Culture
Socialization
Social Structure
Social Class
Potpourri
100
The values and behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture: a world within a world
What is a subculture?
100
The second stage in Piaget's development of reason, when children develop the ability to use symbols
What is the preoperational stage?
100
The position that someone occupies in society
What is status?
100
Movement up or down the social class ladder because of changes in the structure of society, not individual efforts
What is structural mobility?
100
Conflicts that someone feels between roles because the expectations attached to one role are incompatible with the expectations of another role
What is role conflict?
200
A group whose values, beliefs and behaviors place its members in opposition to the larger culture
What is a counterculture?
200
Freud's term for our inborn basic drives
What is the id?
200
A status that cuts across the other statuses that an individual occupies
What is a master status?
200
The change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next
What is intergenerational mobility?
200
An attempt to remake the self by stripping away the individual's current identity and stamping a new one in its place
What is degradation ceremony?
300
Norms that are not strictly enforced
What are folkways?
300
The term for unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions
What is latent functions?
300
The unity (shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of perfoming the same or similar tasks
What is mechanical solidarity?
300
The factors sociologists use to measure social class
What are income, wealth, education and occupational prestige?
300
The analysis of every day life in terms of the stage, front stage and back stage
What is dramaturgy?
400
Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values
What are mores?
400
The process of learning new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors
What is resocialization?
400
Durkheim's term for the interdependence that results from the division of labor; people depending on others to fulfill their jobs
What is organic solidarity?
400
According to Marx, the class of people who control the means of production
What is captialist or bourgeoisie?
400
The behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status
What is a role?
500
A value, norm or other cultural trait that is found in every group
What is a cultural universal?
500
A place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place
What is a total institution?
500
People's efforts to control the impressions that others receive of them
What is impression managment?
500
The ability to carry out your will, even over the resistance of others
What is power?
500
A type of society that is dominated by impersonal relationships, individual accomplishments, and self-interest
What is gesellschaft?
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