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Chapter 3
Keywords And People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Self-fulfillment | values that include leisure, physical fitness, and youthfulness. |
| Narcissism | extreme self-centeredness. |
| Internalization | process by which the norm becomes a part of an individuals personality, thus conditioning that individual to conform to societys expectations. |
| Sanctions | rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms. |
| Positive Sanction | an action that rewards a particular kind of behavior. |
| Negative Sanction | a punishment or the threat of a punishment used to enforce conformity. |
| Formal Saction | a reward or punishment given by a formal organization or regulatory agency, such as a school, business, or government. |
| Informal Sanction | a spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by and individual or a group. |
| Social Control | the enforcing of norms through either internal or external. |
| Ideology | a system of beliefs or ideas that justifies the social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a group or by society. |
| Social Movement | a long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change. |
| Technology | the knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate the government. |
| Diffusion | process of spreading culture traits from one society to another. |
| Reformulation | process of adapting borrowed cultural traits. |
| Cultural Lag | traits that change rapidly, and the transformation of others may take considerable time. |
| Robin M. Williams | analyzed american values. |
| James M. Henslin | pointed out that religious values are important in American culture. |
| Christopher Lasch | scoial historian. |
| Daniel Bell | sociologist that saw dangers in the focus on the self-centeredness |
| Daniel Yankelovich | psychologist and survey researcher that saw different views that daniel bell. |