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20 Cards in this Set
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What is socialization?
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the process of inheriting norms, customs and ideologies
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What is internalization?
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acceptance of a set of norms established by people or groups which are influential to the individual.
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What are reference groups?
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they are groups which an individual wants to belong in.
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What is material technology?
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It is knowledge of how to make and use things. The knowledge is the culture not the object made.
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What is social technology?
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It is the knowledge about how to establish, maintain, and operate the technical aspects of social organization.
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What is Ethnomethodology?
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It is a sub-discipline in sociology that is the scientific study of the commonplace activities of daily life.
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What are folkways?
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They are less important norms that one is not severely punished for if violated. (barefoot and suit)
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What are mores?
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They are norms that one is severely punished for if violated. (Morality)
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What is an achieved status?
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It is a person's occupation.
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What is an ascribed status?
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A trait that an individual cannot control such as race and age.
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What is the social construction of reality?
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the process in which people learn how to define reality from other people in interaction and by learning the culture.
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What is linguistic relativity?
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It is the idea that language shapes thought.
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What is the position of ontology?
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It accepts the reality of things because their nature cannot be denied. It is the theory of "being."
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What is epistemology?
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It is the theory of "knowledge." All reality is socially constructed.
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What is cultural relativity?
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Customs of a society should be evaluated by their own society.
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What is ethnocentrism?
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The tendency for the members of each society to assume the rightness of their own customs and practices.
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What is cultural diffusion?
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The spread of one society's cultural characteristics to another.
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What is global culture?
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A common homogeneous culture.
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What is the Protestant ethic?
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It is the religious belief emphasizing hard work and continual striving to prove that one is saved.
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What is a counterculture?
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Is a culturally homogeneous group that has developed values and norms that differ from the larger society because the group opposes the larger society.
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