Building blocks
The ability to connect personal troubles with social issues
What is Sociological Imagination?
Oversimplifications about a group of people
What are stereotypes?
Tribe with strange body rituals described by Horace Miner
Who are the Nacirema?
There is a reality, and we can know it
What is positivism?
Most prevalent reason for prejudice today
What is political affiliation?
There is no reality, everything is socially constructed
What is strong social constructionism?
Negative feelings toward individuals based on group membership
What is prejudice?
Fake TV show involving fake electric shocks staged in this country
What is France?
Country of Thor Heyerdahl (the Anthropologist who sailed across the Pacific)
What is Norway?
Established patterns of interaction
What are social structures?
Example of heuristic method
What is rule of thumb, stereotypes, educated guesses, etc.?
Action (or nonaction) against an identifiable group
What is discrimination?
The author of the experiment involving electroshocks
Who was Stanley Milgram?
Our reality is constructed by people with power
What is critical theory?
Reason for prejudice during the pandemic
What is vaccination status?
The bear was constructed as a silly man wearing a fur-coat and needing this cosmetic operation
What is a shave?
Stereotypes used to oppress African American women
What are controlling images?
All cultures are legitimate ways of interacting with the environment and with other people
What is cultural relativism?
Not as violent as we believe it was.
What is the old west?
A tendency to prefer information that supports our preexisting beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
If men define situations as real, they become real in their consequences
What is Thomas Theorem?
Social experiment by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson
What is “Pygmalion in the Classroom”?
The main character of this cartoon found something that didn’t belong
What is The Lost Thing?
Capacity of words to have multiple meanings
What is polysemy?
Creators of today’s social structures
Who are “dead people before us”?