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Norms (Rules) - Provide security, someone's in charge.
Studied norms and suicide rates.
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Catholics (strict) -> lowest suicide rate
Protestants (most lenient) -> highest suicide rate
Jews (in the middle) -> middle suicide rate
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Social Darwinism
"survival of the fittest" - his expression, not Darwin's!
If poor die out, good! |
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Length of lines test
conformity rises in groups!
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Even if C is in the middle, if everyone else says A is, then one will most likely say A, to try and fit in. |
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Geography influences culture.
Economics influences culture.
Harder living conditions = more cooperation
Easier living conditions = less cooperation |
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| A culture which runs opposite against another culture, with opposing views. |
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"1954: Robber's Cave"
Oklahoma: Eagles vs. Rattlers. "We're us, they're them!"
Need to reach subordinate goal to cooperate. |
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| the way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on new information. |
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| The inequalities of a specific social group. |
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| addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. |
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| social behavior is based on evolution. |
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| a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labor and private property in the means of production and real estate. |
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| an economic system in which the means of production are publicly or commonly owned and controlled co-operatively, or a political philosophy advocating such a system. |
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| an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit. |
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Gemeinschaft/Geselleschaft.
Gemeinschaft: Individuals are less important.
Geselleschaft: Individuals are more important. |
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| the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own |
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| the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. |
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| the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to what individuals perceive is normal of their society or social group |
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| a sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms. |
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| through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior |
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| social structures within society may pressure citizens to commit a crime. |
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| deviance is not inherent to an act, but instead focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms |
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| exploiting the process of socialization and social learning builds self-control and reduces the inclination to indulge in behavior recognized as antisocial. |
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| the norm setting and signaling effects of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. |
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| an infraction of criminal law without any identifiable evidence of an individual that has suffered damage in the infraction |
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