Research
This is the first stage of the sociological research process.
What is choosing a research topic?
This is the process by which people learn gender role expectations, as deemed appropriate by their society.
What is gender socialization?
A field of study that systematically studies the relationship between the individual and society and the consequences of difference.
What is sociology?
It is claimed in this theoretical perspective that society is like a living organism with its various parts working together for the good of the whole.
What is the functional perspective?
The type of society in which people live off the land, relying on whatever foods and fibers are readily available in order to survive.
What is a foraging society?
A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society, yet they still participate in society at large.
What is a subculture?
A research method in which the researcher creates an artificial situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
What is an experiment?
The people, groups and institutions that teach us cultural beliefs, values and norms.
What are agents of socialization?
An awareness of the relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives.
What is the sociological imagination?
These theorists believe that society is socially constructed through everyday social engagement between individuals.
What is the interaction perspective?
People raise and herd sheep, goats, camels, or other domesticated animals, and use them as their major source of food and economic exchange in this form of society.
What is pastoral society?
The process by which a cultural item spreads from one society to another, such as the spread of anime from Japan to the U.S.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is a pattern of behavior associated with large group settings where people are less likely to act if they think others will do so.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
A group of people who share a common culture and social organization, and who live in a defined geographic area.
What is a society?
Sociologists who focus on the big picture, including study of social institutions, and social, political and economic change.
Who are macrosociologists?
What is agricultural society?
Walking down the right hand side of the hallway, holding doors open for others, sitting in chairs in the classroom, showering daily and saying "hello" to people are examples of this type of norm.
What are folkways?
In a hypothesis, this is the variable that is affected, because change in it depends on the influence of another variable.
What is a dependent variable?
This term is defined as behaviors that violate social norms, and which typically arouse negative social reactions.
What is deviance?
A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, power and prestige.
What is social inequality?
This perspective emphasizes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing, money, access to services and political representation.
What is the conflict perspective?
The economic sector that dominates in post-industrial societies.
What is the service (or tertiary) sector?
The tendency to assume that one's own cultural practices and beliefs are superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
The research method that Jane is using when she sits in elementary school classrooms and systematically watches the ways in which teachers interact with male vs. female students.
What is observation research?
This is the idea that whether a behavior is considered deviant depends on the circumstance (group, society or era) in which the behavior occurs and not on the behavior itself.
What is the relativity of deviance?
An individual's social and physical traits which are deemed important by society, such as their gender, race, social class and religion, which influence their interactions, opportunities and outcomes.
What is social location?
This level of analysis stresses the study of small groups, everyday experiences and social interactions between individuals.
What is the microsociology?
Use of machines to produce tangible goods in factories, increased manufacturing and the growth of the division of labor are all associated with this form of society.
What is industrial society?
Textbooks, computers, coffee mugs, hockey sticks, sock monkeys and other tangible parts of society.
What are material culture?