Vocab/Terms
Definition of Conformity
What is society following norms and expectations?
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
What is physical appearances, Cultural and heritage, and where you where born?
credited as the founder of sociology
Who is Auguste Comte?
theory
A social theory that is used to explain society, interactions, morals, and change?
largest living millipede species
what is Giant African Millipede?
Definition of Deviance
What is society going against social norms and expectations?
Mores
What is norms, customs, aspects, and behaviors that are accepted to a society and a social group?
Did not consider themselfs to be a sociologist
Who is Karl Marx?
conflict theory
What is viewing society based on power, social inequality, and struggle to maintain resources?
What is Sinclaires favorite food
What is Rice Cakes?
Defiine Symbolic Interactions
What is our daily interactions creating our views on reality and the world?
Folkways
What is informal norms common in everyday life? These are shared and based down in generations and social groups?
used cross culture and historical material to see social change
Who is Max Weber?
social networks
What are relationships that are correlated and connected between individuals, groups, and organizations?
Main appetite of Millipedes
What is decaying wood?
Definition of Sovereignty
What is a political concept that determines and shows authority/power?
Taboos
What is being prohibited or strongly talked down on. Often leading to social consequences?
Dedicated their life to studying relations between races
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
Symbolic interactionism theory
What is a theory that focuses on creating and developing meanings/morals through interactions?
Amount of legs per body segment on Millipedes.
2 pairs per segment? (four legs)
define social stratification
What is how society categorizes people based on factors such as wealth, race, power, ect?
why does Ethnocentrism appear?
What is society understanding their own culture the most, leading to them being biased towards other cultures, norms, and aspects?
Often referred to as the second founder of sociology, and believed that helping the poor was wrong.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
conflict functionalist theory
What is Seeing society as corresponding parts that work together. This is related to cooperation and stability?
Where are Giant african Millipedes located
Where is Western Africa?