Intro Sociology
What is the systematic study of society and social interactions
sociology
All the ways of life including values, beliefs, arts, and institutions that are passed down from generation to generation
Culture
A violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law.
Deviance
a term that describes shared culture—the practices, values, and beliefs of a group.
Ethnicity
a stronger type of prejudice used to justify the belief that one racial category is somehow superior or inferior to others.
Racism
A theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources
Conflict Theory
refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people. Metro passes and bus tokens are part of material culture, as are automobiles, stores, and the physical structures where people worship
Material Culture
What would be an example of deviance?
Answers will vary
race is not biologically identifiable and that previous racial categories were arbitrarily assigned, based on pseudoscience, and used to justify racist practices.
Social construction of race
consists of actions against a group of people, can be based on age, religion, health, and other indicators.
discrimination
A theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up society
Functionalism/ Functionalist Theory
encompasses the intangible aspects of a society’s way of life including ideas, beliefs, values, norms and social structures
non-material culture
Societies practice social control to maintain ________.
What is social order
any group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
Minority group
is the practice of routinely refusing mortgages for households and businesses located in predominately minority communities.
redlining
A wide-scale view of the role of social structures within society
What type of analysis is this?
Macro Level Analysis
the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one’s own culture.
cultural relativism
Theory which states that deviance arises from individuals who normalize deviant behavior around them.
Differential Association Theory
suggests that the dominant group will displace its unfocused aggression onto a subordinate group.
scapegoat theory
is the deliberate annihilation of a targeted (usually subordinate) group, is the most toxic intergroup relationship.
genocide
Theory which analyzes how individuals use language in society to create shared meaning.
symbolic interactionism
Culture that is part of a larger culture that has its own beliefs, values, and material culture. They do not necessarily reject the values of the overall larger culture.
subculture
Theory which states that deviant behavior arises when individuals try to reach societies definition of success but are unable to through legal means, so they resort to deviant behavior.
Strain Theory
oversimplified generalizations about groups of people.
stereotypes
Process where a minority group starts to adopt the overall culture and the values, beliefs, of the dominant culture which can lead to a loss of their original culture.
Assimilation