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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2011

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science
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evidence based prediction
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culture
Definition
sum of behaviors/ beliefs
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culture shock
Definition
moving to totally different culture
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ehnocentrism
Definition
my beliefs are the only corret ones
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folkways
Definition
practice of local group i.e. the holler
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mores
Definition
norms that are strictly enforced, essential to core values or well-being of group
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taboo
Definition
a norm so strong that it brings extreme sanctions and even revulsion if someone violates it
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values
Definition
standars by which people define what is desirable or undesirables
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value cluster
Definition
values that together form a larger whole
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value contradiction
Definition
values taht contradic one another; to follow one means to come into conflict with the other
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norms
Definition
expectations or rules of behavior, the reflect and enforce behavior
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sanction
Definition
either expressions of approval given to people for upholding norms or expressions of disapproval for behavior
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subculture
Definition
values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture: world within a world
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ideal culture
Definition
a people's ideal values and norms
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real cultures
Definition
the norms and values that poeple actually follow
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cultural lag
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human behavior lagging behind technological innovations
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diffusion
Definition
culture starts somewhere and spreads
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zero-sum
Definition
win or lose
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looking glass self
Definition
based on society's reflection against,us we imagine how we appear to those around us we interpret other's reactions. we develop a sense of self concept
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sensiorimotor stage
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birth to 2 can't recognize anything
Piagets operational stage
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preoperational stage
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2-7, develop ability to use symbols, can't understand size or speed
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concrete operational stage
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reasoning more developed,understand number,size causation, and spped, able to take roles of others
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formal op stage
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piagets, cabale of abstract thinking young philosphers
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amoral stage
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Kohlberg, no sense of right and wrong
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preconvential stage
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learned rules, follow parents for sense of right and wrong, kohlberg
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convential
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kohlberg, following norms/values they have learned
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postconvential
Definition
most don't reach,
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gestures
Definition
can summon up emotions,vary greatly world, nonverbal communication
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Definition
language creates ways of thinking behavior
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Functionalism
Definition
society as whole composed of parts that work together
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conflict theory
Definition
composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources
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symbolic interaction
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how people use symbols to create social life
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material culture
Definition
objects that distinguish a group of people, art buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewlery
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non-material culture
Definition
group's way of thinking and doing
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total institution
Definition
a place controlled by those who run it, people cut off from the rest of society, and society mostly cut off from them
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Marx
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Class conflict, two class in scoiety, lower class will eventually rebel
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Comte
Definition
coined sociology, apply scientific methods to social word, wondered what held society together, social order
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Durkheim
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social intergration, how closely people are tied to their social group, suicide study, human behavior cannot be understood only in terms of the indvidual
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Weber
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Protestan Ethi created capitalism, economic large structures
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Simmel
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small group interactions, face to face, the stranger, members of group known by the sectets
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language
Definition
specifity of meaning, realtionship parts direcions of actionas, temporal relationships, meaning of actions
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culture as distorting lens
Definition
culture affects the way you see things
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observation
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seeing what people do on a daily basis
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particpant observation
Definition
join in with activity observed
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