The Study of Society
The study of society.
What is Sociology?
The looking glass self
what is The self that emerges as a consequence of seeing how others perceive you?
Doing Identity: the active performance of social identity.
What is performing?
Private or semiprivate spaces in which we can relax or rehearse.
What is backstage
Strain Theory
What is the idea that deviance is caused by a tension between widely valued goals and people's ability to attain them.
In depth Interviews.
What is a research method that involves an intimate conversation between a researcher and a research subject.
Cultural relativism
What is The practice of noting the differences between cultures without passing judgment
Controlling Images
Folkways
What are loosely enforced norms?
Neutralization Theory
What is The idea that deviance is facilitated by the development of culturally resonant rationales for rule breaking.
Sociology's lens for looking at the world.
- Intersections of history and biography
What is the sociological Imagination?
a story we tell about the origin and likely future of ourselves
What is our Self Narratives
In-Group Bias
Preferential treatment of members of our own group and mistreatment of others.
Dramaturgy
What is The practice of looking at social life as a series of performances in which we're actors on metaphorical stages?
Collective Conscience
What is A society's shared understanding of right and wrong?
The idea that societies aren't characterized by shared interests but by competing ones
Culture-as-value
What is The idea that we are socialized into culturally specific moralities that guide our feelings about right and wrong. Values that are common, widely shared become part of our world view. Violation = Passionate, visceral responses.
The claim that members of our group are superior to members of other groups.
Efforts to control how we're perceived by others.
What is Impression Management?
The idea that we need to be recruited into and taught criminal behavior by people in our social networks.
What is the Differential Association Theory
Historical Sociology
What is a research method that involves collecting and analyzing data about past events?
The idea that we're socialized to know a set of culturally specific arguments which we can justify why we feel something is right or wrong. Ex. We don't just feel emotion when our culture is challenged; we rationalize why we are correct
What is the Culture-as-rationale Thesis
Social Identity Theory
What is the idea that people are inclined to form social groups, incorporate group membership into their identity, take steps to enforce group boundaries, and maximize positive distinction, and in-group success.
gently persuading someone who has lost face to accept a less desirable but still reasonable alternative identity
What is Cooling out?
The idea that deviance is more common in dysfunctional neighborhoods.
What is the Social Disorganization Theory