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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
08/01/2007

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Symbolic interactionism
Definition
A theoretical perspective that focuses on how words obtain their meaning is ___________.
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Conflict theory
Definition
A theoretical perspective that focuses on how humans have a competition for scarce societal resources is __________
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Functionalism
Definition
A theoretical perspective that focuses on how various parts of a society and how they contribute to its equiligbrium is __________.
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Theory
Definition
A collection of general satements of how things fit together in the world and how they work which is testable and from which one may make prediction is a _________.
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Hypothesis
Definition
A statement about how variables are expected to relate to one another is a ________________.
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reliability
Definition
The extent to which research produces consistent or dependable results in its _______.
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validity
Definition
the extent to which research items measures up to what it is intended to
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socialization
Definition
in C. Wright Mills' interface between history and biography, the influence of history upon biography were, in class, identified as _____
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Consciousness
Definition
In C. Wright Mills' interface between history and biography, the influences of biography on history is identified as _________.
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Chemistry
Definition
academic discipline whose elemental unit is the element
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Biology
Definition
cells are the academic disciplines
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thoughts
Definition
the elemental unit is cognitive brangh of psychology
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positivism
Definition
"Faith" that science will accumulate knowledge and eventually produce cohesive and conprehensive understanding, including of human social behavior
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other groups
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mores
Definition
norms that are enforeced with emotionality
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taboo
Definition
norm that is heald so strongly that it provokes disgust when it's violated
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Folkway
Definition
norm that is explained with a shrug of the shoulders
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symbol
Definition
that language creates ways of thinkking and perceiving describes the __________.
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values
Definition
the standars by which people define things as desirable or undesirable
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pluralism
Definition
that a consists of and embraces the norms of many different groups is a description of pluralism
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democracy
Definition
A U.S. value that is represented by majority rule
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the word
Definition
in the beginning was _______
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technological leapfrogging
Definition
when a society benefits more readily from a new technology because it never adopted the one previous to it
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friend
Definition
the syllabus is my _______
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looking glass self
Definition
the term coinged by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the processs by which or self develops through internalizing our perceptions of others' reactions to us
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specific
Definition
G.H. mead's model for age 3-6; Prof Dave refers to the stage of PLAY; ______ other
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generalized
Definition
G.H. mead's model for age 6+; Prof Dave refers to the stage of Game; ___________ other
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concrete operational
Definition
Piaget's stave in which a child can likely master multiplication tables is the
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preoperational stage
Definition
Piaget's stave in which a child can focus on using symbols
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formal operational stage
Definition
Piaget's stave in which a child can use abstract thought
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ego
Definition
for freud, the element of the mind that balances our drive for immediate gratification with our conscience
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Mommy, what's that?
Definition
The moment a child crossise over between sensorimotor and preoperational is when it points and asks
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post-conventional stage
Definition
Kohlberg's stage of moral development that says many people can naver achieve
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pre-conventional stage
Definition
Kohlbergs stage of moral development when the child is just concerned with avoiding punishment
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female
Definition
in gender socialization, when the hands are held palms forward and speech is held at a low level of loudness
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male
Definition
during gender socialization, when you talk with a loud voice and use a lot of physical interaction
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adolescence
Definition
the extension of standard formal education from 6th to 12th grade produced this stage of socio-personal development
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family
Definition
the first institutional agency of socialization
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conscious
Definition
we can transcend being "prisoners of socialization" to the extent wto which we are _______
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achieved status
Definition
a postion that one does not inherit or receive involuntarily
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ascribed status
Definition
a puostion that one inherits or recieves invountarily
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stereo type
Definition
Assumptions about what people are like, whether true or false
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community
Definition
Besides polity, the Big Six institutions that does not appear in the chart in the Henslin text and is still needed by humans
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organic solidarity
Definition
social cohesion produced by people's interdependence
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mechanical solidarity
Definition
social cohesion produced by people's performing similar tasks
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division of labor
Definition
the origin of societal specialization of tasks and which is usually related to gender
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consequences
Definition
Thomas theorem says "if people define situations as real, they are real in their ______"
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social class
Definition
a group of people who rank close to one anotehr in wealth, power, and prestige
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status incongruency
Definition
ranking high on some dimentions and low on others
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education
Definition
the social institution that focuses on producing the status quo, among other things
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economy
Definition
the social institution that focuses on our participation in production
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minerals and organic decaying matter
Definition
the two solid factors that contribute to the fertility of soil
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200,000 years
Definition
According tp Prof Dave, the hunting and garthering was the prominant form of human production for
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horticulture
Definition
the form of agriculture that focuses on seed plants
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mechanical loom
Definition
the machine that Trusty the Serf learned about that enabled him to get into the manufacturing business
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nobility
Definition
the name of the warrior-founded ruling group of feudalism
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30-60
Definition
A typical number of members of a hunting and gathering b
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triad
Definition
the smallest group that can have a coalition
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12
Definition
how many paths of affect does a goup of 4 have?
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territorial or military
Definition
the necessity that the land be defended once agriculture has taken root _______ imperative
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first cousins
Definition
Kaiser Wilhelm, King George V, Czar Nicholas were
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scratches his chin
Definition
When trusty gets to thinking he...
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Instrumental
Definition
the form of leadership that focusses on accomplishing specific goals
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laissez-faire
Definition
the type of leadership that can be effective when those being led are highly skilled and motivated
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Fertile Crescent, Iraq
Definition
The invention of agriculutre took place about 12,000 years ago in this place
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deviant
Definition
"it's not the act itself, but the reactions to the act that make something...."
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Degradation Ceremony
Definition
"drumming-out is an example of this
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stigma
Definition
the girl w/ no nose bore a ____
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symbolic interactionism
Definition
differential association is a component of the sociological theoretical perspective
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labeling and tracking
Definition
one danger of ____ is that it often leads to ______
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ritualist
Definition
on the means-ends schema, a person who "deos the right thing" but doesn't seem to "get anywhere " is a ____
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rebel
Definition
on the means-ends schema, a person who actively rejects socially prescribed means and works to replace what society presently values as ends is a
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Innovator
Definition
on the means-ends schema, a perso nwho achieves socially-valued ends by non-normative means
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eccentric
Definition
The conflict perspective would have us note that when a sociallly high-ranking member of society violates norms, they are thot to be an _____
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Boo-boo
Definition
folkways make a
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abominable
Definition
taboos are
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war
Definition
of the three primary historical causes of slavery, the one that accounted for the most instances of slaver was
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ideology of racism
Definition
the belief that one member of race (other than one's own are less than human
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caste system
Definition
a form of social stratification outlawed in 1947 but still widely practiced in india in which one's status is determined at birth and cannot be changed
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colonialism
Definition
when a nation takes over another nation militarily or politically for economic reasons
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2
Definition
if one is focused on power, the numbner of US social classes is
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families
Definition
"a social class is a network of ______...."
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college education
Definition
the definitive interest of the clerical class, as illustrated by Broad's Former Rule of Thumb
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1/1000
Definition
capitalist class represents this percentage or proportion of the U.S population:
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spending/saving money
Definition
when a working class member marries a clerical class member, what will they worry about?
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money
Definition
it's not just about _______
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Park Avenue
Definition
New York is where I'd rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Darling I love you but give me
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Social Register
Definition
name of the upper class directory
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working "blue collar"
Definition
the median (the point at which the half of the people are above and half below) of the American class system likes in which class?
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adjacent classes
Definition
members of social classes relate primarily with members of their own class and secondarily with these members
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endogamy
Definition
marrying within one's own class
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bourgeouisie
Definition
Marxian term, the working class is this
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anus
Definition
the limits of the functionalist view of stratification was illustrated by the story of the
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85%
Definition
Approximately ____ of Americans identify themselves as "middle class."
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salary
Definition
earnings of members of the clerical class are called....
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hourly wages
Definition
earnings of members of the working class
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xy
Definition
male genetic code
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xx
Definition
female genetic code
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agriculture
Definition
patriarchy started in what socio-historical epoch?
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sufferage, equity, deconstruction of patriarchy
Definition
waves of feminism in order
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ethnocentrism
Definition
the universal tendancy that tis the root cause of a culture's beliefs about race
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prejudice
Definition
beliefs about members of another group that makes one more likely to think less of them individually
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descrimination
Definition
unfair treatment of others based on beliefs such as [beliefs about members of another group that makes one more likely to think less of them individually]
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systema Naturae
Definition
the book published by Linnaeus that shaped European beliefs about race for over 200 years
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Binomial nomenclature/taxonomy
Definition
the system of classification of living things invented by Linaeus
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monstrosus
Definition
Sasquatch is a member of this "race"
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Ferus
Definition
Wulf Boys are part of this "race"
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Authoritarian personality
Definition
if you rank high on one of these: conformity, intolerance, insecurity, submissive to superiors , you are this
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Split-labor market
Definition
the division of workers along racial, ethnic, gender or age lines to weaken their bargaining power is this
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sub-saharan, great rift valley, africa
Definition
the Human Genome Project has been established that the larges concentration of genetic diversity in any existing human population is here.
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60,000
Definition
the out-migration from Africa of Cro Magnon (modern) people occured approximately this long ago.
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200,000
Definition
the out-migration of Africa from Homo Erectuse (including Neanderthal occured aproximately this long ago
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other possible things
Definition
patriarchy, matriarch
patrilinial, matrilinal
exogamy, endogamy
family
blended family
32 people=extended family
true ♥ myth
compatible
complementary
procreation
polygamly
polygyny
polyandry
nuclear family
extended family
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