Thinking like a sociologist
Culture: from weird to normal
Looks matter
Just don't get caught!
100
To think outside of your own experience and view things in a broader perspective.
What is sociological imagination?
100
Rules of social interaction that people are expected to follow
What are norms?
100
Trying to control how others see you in social situations
What is impression management?
100
The overall trend in crime rates in the U.S. since the 1970s.
What is going down or decreasing?
200
Study of small groups and face-to-face social interactions
What is microsociology?
200
A group that has different values and norms than the dominant society
What is a subculture?
200
Social honor given to a group or individual by others in a society
What is status?
200
This country incarcerates the highest percentage of its population in the world.
What is the United States?
300
An abstract interpretation that attempts to explain a wide variety of situations
What is theory?
300
Abstract ideals about how people should live
What are values?
300
Socially defined expectations for how a person in a given social position is supposed to behave
What are roles?
300
The rate of incarceration for people in this racial category is more than seven times that of white people.
What is African-American?
400
A theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity & stability
What is structural functionalism?
400
Examples include classical music, abstract art, and gourmet food.
What is high culture?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! Give an example of a self-presentation strategy.
possible answers: authentic, ideal, tactical; ingratiation, supplication, intimidation, self-promotion, exemplification
400
Examples include embezzlement, tax fraud, insider trading, and antitrust violations
What is white-collar crime?
500
A theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals
What is symbolic interactionism?
500
Judging a society other than one's own by its own standards
What is cultural relativism?
500
A way of doing research that involves studying how people make sense of what others do and say
What is ethnomethodology?
500
This concept emphasizes the economic interests driving both crime and the building of more prisons.
What is conflict theory?
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