Unit 1
What is Conflict Theory?
Conflict theory holds that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than by consensus and conformity.
What is Material Culture?
Material culture refers to the physical aspects of a society, the objects made or modified by a human, these objects surround a people and its activities and are defined by their properties.
What is Ego?
A compromise between you superego and your id and the part of you that actually makes the decision.
What is Deviance?
What Sociology Term does Cady use when she said to Aaron his hair looks good pushed back?
Ego
What is Structural Functionalism?
Structural functionalism framework seeks to explain society as a complex system whose parts work together for stability and to promote solidarity.
What is Symbolic Culture?
Symbolic culture can be defined as an experience that signifies a culture.
What is Superego?
Definition of your best moral self.
What is Merton's Strain Theory?
Merton's strain theory was developed by Robert Merton in 1938 to understand why members of a society exhibit deviant behavior.
What Sociology group is Cady in when she felt like she needed to go to the Christmas dance?
Primary Group.
What is Postmodern Theory?
Postmodernism rejects concepts of rationality, objectivity, and universal truth. Instead it emphasizes the diversity of human experience and multiplicity of perspectives.
What is Dominant Culture?
The group whose members hold more power relative to other members in society.
What is Id?
Version of yourself that only seeks pleasure.
What is Primary Deviance?
Primary deviance is the first act of deviance that an individual commits in their lifetime.
What Sociology group is Cady in when she does not feel loyalty to the mathletes?
Secondary Group.
What is Sociological Imagination?
Sociological imagination is an ability to see the context which shapes your individual decision making as well as the decisions made by others.
What is Subculture?
A subculture is a term for a group of people within a society who hold different values from the society at large.
What is Looking Glass Self?
How they think others view them.
When does Anomie arise?
When there is a disconnect between culturally approved goals and the means available to achieve them.
Sociologists define deviance as what?
Any behavior that violates societal norms.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Symbolic interactionism is a micro-level theory that focuses on meanings attached to human interaction, both verbal and non-verbal, and to symbols.
What is Sapir Whorf Hypothesis?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis proposes that a person's native language restricts their ability to think about certain concepts.
What is Master Status?
A status that is always relevant and affects all other statuses we possess.
What is Secondary Deviance?
Secondary deviance is deviant behavior that results from being labeled as a deviant by society.
Labeling Theory emphasizes the role of what?
Others label the role of the deviant.