Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
SOC 100- Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 4 perspectives on human life | biological, psychological, social, cultural |
| interpenetration | each higher level (BPSC) can affect those below it |
| emergence | each higher level is influenced by those below it |
| the sociological imagination | the ability to see the relationship between individual and the larger society |
| ____are transformed into____ | personal problems, public issues |
| functionalist | society viewed as a stable, orderly system |
| conflict | groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources |
| inter-related parts; group as a whole, responsible for failures | functionalist |
| social inequality, competition among parts, not responsible for failures | conflict |
| symbolic-interaction approach | interpersonal communication in micro-level social settings (how people create reality) |
| ways of knowing (5) | faith, authority, tradition, ESP, science |
| assumptions (2) | all perceptions are achieved through the senses; people can trust their perceptions, memory, and reasoning |
| sociology | the study of society based on systematic observation of social behavior |
| spurious correlation | a trivial or meaningless correlation |
| ultimate vs. scientific truth | sociologists use science to establish scientific truth |
| culture | the ways of thinking, acting, and material objects that together form a people's way of life |
| to be material culture... | it has to be useful & important to us (tractors in India) |
| nonmaterial culture (4) | symbols, languages, values, norms |
| material culture | the physical creations that members of a society make, use, and share |
| symbols/gestures | anything meaningful that represents something else |
| illustrators | enhance speech |
| emblems | a picture that represents a concept |
| obscene gestures | angry, homosexual, infidelity |
| language | a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another |
| Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | language shapes the view of reality of its speakers "different languages=different worlds" |
| values | ideas about what is right/wrong, good/bad, desirable/undesirable in a particular culture |
| examples of values | freedom, equality, achievement, group superiority |
| who watched the superbowl? | 3/4 of class, 264 nations, 1 billion people |
| Superbowl lecture | conflict perspective (some benefitted, some didn't) |
| reason for college in '69 vs now | meaningful philosophy vs. well off financially (raising a family-> stable) |
| norms | established rules of behavior |
| mores | norms that may NOT be violated w/out serious consequences |
| folkways | norms that MAY be violated w/out serious consequences |
| laws | written norms |
| ___% of the class thinks things have gotten worse (in the US) in the past decade | 61% (majority) |
| subculture | cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population (jazz musicians, computer nerds) |
| counterculture | cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society (KKK, flower children) |
| ethnocentrism | the practice of judging another's culture by the standards of one's own; assuming one's way of life is superior to others' good for being patriotic |
| cultural relativism | the process of evaluating a culture by its own standards (not necessarily embracing it) good for understanding others |
| sociobiological perspective | the large number of cultural universals reflects that we are all one species; random variation occurs to create a "dominant" |
| sociobiological example | men are promiscuous (more than women) because they can easily spread their genes |
| queen anne game concept | we use learning experiences to solve new problems, but once we have learned in a particular way, it is difficult to change the way we solve them |
| nature | the study of how biology affects human behavior |
| nurture | the study of how leaning affects human behavior |
| socialization | the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture (we internalize culture- it limits our choices) |
| nature/nurture sociobiologists vs. sociologists | sociobiologists- close to middle (closer to nurture) sociologists- almost completely nurture |
| Kinch's self concept theory | individual's perception->self concept->behavior->response of others (repeat) |
| in Kinch's self concept theory, how do you change it? | change your behavior |
| Cooley's looking glass self | a self image based on how we think others see us |
| can we see the world objectively? | sociologists: no! |
| when does personality develop? | ober the entire life of the individual |
| 4 agents of socialization | family, school, peers, mass media (new) |
| industrialized maturity | occurs over a long period of time compared to technologically simple societies |
| how many people watch TV everyday? | ~3/4 |
| what % of leisure time is spent watching TV? | 40% |
| ____hours of TV per day | 2.5 |
| ____hours of TV per day (2-3 year olds) | 4.4 |
| resocialization | the process by which people abandon their old selves and develop new ones |
| voluntary resocialization | willingly changing habits |
| involuntary resocialization | an outside influence changes your habits |
| total institution | a place where people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and come under the control of officials |
| examples of involuntary resocialization | prisons, mental hospitals, sequestered juries, POW camps |
| how did the Chinese brainwash POWs? | used their values against them-> blacks, leaders removed; secrets revealed (turned against one another); many died of depression/illness |
Created by:
melaniebeale
Popular Psychology sets