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Details Title: sociology test one Description: first test Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 02/21/2007 20:46:41	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Sociology Definition systematic study of human society and interaction Term sociological imagaination Definition C Wright Miller. ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society Term anthropology Definition understand human existance over geographic space and evolutionary time Term anomie Definition Emile Durkheim. social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and feeling of purpose in society Term double conscienceness Definition the identity conflict of being both black and american Term manifest functions Definition functions that are intended and/or overtly recognized by the particpants in a social unity Term latent functions Definition unintended functions you don't realize Term ethnography Definition study of life and activities of a group by researchers that live with them Term nonmaterial culture Definition examples: attitudes beliefs and values Term flokways Definition informal ways or everyday custom that may beviolated without serious consequences Term soicalization Definition lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and skills needed for society Term id Definition sigmeund freud. componant of personality that includes all of the persons basic biological drives Term ego Definition reality oriented component of personality that imposes restricted on the pleasure seaking drives of the id Term superego Definition conscience consisting of the moral and ethical aspects of personality Term anticipatory socialization Definition process by which knowledge and skills are learned for future roles Term resocialization Definition learning new and different set of attitudes values and behaviors from people in thier background and exoerience Term ascribed status Definition status you are born into or you get involuntarily later in life Term social institution Definition organized beliefs and roles that establishes how a society will attempt to meet its basic social needs Term mechanical solidarity Definition preindustrial areas Term organic solidarity Definition industrial society Term gemeinschaft Definition relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship Term gesellschaft Definition urban society social bonds based on impersonal and specialized relationships no long term commitment Term aggregate Definition people in the same place at the same time. not mch else in common Term category Definition people who share similar things like race evel age etc Term authoritarian leader Definition people who make all the major group decisions and asign tasks to members Term bureaucracy Definition hierachy of authority, a clear division of labor Term deviance Definition behavior belief or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs Term primary deviance Definition the initial ct of rule-breaking Term secondary deviance Definition someone accepts that they are a trouble maker Term occupational crimes Definition illegal activites commited by people who are considered white collar Term retribution Definition punishment that a person receives for infringing on the rights of others.