Sociology-101(Test 2)

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Culture:

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A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices.

"A way of life" created by humans.

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Material Culture:

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Everything that is a part of our constructed, physical, environment, including technology.

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Non-material Culture:

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Values, beliefs, behaviors and social norms.

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Subcultures:

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The distinct cultural values and behavioral patterns of a particular group in society.

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Values:

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Moral beliefs.

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Social Norms:

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How Values tell us to behave.

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Social Sanctions:

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Positive or Negitive, informal or formal action that enforce norms.

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Ideology:

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A system of concepts and relationships

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Ethnocentrism:

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The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own.

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Cultural Relativism:

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Taking into account the differences across cultures without passing judgment or assigning value.

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Media:

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Any formats of vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information.

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How does media act as a socializing agent?

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Media Promotes values.

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Hegemony:

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When socially powerful people use their influence to convince less powerful people that it is in their best interest to do what is actually in the most powerful person's best interest.

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How is hegemony related to the media and it's influence?

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The concept of hegemony, which is different from domination, is important for understanding the impact of media on culture and for examining how people and societies shape, and are shaped by, culture.

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Media Effects:

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Media effects can be placed into four categories according to their duration and intention: Short term and deliberate, Long term and deliberate, Short term unintentional, and Long term unintentional.

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Socialization:

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Is the process by which a person internalized the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learns to function as a member of the society.

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Socialization;Generalized other:

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An internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings regardless of whether we've encountered those people or places before.

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Socialization; Self,I/Me:

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Self: The identity of a person as perceived by that same person.

I: One's sense of agency, action, or power.

Me: The self as perceived as an object the "I"; as the self as one imagines others perceive one.

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Socialization; Agents of Socialization:

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Families, Schools, Peers, The media, and Total institutions.

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Status and Roles:

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Status: A recognizable social position that an individual occupies.

Role: The duties and behaviors expected of someone whi holds a particular status.

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Role Strain:

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The incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status.

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Role Conflict:

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The tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses.

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Master status:

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One status within a set that stands out or overrides all others.

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Social Construction of reality:

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To say that something is socially constructed is to say that people give meaning or value to ideas or objects through social interactions.

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Symbolic Interactionism:

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Is a micro-level theory based on the idea that people act in accordance with shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions.

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Dramaturgical Theory:

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Views social life as a theatrical performance in which we are all actors on metaphysical stages with roles, scripts, costumes, and sets.

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Impression management:

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Is a Goal-directed conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person object or event.