Term
|
Definition
| marrying someone with the same social characteristics as you, such as age, social class, and education |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| marrying someone outside your social class (ie marrying "up") |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| marrying someone in your own racial, ethnic, or religious group. reinforces group solidarity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| marrying someone outside your racial, ethnic, religious group (whatever group it is with which you most identify) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Discrimination + Power = Racism |
|
|
Term
| Equation for Discrimination |
|
Definition
| Prejudice + Action = Discrimination |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| any collection of people who interact |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a group of people who possess a similiar trait but who do not interact |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| people who happen to be in the same place at the same time but do not necessarily interect |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a major theoretical perspective that views society as a living organism and that each part of the organism contributes to its survival. all parts function to maintain stability |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| tool through which society achieves objectives |
|
|
Term
| 4 Basic Components of Social Structure |
|
Definition
| statuses, roles, groups, institutions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a term for a goal that is not clear to person pursuing it (ie college's latent function could be finding a mate) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| clear, obvious function for doing something (college's manifest function is getting an education) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| these types of people are goal-oriented, concentrate on the goal at hand, and guide the group towards that goal. perform the "tasking function." |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| concentrate on maintaining harmony amongst the group members. "maitenance function" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| stresses study of small groups |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| concentrates on society as a whole |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| weak norms followed in every day life (ie, eating politely at a restaurant) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| morally significant norms. ie killing someone |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the stronget of all norms. such as incest |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| employees tend to get promoted to positions above their levels of competence |
|
|
Term
| Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy |
|
Definition
| in large business, leaders tend to promote people similiar to themselves-- power soon becomes consolidated in a few hands |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| overzealous conformity to official regulations |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| refers to minimal necessities of life; people who live in minimal poverty are barely able to maintain the basic necessities |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| poverty based on the standard level of living in a society |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| interactionalist theory; people seen as theatre performers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| any form of plural marriage |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| one husband has several wives |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| one wife has several husbands (very rare) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| many men married to many women at same time (extremely rare) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| newlyweds set up residence near wife's parents |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| newlyweds set up residence with or near husband's parents |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| newlyweds set up residence away from parents |
|
|
Term
| stem extended family type |
|
Definition
| three or more generations of the same family sharing same residence, economic resources, etc |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| two of more nuclear families sharing same household and economic resources (usually headed by brothers) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| collective consciousness that emphasizes group solidarity, characteristic of society's with minimal division of labor |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| interdepence; characteristic of modern societies with complex labor division |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| seeks immediate gradification for bodily desires |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| rational part of the personality; tries to avoid punishment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| our conscious sense of right and wrong. battles the ego. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| imperative understanding, stressed meaning, understanding, and comprehension which requires you to be near subject |
|
|
Term
| C.W. Mills (2 key concepts) |
|
Definition
| power elite, sociological imagination |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| children imitate people around them |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| pretend to be other people |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| pretend to be other people |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the chart: ritualist, conformist, innovator, retreatist/rebel |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| infants derive everything from senses |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| can't handle concepts of weight, speed, volume well |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| thinking tied to real world |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| children capable of abstract thought and deal with world in idealistic terms |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Tonnes's term to describe large, impersonal community (think "L" for "large") |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Tonnes's term for a close-knit, rural community (think "mein" which implies a personal connection) |
|
|
