Introduction
Issues that affect large groups of people
What are social issues?
Norms, policies, and expectations you might learn in school
Hidden curriculum
A discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages
Redlining
Physical items that people attach meaning to
Material culture
Your primary agent of socialization throughout life
family
Temporary group that often to achieve a task or goal
Secondary groups
A hands off type of leader
Laissez faire
The movement of a person from one social status to another, whether up or down the social hierarchy
Vertical mobility
This pits people of color against one another and creates a hierarchy in which Asian people are often represented at the top for example
Model Minority Myth
An organization or establishment founded for a specific purpose
Institution
Ways to enforce social norms
Name of the brothers in Three Identical Strangers
Bobby, Eddy, and David
The separation of people based on laws and policies
De Jure Segregation
Who created the list of core American values in the 1970's
Who is Robin Williams?
A process that changes an individual's identity and removes them from a group
Degradation ceremony
In this theory you are looking at micro level interactions
Symbolic Interactionism
Individuals form their view of themselves based on how they believe they appear to others
Looking glass Theory
Informal neighborhoods in Brazil that are often translated as "slums"
Favelas
They are a set of rules that govern how people interact in casual situations, such as when meeting someone new
Folkways
The sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair
Urban decay
The theory that explains how people perceive the causes of events and behaviors.
Attribution theory
Opposed Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development as he did not look at women's perspectives
Carol Gilligan
This was passed in the early 1930's to help the average American buy a home in the wake of the Great Depression
National Housing Act of 1934
Imagine you are traveling to a country where the cultural norms are very different from what you're used to. When you arrive, you encounter a situation that surprises or confuses you. This is an example of someone experiencing...
Culture Shock
In this theory developed by George Herbert Mead, this is basically the part of you that society sees and is your more socialized self
Me