Soci

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What is the definition of sociology?

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The systematic study of human society

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What do sociologists apply to their examination of behavior?

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Theory and research methods

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Who is considered the founder of sociology, created the term sociology, and also created the term "positivism"- a belief that the word could best be understood through scientific inquiry?

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Auguste Comte

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What is considered the ability to see the relationship between what is happening in people's personal lives and the social forces that surround them (C.Wright Mills)?

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Sociological Imagination

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Who believed society was based on social facts-paterned ways of thinking, acting, and feeling that exist outside of any one individual, but that exert social control over each person?

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Emile Durkheim

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What is the loss of shared values and sense of purpose in society?

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Anomie

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What perspective is society composed of interrelated parts that all serve a function to provide stability and order, and societies create institutions that help the society survive (Durkheim)?

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Functionalist Perspective (Macro approach)

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What perspective are groups in society engaged in a continuos power struggle for control of scarce resources (Marx, Weber)

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Conflict Perspective (Macro approach)

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What perspective focuses on the interaction that takes place between two people or in a small group, and our behavior is strongly influenced by our subjective reality, how we interpret a situation (Mead, Blumer)?

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Interactionist Perspective (Micro approach)

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What focuses on interpreting description to understanding underlying meaning or relationship?

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Qualitative research

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What examines a subject using statistics, scientific objectivity to measure large groups?

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Quantitative research

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What investigates the impact of certain variables on a subjects attitude or behavior; looking for cause and affect relationship, use control group, experimental group (rarely used)?

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Experiment

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What refers to the unintended influence that observers of experiments can have on their subjects?

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Hawthorne Effect

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What is using data that has already been collected?

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Secondary Analysis

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What is the group that is the focus of the study?

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Population

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What is part of the population selected to represent the whole?

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Sample

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What is referred to as every member of an entire population being studied has the same chance of being selected?

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Random Sample

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What allows for opinion?

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Open-ended question

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What force an answer (qualitative)?

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Close-ended question

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Researchers observe people while joining in their activities?

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Field research/Participant observation

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A printed or written form to obtain information from a respondent

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Questionnaire

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Researcher obtains information through face-to-face, telephone, or online questioning

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Interview

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What is a study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act?

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Survey

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What is a detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically?

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Research design

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The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior?

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Culture

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Emotional reaction to the loss of what you know

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Culture Shock

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Stereotypes you take with you to a new culture

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Cultural Baggage

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Language shapes the view of reality of its speakers; helps to define a culture; jargon, and colloquialisms?

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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Honeymoon, Rejection, Recovery, Assimilation

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U-Curve Model of Cross Cultural Adjustment

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Guidelines for what we should do

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Norms

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A sense of pride; but also judging another culture by the standards of your own culture?

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging another culture by their own standards?

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Cultural Relativism

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Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted in a society

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Counterculture

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A world within the larger world of the dominant culture

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Subculture

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(Cultural change) Each shift in society is associated with invention (industrialization, age of information)

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Invention

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(Cultural change) Typically medical breakthroughs

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Discovery

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(Cultural change) Traits are passed from one culture to another; based on ethnicity, age, religion

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Diffusion

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(Cultural change) Cultural lag

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Cultural lag

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The process through which people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate for members of a particular culture?

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Socialization

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Charles Horton Cooley believed that we develop our sense of self from the perception of others, and it is based on how other people think of us?

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Looking Glass Self

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What are the four components that make up the self-concept?

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-Physical self
-Active self (activities)
-Social self (interacting with others)
-Psychological self (values)

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The difference between your self concept and your ideal self (who you want to be)?

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Self esteem

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What are the agents of socialization

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Family, School, Friends, Media

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Refers to the process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life?

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Resocialization

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Assigned to a person at birth; you can't change about yourself

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Ascribed status

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Attained through your accomplishments and efforts

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Achieved status

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A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position in society?

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Master status

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A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status?

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Social role

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Occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person

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Role Conflict

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Describes the difficulty that arises when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations?

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Role Strain

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The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's self identity in order to establish a new role and identity

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Role Exit

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What is the four step process of role exit?

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-Doubt
-Search for alternatives
-Departure
-Creation of new identity

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Distance zones

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Public distance
Social distance
Personal distance
Intimate distance