KEY TERMS 1
The often unearned advantages that come with being part of a dominant societal group
What is privilege?
The lens of values and beliefs through which a people views reality.
What is culture?
This theory posits that all parts of society are interconnected and interdependent.
What is functionalism?
The two socioeconomic classes according to conflict theory.
What are the bourgeoisie and proletariat?
The often unofficial rules of a society that dictate how people should behave.
What are norms?
A culture in which sexual violence is treated as the norm and victims are blamed for their own assaults.
What is rape culture?
A sorority member wears a pin indicating her membership, which is an example of this.
What is a status symbol?
A system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress, and exploit women.
What is patriarchy?
Anything that is determined through human social interaction rather than being based in scientific fact.
What is a social construct?
The behaviours, attitudes and social markers ascribed to men and women by society.
What are gender roles?
systematic errors in the process of drawing conclusions from our observations that may lead to inaccurate or imprecise knowledge
What is bias?
Sociologists say the family is critical in shaping who we are. This is known as _____ in sociology.
What is the primary socialising agent?
The theorist who said, “It is the material conditions in which people live that determines the organisation of society, and changing the means of production brings socio-economic change”
Who is Karl Marx?
This theory suggests that reality is not objective, but is constantly being constructed.
What is symbolic interactionism?
A framework that helps us see the underlying societal causes of individual experiences and issues.
What is the sociological imagination?
The five major agents of secondary socialisation.
What are peer groups, media, schools, government, and religious institutions?
Give an example of a Canadian social norm and an associated value it teaches.
open ended
In functionalist theory, these are unintended or unrecognised consequences of a structure or institution.
x2 points: give an example
What are latent functions?
E.g. Love Island reinforces the sexualisation of women and rigid binary gender roles.
The definition of intersectionality.
x2 POINTS: Who coined the term intersectionality?
What is
the overlap and interconnectedness of social identities that creates a complex convergence of oppression?
x2 POINTS: Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Mechanisms or patterns of social order focused on meeting social needs.
Provide an example.
What are institutions?
Example: school, family, government, religion
Three questions a micro sociologist might ask about TikTok use.
Open-ended, but here are some examples:
- how do virtual communities form on Tiktok?
- how are norms established in comment sections? What are these norms?
- what types of videos go viral and why?
- What are the mechanisms through which users exert influence on each other?
- How is ___ community represented on Tiktok? What factors are leading to/upholding this representation?
An individual’s position relative to others in a group/society. Characterised by certain benefits & responsibilities.
What is status?
This theory suggests that we develop an idea of who we are based on how we think we appear to others
What is the Looking Glass Self
The emphasis on Western history, literature, and culture in Canadian high schools is an example of this theory.
What is cultural hegemony?
Any enduring, predictable pattern of social relations among people in a society that constrains, transforms, and shapes people’s behaviour.
What is social structure?