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Sociology Final
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
05/03/2011

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excision
Definition
removal of the female clitoris
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infibulation
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removal of the labia and clitoris
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DINKS
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Double Income No Kids
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nuclear family
Definition
mom, dad, all kids no one else lives within
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extended family
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mom, dad, kids, grandparents
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blended family
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children from both sides: mom and dad
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serial monogamy
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repeated marriage with still only 1 wife
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bigamy
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2 wives
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polygamy
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more than one spouse
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polyandry
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multiple husbands
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polygyny
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multiple wives
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bilateral
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track ancestors through the mother and father
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egalitarian
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neither matriarchial or patriarchial shared authority
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endogamy
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marry people within your group
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exogamy
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marry people outside of your group
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homogamy
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marry someone with traits that are like yourself
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informal education
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education you receive at home: manners
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informal education
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education you receive at home: manners
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formal education
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planned institution, school, homeschool
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cultural capital
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values, beliefs, attitudes
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tracking
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putting people in specific groups based on ability. ex: AP, Pre-AP
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hidden curriculum
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ex: teaching children the pledge, drinking only milk at school, standing in line. basically obeying all rules
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gender biased
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ex: males get more credit towards athletics than women
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digital divide
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certain schools that have computers compared to those schools that don't have computers
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ethnicity hidden curriculum
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changing people's names if their from china.
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social change
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alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture, or social institutions over time.
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collective behavior
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voluntary, often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and typically violates dominant group norms and values
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organizational behavior
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ex: labor unions, enviromental organizations
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organizational behavior
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ex: labor unions, enviromental organizations
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Steven Buechler
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coined the term "collective behavior"
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collectivity
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# of people who act together and may mutually transcend, bypass established institutional patterns and structures.
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3 factors of collective behavior
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1. Structural factors include changes of people responding in a particular way, timing, break down in social control mechanisms
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Ralph Turner, and Lewis Killian
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"Strength in #'s"
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crowd
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large number of people who are in the same vicinity
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Mass
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# of people who share an interest in a specific idea or issue but are not in eachother's vicinity. ex:blogging
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John Lofland
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Dominant Emotion- publically expressed feeling perceived by observers most prominent in collective behavior.
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aggregates
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same place, same time, 0 in common
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Herbert Blumer
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Crowds have 4 categories: Casual- large Conventional- scheduled event Expressive- expression of emotion, Acting- intense focus may erupt
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riot
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violent crowd behavior fueled by deep seated emotion but not a one specific target.
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Clark McPhail and Ron Wohlstein
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Added protest crowds to 4 types of crowds identified by Blumer
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civil disobedience
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nonviolent action that seeks to change a policy or law by refusing to comply
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Le Bon
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contagion theory- crowd psychology. social- psychological aspects of collective behavior more likely to engage antisocial behavior because feel anonymous and invulnerable.
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Robert Park
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1st US sociologist to investigate crowd behavior social unrest and circular reaction.
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convergence theory
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shared emotions, goals, beliefs, that many bring to crowd behavior
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Emergent norm theory
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important of social norms in shaping crowd behavior
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Mass Behavior
Definition
collective behavior that takes place when people who are often geographically seperated respond to the same event in the same way.
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Cooley
Definition
gossip spreads amongst small groups who personally knew people of the rumor
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