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| the social science that studies human society and social behaivor |
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| the disciplines that study human social behaicor or institutions and functions of human society in a scientific manner |
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| how people relate to one another and influence each other's behaivor |
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| observable facts or events involving human society |
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| helps you to look beyond commonly helf beliefs to the hidden meanings behind human actions |
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| the ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life |
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| the comparatice study of past and present cultures |
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| the social science the deals with the behaivor and thinking of organisms |
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| the study of how the social enviroment affects an individual's behaivor and personality |
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| the study of the choices people make in an effort to sastify their needs and wants |
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| the examination of the organization and operation of governments |
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| survival of the fittest (originally coined by Herbet Spencer) |
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| the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenece of its social system |
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| an attempt to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions |
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| a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society |
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| an explanation fo the relationships among particular phenomena |
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| a general set of assumptions about the nature of things |
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| functionalist perspective |
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| a perspective in which people view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system |
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| the negative consequence an element has to the stability of the social system |
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| the intended and recognized consequence of some element of society |
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| the unitended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society |
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| a focus on the foces in society that promote competition and change |
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| interactionist perspective |
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| a focus on how individulas interact with one another in society |
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| anything that represents something else |
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| how people use symbols when interacting |
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| all the shared products of human groups |
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| the physical objects that people create and use |
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| a group of interdependent people who have organized to share a common culture and feeling of unity |
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| physical objects and the rules for using them |
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| the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standarized system |
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| shared beliefs about what is good/bad, right/wrong, desirable/undesirable |
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| shared rules of conduct that tel people how to act in specific situations |
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| norms that don't have great moral significance |
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| norms that have great moral significance |
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| written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government |
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| individual tools, acts, or beliefs that are related to a particlar situation or need |
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| a cluster of interrelated traits |
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| the comvination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole |
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| farmers who live in small villages along the border between Brazil and Venzuala |
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| a way of life based on cooperation |
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| conducted a study between Yanomamo and San |
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| features common to all cultures because all humans have the same basic needs |
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| the tendency to biew on's own culture and group as superior |
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| the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than applying the standards of another culture |
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| a group in society that shares values, norms, and behaivors that are not shared by the entire population |
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| a group that rejects the major values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of culture patterns |
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| anthropologist who examined 100's of different cultures to figure out what general traits are common to all cultures |
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| anthropologist who did a now classic study of cultural variation. studied whether differences in basic temperament result mainly from inherited charateristics or cultural influences |
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| society based on complete cooperation |
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| society based on aggression and competition |
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| studied India's prohibition of killing cows; viewed it from their perspective |
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| developed the idea of subcultures |
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| a commitment to the full developement of one's perosnality, talents, and potential |
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| extreme self centeredness |
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| sociologist who identified 15 values that are central to the American way of life |
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| sociologist who added to Williams' studying, including education, religion, and romantic love |
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| social historian who believed strong emphasis on personal fulfillment is a personality disorder |
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| Sociologist who felt that focus on ones self weakened hard work and moderation and threatened the stability of the capitalist system |
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| rewards a particular type of behaivor |
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| punishment or the threat of it, used to enforce conformity |
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| a reward or punishment given by a formal organization or regulatory agency |
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| a spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or group |
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| the process by which a norm becomes a part of a person's personality, thus conditioning them to conform to society's expectations |
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| rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity |
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| the enforcing of norms through either internal or external means |
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| a system of beliefs ro ideas that justifies the social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a group or society |
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| a long term consious effort to promote or prevent social change |
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| the knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate their enviroment |
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| the process of spreading culture traits form one society to another |
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| the process of adapting borrowed cultural traits |
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| the situation in which some aspects of a culture change less rapidly than other other aspects of the same culture |
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