Ch 1
A sense of disorientation that occurs when entering a radically new social or cultural environment.
Culture shock
A procedure for acquiring knowledge that emphasizes collecting concrete data through observation and experimentation.
Scientific Method
Rules or guidelines regarding what kinds of behavior are acceptable and appropriate within a particular culture
Norms
Position in a social hierarchy that carries a particular set of expectations
Status
The legitimate right to wield power
Authority
A quality of mind that allows us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and larger social forces.
Sociological Imagination.
Blank is a relationship between variables in which they change together, but that change may not be causal.
Blank is a relationship between two variables in which a change in one directly produces a change in another.
Correlation
Causation
A norm so ingrained that even thinking about violating it evokes strong feelings of disgust, horror, or revulsion
Taboo
The process of evoking, suppressing or otherwise managing feeling to create a publicly observable display of emotion
Emotional Labor
Milgram Experiment
Sociologist who coined the term 'anomie', and who also studied suicide.
Emile Durkheim
A research method based on studying people in their own environment in order to understand the meanings they attribute to their activities and life.
Ethnography
Clashes within mainstream society over the values and norms that should be upheld and promoted
Culture War
The effort to control the impressions we make on others so that they form a desirable view of us and the situation
Impression management
A group that provides a standard of comparison against which we evaluate ourselves or the groups we are studying
Reference Group
Conflict theory sociologist interested in inequality, capitalism, means of production, false consciousness, and class consciousness.
For research to be ethical, researchers must obtain this which is a safeguard through which researchers make sure respondents are freely participating and understand the nature of the research.
Informed Consent
The idea that language structures and the ways of making sense of the world are embedded in language
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Freud's components of the mind
Id, ego, and superego
Two person social group
Dyad
A major sociological paradigm that sees interaction and meaning as central to society and assumes that meanings are not inherent, but rather created through interaction.
Symbolic Interactionism
Two broad types of sociological research.
Quantitative
Qualitative
The imposition of ones culture's beliefs and practices on another culture through media and consumer products as opposed to military force
Cultural Imperialism
Mead's stages of development
Preparatory stage, play stage, and game stage
The application of economic logic to human activity; the use of formal rules and regulations in order to maximize efficiency without consideration of subjective or individual concerns
Rationalization