Sociology and its Methods
This is the study of human society.
What is sociology?
the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society.
What is socialization?
Moral Beliefs
What are values?
a negative social label that not only changes others' behavior toward a person but also alters that person's own self-concept and social identity.
What is stigma?
He served as the first Secretary of State.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
a qualitative method of studying people or a social setting that uses observation; interaction; and sometimes formal interviewing to document behaviors, customs, experiences, social ties, and so on.
What is ethnography?
someone or something outside of oneself.
What is the generalized other?
the belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others, and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own.
What is ethnocentricism?
theory explaining how social context and social cues impact whether individuals act deviantly; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow deviant acts.
What is the broken windows theory of deviance?
This court case was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
The ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces
What is the sociological imagination?
the process by which one's sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are reengineered, often deliberately, through an intense social process that may take place in a total institution.
What is resocialization?
the time gap between appearance of a new technology and the words and practices that give it meaning.
What is culture lag?
the role of a member of a triad who intentionally drives a wedge between the other two actors in the group.
What is divide et impera?
This ancient wonder located on the island of Pharos guided ships in ancient Africa
What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
The phenomenon wherein a researcher's presence affects her subjects' behavior or response; thereby disrupting the study.
What is the white coat effect?
an institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day-to-day life; no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life, and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single authority.
What is a total institution?
how values tell us to behave.
What are norms?
the member of a triad who benefits from conflict between the other two members of the group.
What is tertius gaudens?
In 1966, they cofounded the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
This German word for understanding is the basis of interpretive Sociology
Verstehen
all the statuses one holds simultaneously.
What is status set?
the idea that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere, a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structures of a society is projected.
What is reflection theory?
the member of a triad who attempts to resolve conflict between the two other actors in the group.
What is a mediator?
In the show, Big Brother, this is the winner of a competition that grants them safety and allows them to nominate housemates for eviction. It often comes with perks such as your own bedroom and bathroom.
What is head of household?