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WCJC Sociology final
Final review for dr. sherrods class
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/13/2012

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Nature Vs. Nurture
Definition
Discussion of the respective roles of genetics & socialization in determining individual behavior & traits.
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Socialization
Definition
Learning values, beliefs & norms of our social group
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Self
Definition
Individuals personal identity
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Psychosexual stages of development
Definition

By Segmond Freud.

Stages 1-3 @ ages 1-5

Stage 4 @ age 12

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Looking Glass Self
Definition

Charles Cooley.

Notion that the self develops thru our perception of others evaluating us

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Prepatory stage
Definition

1st stage of DOS.

Chldrn imitate others

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Playstage
Definition

2nd stage of DOS.

Chldrn play role of significant other.

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Game Stage
Definition

3rd stage of DOS.

Chldrn play games & take on the perspective of the generalized other.

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Generalized other
Definition
Perspective of others
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Development of self
Definition
By George Herbert Mead
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Dual Nature of the Self
Definition
We experience the self as both subject & object
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Thomas Theorem
Definition
The way individuals define situations
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Definition of the situation
Definition
Agreement w/ others about what is going on
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Expressions of behavior
Definition
Small actions that project or definition of a situation
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Expressions given off
Definition
Observable expressions
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Impression Management
Definition
Effort to control the impression we make on others
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Dramaturgy
Definition

By Erving Goffman.

Social life is analyzed by its similarities to the theatrical performance

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Front
Definition
The setting for dramaturgy
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Region
Definition
The stage for dramaturgy
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Social Construction
Definition
Process which a concept/practice is created & maintaned 
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Cooling the markout
Definition
Behaviors that help others avoid emberassment
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Autoethnography
Definition
Ethnography description that focuses on the feelings/reactions of the ethnographer
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Agents of Socialization
Definition
Social groups, institutions & individuals that provide socialization to occur
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Hidden Corriculum
Definition
Values/Behaviors students learn indirectly over time
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Resocialization
Definition
Replacing previously learned norms w/ new ones
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Total Institution
Definition
Individuals are cut off from society to reinvent themselves
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Status
Definition
Position in a social hierarchy
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Ascribed Status
Definition
Inborn Status
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Embodied Status
Definition
Made by physical Characteristics
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Achieved status 
Definition
earned thru individual effort
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Master Status
Definition
Always Relevant
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Stereotyping
Definition
Judging Others
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Underemployed
Definition
A person who wrks for less than their earning potential
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Privitization
Definition
Private corporation that owns a prison facility. putting responsibility to private individual(s)
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Social Registry
Definition
Private books that consisted of higher class society
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Society
Definition
A group of people who live in a define territory, share a common culture & see themselves as a unified people
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What makes a society
Definition

Grp of people

Define Territory

Common Culture

Unified

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7 Areas of study interrelated w/ Sociology
Definition

Psychology

geography

Communication

Anthropology

History

Political Science

Economics

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5 Major Social Institutions
Definition

Family

Economy

Govt.

Religion

Education

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Sociological Imagination
Definition

C. Wright Mills

A qulity of the mind that allows us to understand the relationship btwn our particular situation in life & what is happening on a social level

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Culture Shock
Definition
Sense of descrimination an individual experiences as result of being exposed to a culture radically different from its own
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Beginners Mind
Definition
Approaching the world w/out preconceptions in order to see things in a new way
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The Everyday Actor
Definition
One who has the practical knowledge needed to get through daily life, but not necessarily the scientific knowledge of how things work
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Global Perspective
Definition

Flow of people

Flow of computer & communications technology

Flow of goods & services

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Digital Divide
Definition
People who are technologically literate vs. people who are technologically iliterate.
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Social Integration
Definition
Degree which an individual is bonded w/ various social institutions. 
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Over Identification
Definition

Bonds are unreasonably strong

Ex. Cults

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Inadequate Identification
Definition
Insufficient Bonding
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Social Solidarity
Definition
Degree of integration of unity w/ in a particular society; extent to which individuals feel connected to other memebers of their group
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Communist Manifesto
Definition

(R.O.A)

Recognize common enemy

Organize

Action

Lead you to a state of class consciousness

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Socialism
Definition
Political system based on state ownership or control of princial elements of the economy in order to reduce levels of social inequality
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Socialist
Definition
People are assigned tasks based upon skills but are paid based on their needs.
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False Consciousness
Definition
Denial of the truth on the part of the oppressed when they fail to recognize the interests of the ruling class in their ideology
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Max Weber
Definition

German.

Believed capitalism had its roots in religion "calvinist".

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The ideal type
Definition
Research theory weber created that provides that all those characteristics that are present in each and every subject that participate in a research creates the ideal type.
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Jane Adams

 

Definition

1860-1935

Pioneer in sociology

Established & ran CC Hull House.

Cfounder for NAACP& ACCLU

1st american woman to recieve nobel peace price

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CC Hull House
Definition
A place of refuge for immigrants of that time
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W.E.B Dubois
Definition

William Edward Hurghardt Dubois

1st African American to recieve a dr. degree from Harvard & undergrad @ Fisk in Nashville, Tennessee.

German Influence Max Weber

 

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Rosewood F
Definition
Reparations for the families that had members used as test subjects
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Booker T Washington
Definition

Against Dubois

SAid come to my school in Alabama Tuskogee Institution 

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C. Wright Mills
Definition

Power Elite

We have 2 different types of democratic - Absolute & representative.

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Power Elite
Definition

Business

Military

Government

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Functionalist Perspective (Macro)
Definition

Society is made of certain component parts. All have certain functions they are designed & expected to carry out. When 1 or more fail then social issues arise.

Family

Govt

Religion

Education

Economics

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Social COnflict Perspective
Definition
Differing groups who meet & compete for a limited resource
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Symbolic Interaction (Micro)
Definition
THroughout life an individual will define or redefine certain other individuals; groups or situations based on their interactions w/ others
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Feminist Theory
Definition
A theoretical approach that works @ gender inequalities in society & the way that gender structures the social world.
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Queer Theory
Definition

A paradigm that proposes that categories of sexual identity are social constructs & that no sexual category is fundementally either deviant or normal. 

Brought on by society

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Post Modernism
Definition
A Paradigm that suggests that social reality is diverse, pluralistic & constantly in Flux
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