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Sociology Ch.2 vocab
exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | differences in groups' shared ideas, as well as the objects, practices, and bodies that reflect those ideas |
| Socialization | the lifelong learning process by which we become members of our cultures |
| Culturally competent | able to understand and navigate our cultures with ease |
| Social construct | an influential and shared interpretation of reality that will vary across time and space |
| Social construction | the process by which we layer objects with ideas, fold concepts into one another, and build connections between them |
| Symbolic structure | a constellation of social constructs connected and opposed to one another in overlapping networks of meaning |
| Beliefs | ideas about what is true and false |
| Values | notions as to what's right and wrong |
| Norms | shared expectations for behavior |
| Interpersonal socialization | active efforts by others to help us become culturally competent members of our cultures |
| Subcultures | subgroups within societies that have distinct cultural ideas, objects, practices, and bodies |
| Self-socialization | active efforts we make to ensure we're culturally competent members of our cultures |
| Social ties | the connections between us and other people |
| Social networks | webs of ties that link us to each other and, through other people's ties, to people to whom we're not directly linked |
| Social media | social networks mediated by the internet |
| Homophily | our tendency to connect with others who are similar to us |
| Social network analysis | a research method that involves the mapping of social ties and exchanges between them |
| Mass media | mediated communication intended to reach not just one or a handful of people but many |
| Media socialization | the process of learning how to be culturally competent through our exposure to media |
| Embodied | physically present and detectable in the body itself |
| Biosocial research methods | tools of sociological inquiry that investigate relationships between sociological variables and biological ones |
| Culture-as-value thesis | the idea that we're socialized into culturally specific moralities that guide our feelings about right and wrong |
| Culture-as-rationale thesis | the idea that we're socialized to know a set of culturally specific arguments with which we can justify why we feel something is right or wrong |
| Ethnocentrism | the practice of assuming that one's own culture is superior to the cultures of others |
| Culture relativism | the practice of noting the differences between cultures without passing judgment |
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