Ch1 - Introduction
The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as this.
manifest functions
The fact that texting is based on a new and evolving set of symbols shows us this.
Culture changes over time.
This concept refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting.
Personality
This concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life.
Master Status
The framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and changes is this sociological approach.
Social conflict
___ are rules about everyday, casual living; ___ are rules with great moral significance.
Folkways; mores
Erik Erikson's view of socialization states personality develops this way.
Over the entire life course
When a surgeon chooses not to operate on her son because the personal involvement of motherhood could impair her professional objectivity as a physician, this is an example of ___.
Role Conflict
This theoretical approach claims that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as what meaning they attach to their behavior.
Symbolic interaction
Cultural change is set in motion by these three ways.
Invention, discovery, diffusion
When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they would like to join, they are engaging in a process called this.
Anticipatory socialization
Studying the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings in an approach called this.
Ethnomethodology
This research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview.
Survey
A middle-class person from suburban Philadelphia who criticizes an Amish farmer as being "backwards" for tilling fields with horses and a plow instead of using a tractor is displaying this.
Ethnocentrism
During industrialization in the U.S. and Western Europe, this happened with life expectancy.
Life expectancy went up
According to Goffman, we engage in this when we use costumes, props, tone of voice, and gestures to convey information to others.
Performance or Presentation of the Self
Critical sociology seeks to bring about this.
Desirable social change
This theoretical approach states that the stability of the U.S. society rests on the core values shared by most people.
Structural functional
According to Erving Goffman, the goal of a total institution it to do this.
Radically alter a person's personality or behavior
In the U.S. people stand farther away from one another when they are talking than two people would in a Middle Eastern nation. This pattern reveals differences in meaning attached to ___.
Personal Space