difficult to associate with the values of their own culture after having experienced what they deem a more upright or nobler way of living.
What is an example of Xenocentrism?
500
when something new is introduced, ex: iphones, hipsters, music....