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Sociology Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Facework | AFTER situation has occured |
| Indirect Socialization | TV, Movies, Music; Secondary |
| Direct Socialization | Parents, Close Friends; Primary |
| Emoji | Symbolism of emotions, culture based |
| Meme | Lowkey sarcasm of spreading truth, culture based |
| Egocenturism | Early Childhood, "Kayneism", self centered |
| Resocilalization | process of unlearning old habits, learning new habits, degradation ceremony |
| Anticipatory Socialization | Occupying a role before you're in it, anticipating what comes of a role |
| Degradation Ceremony | unlearning process |
| Culture | learned values, beliefs, shared attitudes |
| Innovation | Invention --> mass market product |
| Diffusion | Societies share components of culture |
| Survey | Pros:Inexpensive Cons: Low Response Rate |
| Naturalistic Observation | Field Observation, no interference |
| Experiment | can prove CAUSATION, independent and dependent variables |
| Lowest Crime Index in FL | highest crime rate, Miami (same as Detroit) |
| Sociological Imagination | seeing connection & disconnection between self and surrounding society |
| Deviant Behavior | frowned upon, formal and informal views, dependent on sex, geographics, age, and race etc. |
| Sanction | Positive & Negative, Formal: Employee of the month ; Informal: Hug, High Five Formal: Prison ; Informal: timeout |
| Reference Group | people whom share values, friends/coworkers, dont always have to be apart of your reference group, can have mutiple |
| Pop-Culture | popular culture, media |
| Counter-Culture | KKK, and culture that is a very hard opposite of what Pop culture is at the time |
| Subcultures | specific lifestyles someone works at being, Nurse, Student, Gymnast |
| Correlation | some connection between 3 things, no exact proof |
| Causation | Cause and Effect |
| SES | Social Status, Economic, Education |
| Rebellion | New Means, completely getting rid of old means |
| Retreatism | giving up on the means |
| Innovation | "Strain theory" keeping goals, using deviant means |
| Material Culture | tangible objects |
| Non-Material Culture | Learning how to use materialistic objects |
| Cultural Lag | the time difference between non-material and material culture; material is coming faster than we know how to use it |
| Authoritative Parents | Warm, Firm rules |
| Authoritarian Parents | My way or the high way, no explanation, cold, a lot of rules |
| Permissive Parents | bestfriends with kids, very few rules |
| Uninvolved Parents | Not warm, not cold, no rules, just not there |
| Feudal System | Kings & Queens times, peasants live on land and in return work & give to owner of land |
| Caste System | Ascribed; closed, born into |
| Open System | Achieved; will vs. will nots, work to get |
| Key & Peele Videos | symbolism in the hats, newer is better |
| Role Strain | Strain on one statues |
| Role Conflict | Stress between 2 or more roles/statuses |
| Dramaturgical Approach | Front stage, back stage |
| Functionalists | purpose towards the society, benefits/ negatives |
| Conflict Theorists | Inequality in society |
| Feminists Theorists | Sex Differences, male/female problems |
| Symbolic Interactionists | Symbolic/shared meanings, between 1 or 2 people |
| Looking Glass Self | how we think others see us, usually very wrong, we think less of ourself |
| Role Taking | taking on views of others, very beneficial to ourselves and society |
| Achieved Status | Works for |
| Ascribed Status | Born into |
| Master Status | Most important to you, top role of statuses, our top can be different from what someone else thinks our master status is |
| Gender vs. Sex | Masculine/ feminine vs. male/female |
| Values | Self important |
| Folkways | Society Norms |
| Mores | Laws from a long time ago, still used in today |
| WEB DuBoise & knowledge | MOST IMPORTANT thing in life is knowledge |
| Social sciences | Criminologists, Economists, Political Scientists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Sociologists |
| Gobbledygook vs Euphemisms | nonsense big words vs. nicer words for less desirable things |
| Organized Crime | can escape punishment because of money |
| White Collar | Few individuals acquiring money for persons |
| Cyber Crime | scamming someone, identity theft |
| Status Inconsistency | teacher while being a student at the same time |
| Cultural Relativism | not judging someone or something from the outiside |
| Deductive Reasoning | General to specific |
| Inductive Reasoning | Specific to general |
| Glass Ceiling | feminists, invisible cap of vertical mobility |
| Internet Addiction Disorder | more popular, similar scans to a person addicted to cocaine; internet cafes in Asia |
| Wealth | your money makes you money, passed through generations |
| Proletariat | working class, effort to make businesses possible |
| Culture Shock | change in culture, disorienting, disturbing |
| 3 Ps | Prosperity, Power, Prestige |
| Pluralism vs. Multiculturalism | Miami has many different cultures inside of American Culture vs everybody expresses value of least represented values |
| Emotional Labor | maintain emotions to assist, happens in backstage |
| Biologist | Genetics and Nature |
| Sociologists | Environment and Nurture |
| Karl Marx | anti-capitalism, socialism, communism, have vs have nots |
| Charles Darwin | evolutionary theory, natural selection |
| Random Sample | probability, sample group, total random |
| Theories | not 100%, derived from past experiments, guide us |
| Vertical Change in Mobility | CNA --> RN |
| Horizontal Change in Mobility | Cashier to Cashier |
| Primary Social Groups | Direct, Parents, Intimate |
| Secondary Social Groups | Indirect, coworkers, less intimate |
| Narcotizing Dysfunction | takes important situation and talks about it so much people stop listening |
| Ego Iceberg | ID (desires) vs. Super Ego (Morals), Ego is a balance of ID and Super Ego |
| Social Classes | 7 social classes, 4 major classes |
| Structural/ Demographic/ Individual Factors | changes in economy and government/ education, gender, race, ethnicity/family background |
| McDonaldization | efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control |
| Cultural Universals | difference on how to handle different cultures |
| Culture War | when values, beliefs, etc. fight over which cultures beliefs are right |
| Zimbardo Study | assigned roles in the prison based on personalities, and watched how someone embodies the roles given to them |
| Manifest Function | tended to be seen and noted, expected to pay at a restaurant |
| Latent Function | receive outside info, work for experience |
| Groupthink | agree to something to not have to think about it on your own |
| Empirical Data | information that was been tried and proven |
| Failures of Social Networks | failed relationships, personality deficiencies |