Old Men of Sociology
This is the father of sociology who suggested the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life.
Who is Auguste Comte?
This was the most important agent of socialization for your language, religious beliefs, and values.
What is family?
What is material culture?
Standard cultural behaviors learned formally and informally in groups.
What are norms?
Daily Double: receive double points for getting both answers.
Provide an example of how a teacher may use a positive sanction and a negative sanction.
Negative - Negative consequences (detention, etc.)
Positive - Rewards (praise, stickers, etc.)
She was one of the first to apply sociology to actual social reform, and was the founder of the Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
If you consider yourself an athlete, then you may list "athlete" as this type of status.
If you are a parent, you may use "parent".
If you have a very important job like President, then you may use "president".
What is master status?
The Pledge of Allegiance is said everyday in school, and there are phot frames of veteran alumni in the front hallway. These things help build patriotism and values of freedom and democracy without explicitly teaching it. This is an example of...
What is hidden curriculum?
You go to jail if you break these types of norms.
What are laws?
Totalitarians have strict control over their countries. Total institutions (like the military) have strict ______ and cut you off from ______.
What are rules; others.
This was an American sociologist who married sociology with race, and founded the N.A.A.C.P.
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
While you may use this term for boyfriends and girlfriends, its use in sociology is to represent anyone who has a profound influence in your life.
What is significant other?
This is an example of Culture Shock.
Varies (discomfort after/while experiencing a new culture)
Shouting racial slurs in the U.S. is an example of this
What is taboo?
A sign in your yard saying "Graduated with Honors!" or a Gucci purse are examples of status ______?
What are Status Symbols?
This "second founder of sociology" coined the term "survival of the fittest". His theory of society was firmly based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
You are being this if you look at a burka (total body covering for Muslim women) and conclude that Middle Eastern culture is much worse than yours since they "probably hate women".
What is ethnocentric?
If you look up the menu at a restaurant and on offer is sushi, burgers, hot dogs, lasagna, and curry; you are delighting in an example of which of the following:
Cultural Absolutism
Cultural Discovery
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Innovation
What is Cultural Diffusion?
Norms that are not strictly enforced nor carry moral significance are called this.
What are folkways?
Formal sanctions are explicitly written and lawful consequences. Provide an example of informal sanctions.
Varies (reactions to behaviors that are meant to enforce norms)
Karl Marx wrote that these were the two primary social classes.
What are the proletariat (working class) and bourgeoisie (capitalists, elite).
This hypothesis suggests that you may think differently about the relationship between men and women because if your language has many negative terms for women and many positive terms for men.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Give an example of how your grandparents might have experienced cultural lag.
Varied (changes in material culture faster than changes in non-material culture)
Assuming you live with just you and your parents, not wearing any clothes while walking around your house is most likely an example of this.
What is a more?
Double Points:
Give an example of an institution in the functionalist perspective of sociology and an action in the conflict perspective of sociology.