Foundation
A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who share a common culture.
What is society?
It's the scientific study of social patterns.
What is Positivism?
It refers to the integration of international trade and finance markets.
What is Globalization?
It is the process through which people are taught to be proficient members of society by describing the ways that people come to understand societal norms/expectations, to accept society’s beliefs, and to be aware of societal values.
What is socialization?
Is a socioeconomic system that divides society’s members into categories ranking from high to low, based on things like wealth, power, and prestige
What is Social Stratification?
It's the essential tool in research that includes: Ask a question, Research Existing Sources, Formulate a Hypothesis, Design and Conduct Study, Draw Conclusions, Report Results
What is the Scientific Method?
This person believed societies grew as a result of struggles of different social and political classes. Predicted that social change came through social conflict.
Who is Karl Marx?
It is a violation of contextual, cultural, or social norms.
What is deviance?
The owners of the means of production in society.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
Is a comparison of the wealth, economic stability, status, and power of countries as a whole. Refers to the unequal distribution of resources between countries.
What is Global Stratification?
It's an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.
What is sociological imagination?
Focused on the mind and the self, and indicated that our identity is developed through interactions with others.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
It is an arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives.
What is Social Order?
The way people learn what society considers to be “good” and “bad”, important for a smoothly functioning society.
What is Moral Development?
Is a pattern that occurs when women bear a disproportionate percentage of the burden of poverty.
What is the Global Feminization of Poverty?
It seeks to understand social worlds from the point of view of participants. This approach is not based on hypothesis testing.
What is Interpretive Framework?
The three paradigms or perspectives dominate much of sociological discussions.
What are Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism?
It's that social control is directly affected by the strength of social bonds and that deviance results from a feeling of disconnection from society.
What is Marx's Conflict Theory?
Are societies that operate on a strict hierarchical system of power based around land ownership and protection?
What are Feudal societies?
Is a theory that low-income countries can improve their global economic standing by industrialization of infrastructure and a shift in cultural attitudes towards work.
What is Modernization Theory?
It helps us interpret our own experiences, our backgrounds and circumstances, and things that occur in our lives.
What is Sociology?
It addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.
What is Strain Theory?
It is the ascribing of a deviant behavior to another person by members of society.
What is Labeling Theory?
It is the belief that modern society should be built around logic and efficiency rather than morality or tradition.
What is rationalization?
This was developed to center people—not just finances—as the core determinants of a nation's or region's discussions about economic opportunities, support, and policies.
What is the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)?