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who coined the phrase the sociological imagination
C wright mills
Define:
To describe peoples ability to see the impact of the social forces on their private lives
Sociological imagination
Sociological imagination
To describe peoples ability to see the impact of the social forces on their private lives
What is Durkheims study of suicide?
that there are always outside reasons for sucides Durkheim broke suicides up into 3 catigories.
What is the type of suicide that takes place when peoples lives are suddenly disrupted by a major event
anomic
what is the type of suicide that takes place when the nature of social life among people in certin groups
Egoistic
what is the type of suicide that takes place when ones alignment with a group overshadows them as a person, this is when one is over involved instead of under.
Altruistic
what are examples of social institutions
Family Religion Government Education
Law
what is the prospective that explains society and social structure through an examination of the micro level, personal, day to day. More concerned about small groups of people and their behaviors
Symbolic Interaction
what is symbolic interaction
society and social structure through an examination of the micro level, personal, day to day. More concerned about small groups of people and their behaviors
what is the systematic study of human societies
SOC
what does soc explain
it explains what goes on among people as individuals, group and societies and how social forces affect the way that people interact with one another
what explains what goes on among people as individuals, group and societies and how social forces affect the way that people interact with one another
soc
what forces us to look outside ourselves to the external forces that shape our lives
soc
soc makes us do what?
look outside ourselves to the external forces that shape our lives
what is a status
position
what is a role
what you do in your status or position and or a set of behavioral expectations associated with a particular position
what is a status or position taken on at birth
Ascribe status
what is a status or position taken on voluntary or earned
Achieved Status
what is a set of people who interact semi regularly and are continous of common thread.
group
what is a organization?
has a higherchy like a collage
What is an institution? and what are examples
like a family or the law or somthing
What is a population of people who share land
Society
What is the Conflict prospective?
all about have and have nots
what point of view is this? everything has a place if not it will eventually die off.
Structural Functionalist
what is a prospective which places strong emphasis on the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction
Symbolic Interactionist
what allows the world to seem smaller and allow more opportunities
Globalization
Milligrams experiment
getting shocked
what Variable is constant
independent
waht variable is varied
dependent
what is the difference between Qualitative vs.

quantitative
(non-numbers)

(numbers)
what is reasearch without direct contact
Unobtrusive
what is Ethnocentrism
judging others
highly codified, formal, systematized norm a (taboo
Mores
informal norm that is mildly punished when violated
Folkways
standard of judgement by which people decide on goals and outcomes
Values
what is the term used when refering to social punishment
Sanctions
what type of cluture is defined by artifacts of a society which represent adaptations to the social and physical environment
Material culture
what type of cluture is defined by knowlage beliefs customs values morals and symbols that are shared by members of society and makes it different
Non material cluture
what is a click within a cluture
sub cluture
what is the term given to a group that has the same language values beliefs rules behaviors that characterize a society
Culture
what is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself
Self fulfilling prophesy
what is An analysis technique where written material is broken down into meaningful units using carefully designed rules
Content Analysis
what is is an area of sociology concerned with the visual dimensions of social life
Visual Sociology
what is the aspect of history, and of semiotics, that is the study of how knowledge of the past, recent or distant
Historical Analysis
what is Identity
is more of the internalized motivation for carrying out the role
the following describes what prospective?

social environment strongly influences our behavior
sociological perspective
what prospective addresses the social structure in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely, norms, customs, traditions, and institutions.
Structural functionalism
Course evaluations are a
survay
what is it called when We see ourselves through the eyes of other people, even to the extent of incorporating their views of us into our own self-concept

and who came up with this
Looking glass self
and
Charles Horton Cooley
what is Socialization
a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
what is a A mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach
stigma
what is the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
dramatyrgy
what is marriage outside of a specific group especially as required by custom or law
exogamy
marriage within a specific group as required by custom or law
endogamy
what is a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

or

traditionally, a group of relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption, living in close proximity or together, especially if three generations are involved
extended family
what is a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
nuclear family
what are All the persons who live in the same individual residence at a given time
household
what is dominance through threat of punishment and violence
dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
the doctrine of an absolute being
absolutism
what is

Relativism is the idea that some elements or aspects of experience or culture are relative to, i.e., dependent on, other elements or aspects.
Relativism
what must occur for something to be deviant
norm violation
why are things deviant
because we are socialized to think that certain things are deviant
what describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations
devance
that deviance is not a quality of the act because it is the result of personality factors associated with committing deviance. It focuses on the linguistic tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from norms. The theory is concerned with how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them, and is associated with the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotyping.
labeling theory