Social life
Then and Now
Meaning of Culture
Cultural Variation
Misc Vocab
100
The study of human society and social behavior.
What is Sociology
100
This Sociologist had the idea of Social Darwinism which is that societies evolve toward stabilty and perfection.
Who is Herbert Spencer
100
automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, computers...
What is material culture
100
viewing one's own culture and group as superior
What is ethnocentric
100
beliefs, family patterns, ideas, language
What is nonmaterial culture
200
ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life.
What is Sociological Imagination
200
These three sociologists belong to the Functionalist Perspective.
Who are Comte, Spencer, Durkheim
200
The combination of material culture and the rules to use it.
What is technology
200
belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.
What is cultural relativism
200
Creator of Sociological Imagination.
Who is C. Wright Mills
300
Social Science that studies the past and present cultures.
What is Anthropology
300
Perspective that views societies as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
What is Functionalist Perspective
300
Shared beliefs about what is good and bad or right or wrong.
What is values
300
Common features that are found in all human cultures.
What are cultural universals.
300
The game of football.
What is a culture complex
400
The Founder of Sociology
Who is Auguste Comte
400
Karl Marx belonged to this perspective that believed forces in society promoted competition and change.
What is the Conflict Perspective
400
individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.
What is a culture trait.
400
Group rejects the major vales, norms, and practices of the larger society.
What is counterculture
400
Perspective that focueses on how the individual interact through symbols and Symbolic Action
What is Interactionist Perspective.
500
What are the differences of Sociology and the other Social Sciences.
What are Sociology focuses on complex societies and social behavior while others focus on past culture or events, or political or economic systems.
500
Functionalists label negative consequences that desrupt society as
What is Dysfunctional
500
All of the components of culture.
What are Technology, symbols, language, values, and norms.
500
How are subcultures and countercultures related.
What is they are both smaller groups that share values with eachother. Subcultures might not consciously be different from the larger society but counter cultures are.
500
Baseball, basketball, football, soccer...
What is a culture pattern