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Sociology CH 3
Question | Answer |
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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. |