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JPC SCC Vocabulary
Sociology Exam#1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Functionalist | a society is viewed as a stable, orderly system |
| Conflict | groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources |
| Sybolic interactionists | focuses on the specific interaction among people |
| Cause and Effect | a relationship in which change in one variable causes a change in another |
| Independent Variable | the variable that causes the change |
| Dependent Variable | the variable that changes |
| Spurious Correlation | an apparent, although false, relationship between two (or more) variables caused by some other variable- a trivial or meaningless correlation |
| Culture | the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a people's way of life |
| Material Culture | the physical creations that members of a society make, use, and share |
| Symbols/Gestures | anything that meaningful represents someting else |
| 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 |
| Values | ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirablre in a particular culture |
| Norms | established rules of behavior |
| Mores | norms that may NOT by violated without serious consequences |
| Folkways | norms that may be violated without serious consequences |
| Laws | written norms |
| Ethnocentrism | the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
| Cultural Relativism | the practice of evaluating a culture by it's own standards |
| Society | people who interact in a defined territory and share a common culture |
| Resocialization | the process by which people abandon their old sleves and develop new ones |