Sociology 1 Mcc

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Country has more people behind bars than any other

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United States

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A person who answers research questions

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Respondent

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Social interaction involves the trade of values

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Social exchange theory

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This type of behavior requires breaking a norm

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Deviance

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Behavior that people in a culture find relatively insignificant

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Folkways

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The part of the self that mediates the interest of the ID and Superego

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Ego

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The difficulty of meeting role expectations associated with multiple other roles

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Role conflict

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House, clothes, tools we use is this type of culture

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Material culture

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George Herbert Mead explained this behavior in order to understand communication with others

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Taking the role of the other

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A carefully controlled artificial setting that allows researchers to measure cause and their effects

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Experiment

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College, student, athletes are this status

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achieved

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A recognized social position that an individual can occupy

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status

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Study of methods ordinary people use to make sense of what others say

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ethnomethodiology

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A group of people against whom an individual evaluates his or her situation

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reference group

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Duirkeims theory

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functionalism

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Looking glass theory

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Charles Horton Cooley

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refers to the way society is organized in layers, or strata

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Social stratification

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involves people communicating face-to-face and acting and reacting in relation to other people.

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Social interaction

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a recognized social position that an individual can occupy.

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Status

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the tendency of symbolic culture to change more slowly than material culture.

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Cultural lag

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a set of distinctive values, norms, and practices within a larger culture.

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Subculture

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When an individual judges another culture by the standards of their own

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Ethnocentrism

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Individual rewards and punishments that ensure conformity

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Sanctions

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the least important norms and violating them evokes the least severe punishment.

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Folkways

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core norms that most people believe are essential for the survival of their group or society.

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Mores

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composed of the tools and techniques that enable people to get tasks accomplished.

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Material culture

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composed of symbols, norms, and other nontangible elements of culture.

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Nonmaterial culture

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asks people questions about their knowledge, attitudes or behavior, in either a face-to-face interview, or paper-and-pencil format.

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Survey questionnaire

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first step in a research cycle

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Hypothesis

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Any social concept that can have more than one value

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Variable

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the degree to which a measure actually measures what it is intended to measure

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Validity

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A set of shared rules that guide behavior as appropriate or inappropriate

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Norm

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a bounded set of individuals who are linked by the exchange of material or emotional resources.

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Social network

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a large, impersonal organization composed of many clearly defined positions arranged in a hierarchy.

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Bureaucracy

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composed of people against whom an individual evaluates his or her situation or conduct.

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Reference group

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Secondary group

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Friends

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Primary group

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Family

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involves carefully observing people’s face-to-face interactions and actually participating in their lives over a long period, thus achieving a deep and sympathetic understanding of what motivates them to act in the way they do.

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Participant observation

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Expectations about how males and females are suppose to act.

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Gender role

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Words delinquent, criminal, loser

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Label

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refers to an illegal act committed by a respectable, high-status person in the course of work.

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White collar crime

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Until recently many types of crimes were largely ignored against....

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women

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generally focuses on large, macro-level structures, such as the relations between classes. It shows how major patterns of inequality in society produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in others.

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Conflict theory

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stresses that human behavior is governed by relatively stable social structures. It underlines how social structures maintain or undermine social stability.

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Functionalist theory

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focuses on interpersonal communication in micro-level social settings. It emphasizes that an adequate explanation of social behavior requires understanding the subjective meanings of people attach to their social circumstances.

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Symbolic theory

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Determination of why things happen the way they do

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Theory

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social mobility that occurs within a single generation.

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Intergenerational mobility

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Coined the term sociology

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Auguste Comte

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the social mobility that results from changes in the distribution of occupations

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Structural mobility

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the allocation of rank depends on a person’s accomplishments.

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Achievement

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a status that depends on the capabilities and efforts of the individual.

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Achieved status