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Sociology CH 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sef-fulfillment | commitment to the full devloment of one's personailty, talents, and potential |
| Narcissism | extreme self-centerdness |
| Robin M. William | American Society sociologist analyzed American values. Identified a set of 15 values that central to American way of life. |
| James M. Henslin | Sociologist suggested that additional values such as education might be included |
| Christopher Lasch | social historian that wrote Culture of Narcissism went so far as to consider the emphasis on personal fulfillment a personality disorder. |
| Daniel Bell | sociologist also saw danger in the focus on the on the self. |
| Daniel Yankelovich | pychologist and survey researcher took a diffrent view. Admitted that this new vaule probably indicated that Americans believed less in hard work than did earlier generations |
| Internalization | process by which a norm becomes a part of an individual's personality, thereby conditioning the individual to conform to society's expectations |
| Sactions | rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms. |
| positive sactions | An action that rewards a particular kind of behavior |
| negative sactions | a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity |
| formal sactions | a reward or punishment given by a formal organization or regulatory agency, such as school suspension, termination from a job. |
| informal sactions | a supontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or a group. |
| social control | enforcing of norms through either internlization or sactions |
| Ideology | system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religious, political, or economic intrest held by social group or by society |
| social movement | long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change |
| technology | knowledge and tools people use foe practical purpose |
| diffusion | spread of culture traits ideass, acts, beliefs, and material objects from one society to another |
| reformulation | the process of adapting borrowed cultural traits. |
| ciltural lag | situation in which somw aspects of culture change less rapidly, or lag behind, other aspects of the same culture. |