This school of thought is used to understand a culture and how it is necessary to investigate the social functions of institutions.
What is functionalism?
100
This is the term for the wage gap between the rich and the poor.
What is income inequality?
100
The view that social change is initiated by technology and not necessarily by the individual.
What is technological determinism?
100
This person created the Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
100
A society where nomadic peoples move their animals from area to area to let them feed.
What is a pastoral society?
200
These people are members of an experimental group.
Who are confederates?
200
The logical and predictable outcome of a given situation.
What is functional repercussion?
200
The support of an issue that has little or no practical effect other than to make the person doing it take satisfaction from the feeling they have contributed.
What is slacktivism?
200
This person studied the division of labour, traditional vs. complex societies, and 4 types of suicide.
Who is Emilie Durkheim?
200
This allowed society to diversify, leading to a division of labour.
What is emergence of cities?
300
This school of thought can be explained by economic power being the basis of political power, which is the key to understanding societies.
What is neo-marxism?
300
A belief that there should be a wide-spread acceptance of differences in culture, region, values, and lifestyle within a society.
What is pluralism?
300
People who oppose new technologies.
Who are Luddites?
300
This person created the 8 stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
300
These people survived as they traveled across territories collecting edible, wild plants.
Who are hunter gatherers?
400
This school of thought is when one recognizes the ethnic diversity and studies it, as well as rejects the urge to judge through the eyes of the majority.
What is inclusionism?
400
This is a social psychologist term for a virtually universal belief that our attitudes are right and proper.
What is subjective validity?
400
When technology introduces change that temporarily destabilizes society, it is known as this.
What is a cultural lag?
400
This person founded Gestalt Psychology.
Who is Wolfgang Kohler?
400
These societies allowed humans to stay in one place building farms and growing food.
What are horticultural societies?
500
This school of thought is used because the true explanation of a culture can only be derived by examining members' decisions regarding human reproduction and economic production.
What is cultural materialism?
500
This is Durkheim's term to describe the condition of the industrial workers who seemed to be without any roots or norms as they struggle to survive daily.
What is anomie?
500
An overblown dependency or attachment to technology.
What is technosis?
500
This person focused on cultural materialism, studied the Japanese around WWII and wrote "Patterns of Culture".
Who is Ruth Benedict?
500
These societies are characterized by intensive agriculture through various technologies.