JPC SCC Vocabulary Word Scramble
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Functionalist | a society is viewed as a stable, orderly system |
Conflict | groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources |
Sybolic interactionists | focuses on the specific interaction among people |
Cause and Effect | a relationship in which change in one variable causes a change in another |
Independent Variable | the variable that causes the change |
Dependent Variable | the variable that changes |
Spurious Correlation | an apparent, although false, relationship between two (or more) variables caused by some other variable- a trivial or meaningless correlation |
Culture | the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a people's way of life |
Material Culture | the physical creations that members of a society make, use, and share |
Symbols/Gestures | anything that meaningful represents someting else |
Language | a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another |
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | language shapes the view of reality of its speakers |
Values | ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirablre in a particular culture |
Norms | established rules of behavior |
Mores | norms that may NOT by violated without serious consequences |
Folkways | norms that may be violated without serious consequences |
Laws | written norms |
Ethnocentrism | the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
Cultural Relativism | the practice of evaluating a culture by it's own standards |
Society | people who interact in a defined territory and share a common culture |
Resocialization | the process by which people abandon their old sleves and develop new ones |
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