The Sociological Perspective
This term describes the ability to connect personal experiences to larger social forces and historical events.
What is the sociological imagination?
These shared rules and expectations guide behavior in society.
What are social norms?
This lifelong process teaches us society's norms, values, and expected behaviors.
What is socialization?
This term refers to behavior that violates a society's norms.
What is deviance?
This term refers to the social position a person occupies, such as student, parent, or employee.
What is status?
This term describes unequal access to wealth, power, resources, and opportunities.
What is social inequality?
This term refers to shared cultural characteristics, such as language, traditions, or ancestry.
What is ethnicity?
This sociologist introduced the concept of the sociological imagination.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
Language, beliefs, values, and customs are examples of this type of culture.
What is nonmaterial culture?
Family, peers, schools, and media are examples of these influences that teach us how to behave.
What are agents of socialization?
A close group of friends or family members with strong emotional bonds is this type of group.
What is a primary group?
This type of status is generally acquired through personal actions or accomplishments.
What is achieved status?
This term refers to the total value of what a person owns minus what they owe.
What is wealth?
This term describes a preconceived judgment or attitude about a group of people.
What is prejudice?
This perspective views society as a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain stability.
What is structural functionalism?
This term describes judging another culture using the standards of your own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
This sociologist developed the concept of the looking-glass self.
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
People change their behavior to match a group, even when no one explicitly tells them to. This is called this.
What is conformity?
A college student has an exam scheduled at the same time as a mandatory work shift. This is an example of this.
What is role conflict?
This term describes the unequal distribution of resources and opportunities among countries.
What is global inequality?
This term refers to unequal treatment of people based on their membership in a social group.
What is discrimination?
This perspective focuses on power, inequality, and competition over limited resources.
This perspective focuses on power, inequality, and competition over limited resources.
A student moves abroad and feels confused by unfamiliar customs, food, and expectations. The student is experiencing this.
What is culture shock?
A person joins the military and must learn new rules, routines, behaviors, and expectations that replace many of their previous habits. This is an example of what type of socialization?
What is resocialization?
A person is repeatedly called a troublemaker and eventually begins acting according to that identity. This illustrates this theory.
What is labeling theory?
This term refers to a system that ranks groups of people into unequal social positions.
What is social stratification?
This theory argues that wealthy nations can benefit economically from the dependence and exploitation of poorer nations.
What is dependency theory?
A person believes that their own racial or ethnic group is naturally superior to other groups. This belief is an example of what sociological concept?
What is racism?
A researcher studies how students use gestures, clothing, and language to create meaning in everyday interactions. This is the perspective being used.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Technology changes rapidly, but laws and social expectations struggle to keep up. This illustrates this concept.
What is cultural lag?
A child begins to understand themselves by imagining how other people see and judge them. This illustrates this concept.
What is the looking-glass self?
A student receives disapproving looks for talking loudly in a quiet library. These reactions are an example of this type of social control.
What is informal social control?
A person moves from a working-class background into a higher social class through education and employment. This illustrates this concept.
What is upward social mobility?
Two people work equally hard, but one has access to better schools, healthcare, and professional connections because of family wealth. This illustrates how this factor shapes life chances.
What is social class (or socioeconomic status)?
Policies and practices within institutions produce unequal racial outcomes, even without explicit discriminatory intent. This is called this.
What is institutional racism?