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Basics of Sociology
Important Sociologists
Sociological Perspectives
Danger of a Single Story
Survivor
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This vocabulary term means "the patterned interactions of people in social relationships."
What is Social Structure?
100
This sociologist, the namesake of one of our teams, was first to use the term "Social Imagination."
Who is C. Wright Mills?
100
This key vocabulary term means "a particular point of view which determines our attitudes and beliefs."
What is Perspectives?
100
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED Talk "We Should All Be Feminists" was used in this famous pop song.
What is "Flawless," by Beyonce?
100
Shades of Symbolic Interactionism appear when the Survivors are taught about the importance of THIS - which they receive if they win competitions.
What is the Immunity Idol?
200
Social acceptance, peer pressure, values: these are all aspects of THIS phenomenon, which occurs in groups.
What is Conformity?
200
A favorite topic of Auguste Comte's, this rule stresses that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation. We should be “positive” or “sure”.
What is Positivism?
200
Each of the "Theoretical Perspectives" has a set of THESE, which it accepts as true.
What are Assumptions?
200
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is from this African nation.
What is Nigeria?
200
Rudy, revealing an undercurrent of Conflict Perspective in the relationships among the Survivors, believes he should have all the power and control over the others because he is THIS.
What is a retired Navy SEAL?
300
This field of study explores human relationships and the interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.
What is Sociology?
300
This idea of Herbert Spencer's, which is the opposite of his "social dynamics" that study social change, instead studies social stability and order.
What is Social Statics?
300
This is the REVERSE of the assumptions of the Functionalist Perspective
What is Conflict Perspective?
300
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie jokes that after reading Bret Easton Ellis' novel "American Psycho," she assumed all American men were serial killers - in response to a student who assumed all Nigerian men were THIS after reading her novel.
What are domestic abusers?
300
When Richard suggests the team prioritize a period of socializing among themselves at the outset of their experience, so that they can learn about one another and develop relationships which will help things run smoothly, he is showing a possible belief in THIS perspective.
What is Functionalist Perspective?
400
This study of government and its mechanisms is related to the Social Sciences.
What is Political Science?
400
This social class, as described by Karl Marx, is an economic class of great social influence for whom the Proletariat provide their labor.
What is the Bourgeoisie?
400
This important aspect of Symbolic Interactionism depicts human interaction as theatrical performance.
What is Dramaturgy?
400
Adichie invokes THIS sociological perspective, when she says that by starting our story of another culture with "secondly," we take away their power and make them appear less than us.
What is Conflict Perspective?
400
YOU FOUND OSCAR'S TOY!
This is the "Immunity Idol"
500
This key vocabulary terms refers to the VIEW that looks at the behavior of groups, not individuals.
What is the Sociological Perspective?
500
This idea of Emile Durkheim's, one of his two types of "Solidarity," describes social interdependency based on a high degree of specialization.
What is Organic Solidarity?
500
This concept from the Functionalist Perspective refers to a negative consequence of an aspect of society.
What is Dysfunction?
500
Adichie invokes THIS sociological perspective when she says if all we ever knew of "poor people" is one image we have been sent by our culture, we will assume that there is only one meaning we can take from the experience of the poor.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
500
When the team that loses the Immunity Idol and winds up having to vote someone off at Tribal Council chooses to vote off the person least physically prepared for the rigors of the Island, and the tie was between the two people least likely to develop relationships with the others, we are seeing THIS type of "function" at work, from the Functionalist Perspective.
What is Manifest Function?