Sociology CH 3 Word Scramble

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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.

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