Sociological Imagination
This discipline is defined as the systematic study of society and social interaction.
What is Sociology
This discomfort/awareness occurs as a result of a difference or inconsistency when a person comes into contact with a culture that is foreign to them.
What is Culture Shock?
People base their ideas about who they are, their concept of self, on their images of how they think other people see them.
What is The Looking Glass Self?
People occupying the same space at the same time.
What is an Aggregate?
A violation of norms that is codified into law and punishable with formal sanctions.
What is Crime?
This person coined the term "positivism" and is widely considered the father of sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte
Americans value material success and achievement but not everyone has the same opportunity or access to education and work. This value of material success and achievement in the U.S. exemplifies _____ culture.
What is ideal?
A judge's gavel, a student's laptop, a police officer's gun, and a chef's apron.
What are Material Components of culture?
This researcher was concerned with our susceptibility to authority and conducted experiments that included electric shocks.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
In first grade, Scott is unfairly singled out by his teacher for bad behavior, partly because his older brothers had behavioral problems themselves. Throughout grade school, Scott gains a reputation as a “problem” child. Scott eventually drops out of school, thinking he was born to fail anyway. Which theory of deviance best fits Scott’s experience?
What is Labeling Theory?
This sociological perspective views society as a structure with interrelated parts meeting the needs of individuals who make up society.
What is Functionalism
The refusal of one religion to accept another as a valid religion is a form of ________.
What is Ethnocentrism?
In an effort to control a total institution, and to create a community of sameness, inmates are forced to strip down, be searched by police officers, and given identical uniforms before entering prison. This is an example of _______.
What is a Degradation Ceremony?
When Hayleigh starts high school, they join the basketball team. They begin to look to their teammate friends for cues on how to behave at dances, in the hallways, and even in the classroom. Hayleigh's basketball team is serving as Hayleigh's _____.
What is Reference Group?
This theory of deviance addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.
What is Strain Theory?
This type of research data might include in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources.
What is Qualitative Research
Jennifer putting aside their vegetarianism to eat meals with the local community they are studying is an example of _______.
What is Cultural Relativism?
This type of status might be exemplified by the daughter of a wealthy business person who plays the roles of an elite heiress.
What is an Ascribed Status?
Clear levels and divisions of labor, written rules and policy, communications and record keeping, and replaceability.
What is a Bureaucracy?
Which theorist would be most interested in who controls the media, and the ways in which the dominant race and class minimizes the media presence of the lower classes and other races?
What is Conflict Theorist?
This social theorist claimed that people rise to their proper level in society based solely on personal merit.
Who is Emile Durkheim
According to this hypothesis, language shapes our perceptions and influences our behaviors, therefore language gives us meaning.
What is The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
Sherry is in her mid-eighties and is moving to a nursing home. She is used to getting up at 5 o’clock each morning and making breakfast for herself. Her new roommate likes to sleep until 7 o’clock and breakfast is not served at the nursing home until 8 o’clock. What is Sherry most likely to experience through this transition?
What is Resocialization
Conforming to establish a relationship with a group.
What is Identification?
This is a form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observed is never communicated with directly.
What is Panoptic Surveillance or the Panopticon?