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Sociology S100 INTRO
IU East Final Timmerman
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Sociology
Not Applicable
05/03/2005

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Term
Altruistic Suicide
Definition
Group oriented suicide (Heavens Gate)

The sacrificing of ones life for the good of the group.
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McDonalidazation
Definition
Wanting things to be uniform.

George Riter's term for the process by which the principles of fast food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectores of American Society.
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Folkways
Definition
Relatively unimportant rules that if violated are not severly punished.
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Max Weber
Definition
The Book "Protestant and the ethic spirit of capitalism."

Weber countered Marx's emphasis on material economic concerns by showing how ideaolgy shapes the economy.

Famous for his core concepts "power, ideology, charisma, bureaucracy, and social change"
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Dependent Variable
Definition
A variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable (the independent variable).
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Social Structure
Definition
The patterned and recurrent relationships among people and parts in a social organization.
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Mores
Definition
Important norms, the violation of whcih results in severe punishment.
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Primary Groups
Definition
Small groups characterized by intimate face-to-face interaction.
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Secondary Groups
Definition
Large, impersonal, and formally organized groups.
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Order Model
Definition
The conception of society as a social system characterized by cohesion, consensus, cooperation, reciprocity, stability, and persistence.
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Conflict Model
Definition
A view of society that posits conflict as a normal feature of social life, influencing the distribution of power and the direction and magnitude of social change.
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Myth of Peacful Progress
Definition
The incorrect belief that throughout U.S. history, disadvantaged groups have gained their share of power, prosperity, and respectability without violence.
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Socialization
Definition
The process of learning the culture.
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
The universal tendency to deprecate the ways of people from other societies as wrong, old-fashioned, or immoral and to think of the ways of one's own group as superior (as the only right way).
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Culture
Definition
The knowledge that the members of a social organization share.
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Norms
Definition
Cultural rules that specify approprate and inappropriate behavior (in other words, the shared expectations for behavior).
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Values
Definition
The shared criteria used in evaluating objects, ideas, acts, feelings, or events as to their relative desirability, merit, or correctness.
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Subculture
Definition
A relatively cohesive cultural system that varies in form and substance from the dominant culture.
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Counterculture
Definition
A subculture that fundamentally opposes the dominant culture.
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Significant Others
Definition
Mead's term referring to people who are most important in determining a child's behavior.
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Ideological Social Control
Definition
The efforts by social organizations to control members by controlling their minds. Societies accomplish this, typically, through the socialization process.
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Deviance
Definition
Behavior that violates the expectations of society.
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Labeling Theory
Definition
The explanation of deviant behavior that stresses the importance of the society in defining what is illegal and in assigning deviant status to particular individuals, which in turn dominates their identities and behaviors.
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Sociological Theory
Definition
A set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of social and societal events.
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Primary Deviance
Definition
The original illegal act preceding the successful application of the deviant label.
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Secondary Deviance
Definition
Deviant behavior that is a consequence of the successful application of the deviant label.
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Culture of Poverty
Definition
The view that the poor are qualitatively different in values and lifestyles from the rest of society and that these cultural differences explain continued poverty.
Term
Social Stratisfaction
Definition
Occurs when people are ranked in a hierarchy that differentiates them as superior or inferior.
Term
Ethnicity
Definition
Shared cultural heritage.
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Race
Definition
A group socially defined on the basis of a presumed common genetic heritage resulting in distinguishing physical characteristics.
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Patriarchy
Definition
A form of social organization in which males dominate females.
Term
False Consciousness
Definition
In Marxian theory, the idea that the oppressed may hold beliefs damaging to their interests.
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Class Consciousness
Definition
Barriers that restrict social interaction to the members of a particular social class.
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Social Mobility
Definition
Movement by an individual from one social class or status group to another.
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Glass Ceiling
Definition
Invisible barriers that limit women's mobility in organizations.
Term
Determinism
Definition
The belief that human behavior is controlled by some force, whether genetic, economic, or political. Taken to the extreme, deterministic theories leave no room for human beings to adapt to and change social structures to meet their needs.
Term
Marx - What kind of theorist?
Definition
Conflict

Those in power keep the powerless down.

Competition, conflict, domination, subordination
Term
Emile Durkheim - What kind of theorist?
Definition
Order Model (Functionalism)

Cohesion, Consensus, Cooperation, reciprocity, stability
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Norms
Definition
Cultural rules that are specify appropriate and inappropriate behavior

(The shared expectations for behavior)
Term
Sunrise
Definition
Increase in productivity
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Sunset
Definition
Decrease in productivity
Term
Durkheims Study on suicide. (WHO)
Definition
Single people, Childless, City dwellers, Protestants.
Term
George Ritzer

Coined what phrase?
Definition
McDonaldization
Term
Spencer
Definition
Social Darwinism / Survival of the fittest.
Term
Wealth Fair
Definition
Receipt by the rich of financial aid or services from the government.
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