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BennettMilligan
Term | Definition |
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Conformity | Changing behavior to fit in with a group. |
Symbolic Interactionism | The way people interact with each other through symbols. |
Manifest Function | An action that produces an intended result. |
Harriet Matineau | She compared the oppression of women in society to slavery in the past. |
Mechanical Solidarity | Consensus of Values, A great dependency on the family and the community enforced conformity to rules of behavior. |
Informal Sanction | Sanctions distributed by any members of society. |
Real Culture | Is what is really happening is society, How people really act. |
Cultural Universal | The culture traits that exist in all cultures around the world. (cooking, child car, wedding ceremonies.) |
Sociological Perspective | It looks at the behavior of groups not individuals It focuses on the behavior of people at the social level. |
Folkways | Norms with little moral significance (table manners) |
Funtionalism | It emphasizes the contributions of each part of society and how they work together for the good of society. |
Social Dynamics | Examples of great social change |
Conflict Theory | |
Jane Addams | She helped poor people in the inner cities of America, she really helped poor children. The full house. |
Social Statics | The study of social stability and order. How stable is a society? |
Verstehen | Understanding social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others. To understand someone else's perspective |
Ideal Culture | The good cultural guidelines that most members within a society claim to accept. |
Cultural Particulars | Particular ways a culture expresses universal traits. (Southern Cooking, Southern Accents.) |
Sociobiologist | tHE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR AND ITS CONNECTION TO BIOLOGY and genetics |
Ethnocentrism | Judging others form a view of Cultural Superiority, Most people believe their culture is better than others. |
Latent Function | An action that produces an intended result. |
Social Darwnism | |
Organic Solidarity | Social interdependency with highly specialized roles, weaker family ties. |
Formal Sanction | |
Dysfunction | A negative consequence of society (crime, red tape, racism) |
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | Our languages controls our perception of the world. The more important an item is to our society the more words will be produced to a label that item. |
Karl Marx | The creator of social stability and order. How stable is a society? |
Mores | Norms with great moral significance (Murder) |
Culture | The knowledge, values, physical object and customs shared by the members of a society. |