The Sociological Perspective
Dramaturgy
Culture
Socialization
Deviance
Mixed Bag
100
Specific way of seeing, or perspective, that reveals the power of society to shape individual lives
What is the sociological perspective?
100
Dramaturgical term describing how we present ourselves to others.
What is a front?
100
Rules and expectations (implicit or explicit) of a society.
What are norms?
100
Agent of socialization where people are first socialized.
What is the family?
100
Double Jeopardy!! (200 Points)
This framework says it's not what people do that is deviant, but how we respond to them that makes them deviant.
What is symbolic interactionism?
100
The systematic study of society
What is sociology?
200
According to C. Wright Mills, you need to view the world using this kind of mind.
What is a beginner's mind?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! (400 points)
The expected behaviors, actions, and consequences in a specific role.
What is a social script?
200
To judge a culture using your own culture as the reference.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
Which agent of socialization This component of peer-group socialization is depicted here.
What is anticipatory socialization?
200
The sociological perspective on deviance agrees with the idea that because some people have died or have been seriously injured while playing American football, it is therefore deviant. (true/false)
What is false?
200
"Who benefits? Who suffers?" is a question often asked when using this major theoretical framework that deals with power.
What is conflict theory?
300
_________, a term that means "to understand", popularized by sociologist, ______.
What is Verstehen? Who is Max Weber?
300
Fronts, settings, backstage, characters and performers. Which theorist attributed these theatrical terms to how we frame our identities?
Who is Goffman?
300
This term, created by Antonio Gramsci, describes how the ruling class dominates social groups through their thought patterns.
What is hegemony?
300
This theory says we see ourselves as we believe others see us.
What is Cooley's looking glass self?
300
This theorist said deviance is a normal and essential element of society.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
300
Shown here is an example of a violation of this kind of norm.
What is a more?
400
Three major approaches to viewing society. Must name all three.
What are the Structural-Functional, Symbolic Interaction, and Social Conflict Approach?
400
The environment that matches a specific status and role.
What is a set?
400
German speakers are more likely to describe a bridge as "long and strong" because the noun gender is masculine, and a Spanish speaker is more likely to describe a bridge as "beautiful and supportive" because it's noun gender is feminine. What thesis of language/culture does this support?
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis/thesis?
400
This theory of socialization states humans are not born with a sense of self, but develop it later in life. It is also a theory that is 100% social as it requires interactions with others in order to work.
What is Mead's Self, I, and Me?
400
A poor person who has little chance to go to college and who sells illegal drugs to make money is this type of deviant according to Robert Merton.
What is an innovator?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! (800 points)
The agreed understanding of these, allows us to communicate and navigate our reality.
What are symbols?
500
In the structural functional framework, this term describes the unintentional effects of societal institutions.
What is a latent function?
500
This is considered the most important goal of impression management.
What is saving face (or version of this answer)?
500
Pictured, a violation of this kind of norm.
What is a folkway?
500
This agent of socialization is one of the main ways hegemonic ideology is maintained.
What is the mass media?
500
Tricked by a coworker, a person comes to a party dressed as a bunny- only to discover that the party wasn't a costume party. Everyone from then on saw him as odd and eccentric and eventually he began to think of himself in this way too. The initial mistake at the party is an example of this kind of deviance according to labeling theory.
What is primary deviance?
500
According to the matrix of this, societies use specialized knowledge to indoctrinate most of its members into willingly upholding the status quo, even if it hurts the members more than helps them.
What is domination?
600
This major theoretical framework would investigate the way protests work to change a society, but not necessarily be interested in creating social change.
What is structural functionalism?
600
Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game where we work to control the impressions others have of us. He calls that process this.
What is impression management?
600
A religious leader does something society views as wrong despite the individual often being seen as a moral leader. This is an example of the disconnect between these two concepts.
What is real and ideal culture?
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! (1200 Points)
The major theoretical framework that is most often used in theories of interaction from those such as Cooley, Mead, and Goffman.
What is symbolic interactionism?
600
The change in response from the criminalized crack epidemic in the 80s to the public health opioid crisis in the 2000s is an example of this phenomenon.
What is the medicalization of deviance?
600
When the dominant culture persuades the rest of society, without the use of force, that its ideas are the only or best ideas, it has achieved this.
What is hegemony?