Theory
The obvious stated reasons that a social institution exists.
Research conducted outside the lab, in the real world.
What are field experiments?
The ability to act and think independently of social constraints.
What is agency?
A researcher who developed a sociological theory of suicide. He looked at anomie - when a society's norms fail to regulate behavior and the bond between the individual and society breaks down and personal and societal standards fail to align.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Rigid social system that confines individuals to social groups for their lifetimes, assigning to them specific roles in a society with tight rules over the relationships between groups.
What is a caste system?
A macro-theoretical perspective that looks at society as a whole and focuses on the institutions, rather than the individuals, within it.
What is Structural Functionalism?
Research that makes use of nonnumerical data, such as words and images.
What is qualitative research?
What a society holds to be desirable, good and important.
What are values?
What is the absolutist perspective?
Occurs when changes in a society's institutions lead to upward or downward mobility for whole classes or groups of people.
What is structural mobility?
The idea from Karl Marx that argued workers collectively and individually did not understand that they and the owners had different self-interests. They were misled to believe that was was good for the owner also benefited them.
What is false consciousness?
What is sampling?
What is a counterculture?
Occurs when the deviant role takes over people's other social roles because others relate to them in response to their "spoiled identities".
What is role engulfment?
The country with the highest social mobility index.
What is Denmark?
Theory that recognizes many ways in which social rewards are unequally distributed between the haves and have nots.
What is the Conflict Perspective?
When people in their samples have characteristics typical of people in the broader population they seek to analyze.
What is representative?
When we experience competing demands within a particular social role and status.
When people interact with a felon solely in relation to their primary status as a felon, as opposed to also a hard worker, mother, sister, etc.
What is master status?
The percentage of total U.S. income held by the top 1% in 2018.
What is 20.5%
A micro-level theory that examines how individuals develop a sense of self and are in relation to others. It looks at how we construct meaning and how this is constructed and shared in a group through the use of symbols.
What is symbolic interaction?
A type of research that systematically studies how groups of people live and make meaning by understanding the group from its own point of view.
What is ethnography?
A type of capital related to education, style, appearance, and dress that promotes social mobility.
What is cultural capital?
Denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of victim, condemning the condemners, appeal to higher loyalties.
What are techniques of neutralization (dealing with deviant identities)?
Whose wealth equals 3 Mt. Everests of toberon chocolate triangles.