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29 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices. |
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Material Culture |
Physical artifacts of culture. |
Money, clothing, technology, music, degrees
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Non-material Culture |
Values, beliefs, norms |
Religion, Santa etc, confidentiality, values of voices, marriage |
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Morés |
Highly, codified, formal norms that bring severe punishment when violated |
Laws, codes of conduct, rules |
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Folkways |
Informal norms that are mildly punished when violated |
Taking food out of other people's carts at the grocery store |
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Subculture |
Cultural values and behavioral patterns of a particular group in society. |
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Positive Sanction |
Encourage continued adherence to social norms |
Saying "thank you" when someone opens the door for you |
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Negative Sanction |
Social responses that punishes or otherwise discourage violations of a social norm |
Looks or whispers when you violate a social norm
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Culture Relativism |
Taking into account the differences across cultures without passing judgement or assigning value. |
Noticing other cultures have separate social norms and abiding by them. |
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Ethnocentrism |
The belief that one's own group is superior to others. |
You are the majority and everyone else is a minority. |
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Nature |
Within the person |
Genetics |
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Nurture |
Outside the person |
Family, peers, media, education |
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Anticipatory Socialization |
Process in which people practice the values and behaviors with statuses they will enter into the future. |
Children anticipate their future by playing "house". |
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Resocialization |
Process of learning new values and norms when adult leaves an old status and enters a new one |
CEO going to prison |
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Reflexive Behavior |
The ability to plan, observe, guide, and respond to one's own behavior. |
An empathetic self |
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Mead's Play Stage |
Imitation as play/pretend |
A child playing, but with no understanding or care for other roles |
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Mead's Game Stage |
Taking role of a "generalized other" |
Child understands the role of a homemaker/mother while playing "house" |
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Generalized Other |
Internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings |
Taking the role of someone else |
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Cooley's self mirror |
"I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think, you think I am." |
I think people want me to react this way so I will act this way. |
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Role |
The duties and behaviors expected of someone who holds a particular status |
My status is student, my role is to learn and pay attention. |
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Role Strain |
The incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status. |
Not able to perform the duties of your role. |
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Role Conflict |
The tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses. |
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Ascribed Status |
A status into which one is born; involuntary status |
The status of being a child |
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Achieved Status |
A status into which one enters; voluntary status |
The status of motherhood |
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Socialization |
The process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society. |
Following the social norms of your society, fitting in. |
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Social Institutions |
School, media, family |
Those that help you "fit in" with society. |
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Impression Management |
When you attempt to make a good impression, so you prep yourself |
Going out at a restaurant, first date, getting an apartment, court hearing |
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Dramaturgy |
Goffman The study of social life as a theater |
Interview: Role - Answer questions, sell yourself Setting - Office Audience - Interviewer, possible coworkers Script - Your answers to questions Props - Desk, chairs Backstage - Prepping/getting ready Front stage - Interview |
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Impression Mismanagement
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When you do something that you thought was backstage but you have an audience. |
Singing into a hairbrush at home thinking you're alone, but someone walks in. |
