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SOCL 101 Chap 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| social structures | patterns of organization that constrain human behavior |
| culture | the symbolic and learned aspects of society |
| subculture | the symbols and lifestyles of a subgroup in society |
| society | a population distinguished by shared norms, values, institutions, and culture |
| sociological imagination | the ability to understand what is happening in ones own experience and the world, and to imagine how ones experience fits into the world experience |
| values | shared ideas of what is good/ bad in society |
| norms | rules that prescribe correct behavior |
| postmodernity | contemporary developments in historical, social, and economic processes |
| status | a postion in social relations (mom/dad) that is normatively regulated |
| roles | bundles of socially defined attributes and expecations associated with social status/ positions |
| institutions | patterned sets of linked social practices that are formed by broader culture, are regularly repeated, maintained by social norms, and have significance for the social structure |
| troubles | personal problems, dealing with the self |
| issues | problems extending beyond the individual and local enviorment |
| social problem | a situation that violates social norms and values (drug abuse and racism) |
| modernity | the set of historical processes that transformed the tradional order |
| globalization | a social phenomenom characterized by the growing number of interconnections around the world |