Intro
What is the study of society and social interactions?
Sociology
What is the 1st step of the scientific method?
ask a question about a topic
Irrational, fear or hatred of another culture
Xenophobia
The theoretical perspective that views society as having a system of interdependent inherently connected parts
Functionalism
patterns of behavior that we recognize in each other
roles
A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined ares, share a culture, and who:
interact
A measurement is considered__ if it actually measures what it is intended to measure, according to the topic of the study
reliable
Existence of social norms, both formal and informal, is one of the main things that inform __, otherwise known as encouraging social conformity.
Social control
What type of society follow their animals and the animals are central to their lives?
Pastoral Society
A status that you do NOT select
Ascribed
Which founder of sociology believed societies change due to class struggle?
Karl Marx
A group of boys are fed donuts every day for a week and then weighed to see how much weight they gained. What is the dependent variable?
weight gained
Cultural patterns of society’s elite
high culture
Which society was the 1st to have permanent residents?
horticultural society
A status that you obtain by choice
Achieved
Max Weber believed humans could not be studied purely objectively because they were influenced by:
their culture
What is the study of how subjects view themselves in relation to their community? (Vankatesh)
Ethnography
Groups that reject society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
counterculture
Fulfills essential social needs/functions. If it no longer serves a role, it will die away
social institutions
HS student gets teased by her basketball team for receiving an academic award, she is dealing with competing__
Primary groups
Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic Interactionist?
participant observation
What is the term for when people change their behavior when they know they are being watched?
Hawthorne Effect
Groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority
subculture
According to Marx, the __ own the means of production in a society
Bourgeoisie
A group whose values, norms, and beliefs come to serve as a standard for one’s own behavior
Reference Group