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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |