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1. What is Habitulization?
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Sociology

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1. What is Habitulization? The thought that society is created by humans and human interaction
2. What are habits? any action that is repeated frequently that becomes cast into a pattern which can then be performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort
3. What is Institutionalization? the act of implanting a convention or norm into society Ex. Thomas theorem: if men define situations as real., they are real in consequences
4. Can peoples behavior be affected by subjective reality? Peoples behavior can be determined by their subjective construction of reality rather than by objective reality
5. What is a Self-fulfilling prophecy- states that our moral codes and social norms are created by successive definitions of the situation Ex.Even a false idea can become true if it is acted on
6. What are Roles- They are patters of behavior that we recognize in each other that are representative of a persons social status ex daughter, father
7. What is Status- the access to resources and benefits a person experiences according to the rank or prestige of his or her role in society and are “Ascribed- those you do not select, such as a son and “Achieved status- obtained by personal effort or choice
8. What is Role strain- too much is required of a single role
9. What is Role conflict- when one or more roles contradictory
10. What is Role performance- is how a person expresses his or her role
11. What is Goffman theory of “dramaturgy”? stated that we uses “impression management” to present ourselves to others as we hope to be perceived. Drama queens.
12. Impression management?- critical component of symbolic interactionism Ex. Judge has many props to vreat an impression of fairness
13. Looking-glass self-? we base our image on what we think other people see, we imagine how we must appear to others, then react to this speculation.
14. What did Cooley believed? that our sense of self is not based on some internal source of individuality, rather we imagine how we look to others, draw conclusions basaed on their reactions to us, and then develop our personal sense of self
15. What are Elements of culture? Values and beliefs
16. What are Values- a cultures standard for discerning what is good and just in society
17. What s belief are the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
18. How values and beliefs relate? People in a society can have different beliefs but share common values. Difference between Canadian and American values Americans said to have an individualistic culture vs a collective Canadian culture
19. Ideal and real culture, whats the difference? Values portray an ideal culture- the standards society would like to embrace and live up to Ideal culture differs from real culture Real culture is the way society actually is, based on what occurs and exists.
20. What are Sanctions? are a form of social control, a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms People who don’t follow society values are often punished
21. What do Norms do? Norms define how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as good, right, and important, and most members of the society adhere to them
22. What is the difference between Formal and informal norms: formal are - established, written rules like laws, employee manuals, college entrance exam requirements and are enforced to varying degrees, reflected in cultural values . Informal norms- are learned by observation, imitation, general socialization and di
23. What are Mores- norms that embody the moral views and principals of a group The strongest mores are legally protected with law or other formal norms like Plagerism is a mores
24. What are Folkways- are norms without any moral underpinnings Folkways are direct appropriate behaviors in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture like type of salute, dress code,
25. What are Symbols and Language: Symbols- gestures signs objects signals and words help people understand the world ex.traffic signs, police badge, uniform, Language is believed that reality is culturally determined, and that any interpretation of reality is based on a society’s language
26. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is based on the idea that people experience their world through their language? Yes,, and that they therefore understand their world through the culture embedded in their language.The hypothesis, which has also been called linguistic relativity, states that language shapes thought
27. WHAT IS A popular culture? IT refers to the pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exist in mainstream society.Popular culture events might include a parade, a baseball game, or a rock concert. Also spread by TV and Radio. Movies.
28. WHAT IS A subculture? is just as it sounds—a smaller cultural group within a larger culture; people of a subculture are part of the larger culture, but also share a specific identity within a smaller group.
29. What is High culture High culture- describes the pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exist in the highest class segment of a society Often high culture is associated with intellectualism, aesthetic taste, political power and prestige, wealth while Popular cultu
30. What is a subculture? a small cultural group within a larger culture; people of a subculture are part of the larger Ec. A, biker gang ectl like the post WW2 Teddy boys, beatniks, mods, hippies, skinheads, punk
31. What is a Countercultures? The are different than subcultures its a type of subculture that reject some of the larger cultures norms and values Might actively defy larger society by developing their own set of rules and norms Cults are considered a counterculture Informal, transien
32. Cultural Change defined? As the hipster example illustrates, culture is always evolving. s or smartphones) opens up new ways of living and when new ideas enter a culture (say, as a result of travel or globalization),Nonconformity
33. WHAT IS innovation- Refers to an object or concepts initial appearance in society. either discover it or invent it.?
34. Innovation opened markets and greater exchange between cultures take place as Globalizaiton. Define it?- Globalization- This formed a global exonomt to replace nationally based economies ,to lower labor cost countries.
35. What is Diffusion- The spread of material or nonmaterial culture,Do to the internet and tv material culturalism can be transended to other countries by it giving eyes to those countries , causes hybridity, hybrid cultures- refer to new forms of cultures that arise from cros
36. Name 3 Theoretical perspectives in sociology: 1) Functionalists, 2) Symbolic interactionism, 3) Critical Sociologists.
37. Define the Functionalists perspective? It is a view society as a system in which all parts work together to create a society as a whole, Cultural values guide people in making choices, Society need culture to exist
38. What is functionalist latent pattern maintenance? It meaning that the cultural practices that reproduce and circulate symbolic meanings and codes serve the function of maintaining social patterns of behaviour and facilitating orderly pattern change. Culture functions to ensure that the “meaning of life”
39. What is Symbolic interactionism perspective? Theory most concerned with face-to-face interactions between members of society, they see culture as being created and maintained by the ways people interact and how individuals interpret each others actions. These conceptualize human interactions as a co
40. What is Critical sociologists’perspective? They view social structure as inherently unequal, based on power differentials related to issues like gender race. Culture is seen as reinforcing and perpetuating those inequalities and differences in powe. Critical sociologists examine how inequalities a
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