Primary Readings
Socialization
Culture
Social Institutions
Potpourri
100
'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' was written by this person.
Who is Max Weber?
100
Symbolic Interactionist Charles Horton Cooley used this simple but powerful concept to help explain how social interaction is as crucial as food, water, and shelter in the social formation of a sense of self.
What is the looking-glass self?
100
The belief that ones culture is better than another.
What is Ethnocentrism?
100
Socially accepted rules for behavior.
What are norms?
100
A system of mass production typical of advanced capitalist societies in the twentieth century based on assembly-line production, centralization of component manufacturing, scientific management, and stimulation of relatively high wages, low pricing, advertising, and consumer credit.
What is Fordism?
200
Juliet Schor identifies 'this' as a problem in her book, 'Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.' This problem is the belief that happiness and fulfillment can be achieved through acquisition of material possessions.
What is consumerism, or materialism?
200
The process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as a member of that society
What is Socialization?
200
Conceptions that people accept as true concerning how the world operates and the place of the individual in relationship to others.
What are beliefs?
200
These institutions are distinct because they are known as primary institutions. (Must name five)
What are the family, education, religion, economic and political institutions, Media, or Medicine
200
This sociological theory believes social institutions tend to reinforce inequalities and uphold the power of dominant groups.
What is Conflict Theory?
300
'This' is the type of approach taken by Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin in their excerpt from "The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism."
What is an Ethnography?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 3 stages in the development of the self are the preparatory stage, the play stage, and this.
What is the game stage? (they no longer play roles they consider several tasks and relationships at the same time- they grasp their own social position and those around them)
300
Everything that is a part of our constructed environment, such as books, fashion, and monuments.
What is Material Culture?
300
This theory believes that social institutions fulfill functional prerequisites and are essential for the continued stability of society.
What is Structural Functionalism?
300
The doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
What is Utilitarianism?
400
in "Corporation Nation," Charles Derber is primarily concerned with these two social institutions.
What are Economy (business), and Politics (or government)?
400
These four things compose the agents of socialization in society.
What is family, peer groups, school and media?
400
An element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide.
What are cultural universals?
400
Sociologists understand 'this' as the set of arrangements by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods, services, and other resources.
What is the economy?
400
A severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
What is Asceticism?
500
This quote is from 'this' primary reading: "narrow specialists without minds, pleasure-seekers without heart; in its conceit, this nothingness imagines it has climbed to a level of humanity never before attained."
What is 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?'
500
A goal-directed conscious or unconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of others about a person, object, or event. This, is performed by controlling or shaping information in social interactions.
What is impression management?
500
Cultural changes may result from Invention , Diffusion or this.
What is discovery? (understanding and recognizing a better way of doing something already in existence)
500
Of the major social institutions in society, these two are considered the newest members.
What is the institution of health and media?
500
Norms that are used for casual interaction and interaction in every day life- they are less likely to be raise concern if they are violated.
What are Folkways?