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Undergraduate 1
01/16/2009

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cultural lag
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when sometimes cultures adjust slowly to changing cultural conditions.
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values
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are the abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles.
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culture
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is the complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society.
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beliefs
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are shared ideas held collectively by people within a given culture about what is true.
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social sanction
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are mechanisms of social control that enforce norms.
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folkways
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are the general standards of behavior adhered to by a group.
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mores
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are strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.
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ethnomethodology
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is a theoratical approach in sociology based on the  idea that you can discover the normal social order through disrupting it.
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norms
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are the specific cultural expectations for how to behave in a given situation.
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hypothesis
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is a prediction.
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material culture
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consists of the objects created in a given society,buildings, art, tools,etc.
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non-material culture
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includes the norms, laws, customs, ideas, and beliefs of a group of people.
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laungage
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is a set of symbols and rules that, put together in a meaningful way provide a complex communication system.
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dominant culture
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is the culture of the most powerful group in a society.
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counter-cultures
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are subcultures created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture.
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ehtnocentrism
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is the habit of only seeing things from the point of view of ones own group.
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sociology
Definition
the organized and systematic study of human society.
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debunking
Definition
looking beyond the facades of everyday life.
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sociological imagination
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as the ability to see the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as groups of individuals.
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early social thinkers
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Harriet Martineau, Karl Marx, Max Weber (vay-ber), alexis de tocqueville, emile durkheim, jane addams, w.e.b du bois.
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the three sociologial perspectives
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1.functionalism

2.conflict theory

3.symbolic interaction.

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functionalism
Definition
interprets each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole.
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conflict theory
Definition
emphazizes the role of cohersion and power.
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symbolic interaction
Definition
immediate social interaction to be the place where society exists.
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stages of the research process
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-general theory

-research question

-research design

-data collection

-data analysis

-conclusions

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dependent variable
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is one on which there is a presumed effect.
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independent variable
Definition
one that the researcher wants to test as the presumed cause of something else.
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