Unit 1
Rich vs Poor; social order maintained by domination and power.
What is Conflict Theory?
An act that is accepted by society.
What is norms?
What is Ego?
Don't hangout with bad kids!!
What is differential association theory?
Individuals lives and identities are organized without breaking societal norms.
What is Secondary Deviance?
Putting yourself into an aliens body; understanding social reality that places personal experiences within social or historical context.
What is Sociological Imagination?
What is Sub-culture?
Who said that children imitate others behaviors to learn about their roles in society.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
The initial act of attitude that causes one to be deviant.
What is Primary Deviance?
Your primary status is more important than all others.
What is Master Status?
The idea that every part of society has its role or use.
What is Structural Functionalism?
Judging other cultures based on your own culture.
What is Ethnocentrism?
What we think people think of us. (perception of us through what we think others see)
Howard Becker's theory is called...
I wont hire past criminals, or people who have gone to rehab.
What is this an example of...
What is the Stigma of Deviance? (Erving Goffman, 1962)
The environment that we experience determines are response to elements of society.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Concepts, social constructs, or patterns of behavior that are common to ALL human cultures.
There are many duties in being a parent, to which it is hard to accomplish all.
-Going to work
-Picking up kids
-Feeding/clothing them etc.
What is role strain?
Individuals who renounce society's approved goals and means entirely and live outside conventional norms altogether.
The web of indirect or direct ties connecting individuals to other people which may affect the individual.
An approach that attempts to define how society has progressed to an era beyond modernity.
What is the Postmodern Theory?
How sexist language influences societies views on men and women, for example, "firemen" or "policeman" or "Hostess"
What is Sapir Whorf Hypothesis?
We are born with this status, and it is hard to change.
With no crime at all society would be...
What is 'Society of Saints'(Durkheim)?
Physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.
What is material culture?