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a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on paternalism and is typically nomadic. daily life is centered upon the tending of herd of flocks |
pastoral society |
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is an organization devoted to the study and culture of cultivated plants. Such organizations may be local, regional, national, or international. Some have a more general focus, whereas others are devoted to a particular kind or group of plants. |
horticultural society |
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whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an argarian society is by seeing how much of a nations total production is in agriculture. |
Agricultural Society: |
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a group held together by intimate, face to face relationships, formed by family and environmental associations and regarded as basic to social life and culture. whose members share personal relationships |
primary group |
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they can be small or large and are mostly impersonal and usually short term, these groups are typically found at work or school. |
secondary group |
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group leader that emphasizes the completion of tasks |
Instrumental Leader: |
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group leader that emphasizes collective well-being |
Expressive Leader: |
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a leader that focuses on instrumental concerns,takes personal charge of decision-making, and demands strict compliance from subordinates |
authoritarian leader |
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leader that allows the group to function more or less on its own |
Laissez-faire leader: |
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the tendency of group members to conform by adopting a narrow view of some issue |
group think |
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aggregate |
not a group |
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you fit under certain characteristics |
category |
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. How does the level of inequality change through the six different type of societies? |
Hunting and gathering: maybe 50 people they are pretty equal with one anotherPastoral: becoming a little more sedentary with more leadership, free time, other jobs and inequality goes upHorticulture: starts growing stuff with seeds and becoming more sedentary this society can sustain hundreds of people maybe even thousands. Their is a larger hierarchy with even more leadership. The level of inequality rises yet again. sophisticated agriculture: PLOW; high level of inequality, peasants, slaves etc. Industrial: steam engine; mechanisation, machines do the work for you, not slaves. At the start of the age inequality is high but as time goes on it gets smallerpostindustrial:having predominately industrial jobs to service oriented jobsservice age: level of inequality drops furtherbio tech societies: everything is technology based like cloning and stuff |
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What did Stanley Milgram believe he discovered from his “small world phenomenon” study? Why did his research create skepticism? |
He believed people were connected within 6 people it is invalid because he picked big shots |
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How did Solomon Asch conduct his classic experiment on group conformity? Why did many of the subjects in the experiment give answers they knew to be incorrect? |
People give the wrong answers 75% of the time because they don’t want other people to not except them |
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How does group size affect intimacy and stability of a group? |
the larger the group the more stability it has the more intimate it is the smaller the group the less stability is has the more non intimate it is |
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What leadership style is best? |
all leadership styles have its time and its place |
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what is sociology |
study of social interaction (how our actions affect our culture and others) |
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what is sociological perspective |
see how our actions affect society - self improvement- understanding of other cultures |
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3 theoretical perspective of sociology |
functionalist-society is a whole unit made up of interrelated parts (families/groups) that work together *manifest -> intended purpose/ function *latent -> unintended purpose/ function symbolic interactionist- how people use symbols (key word) in everyday life *ex} symbol of a marriage, marital roles, student etc.-> what it means and their roles (change overtime) conflict-fight for scarce resources, not fair resources(not as much funding for female sports than for male sports) |
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what is culture |
language, beliefs, values, norms and material objects that are passed from one generation to the other |
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what is ethnocentrism |
use their own culture as yardstick for judging the ways others |
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cultural relativism |
trying to understand other cultures on those cultures terms |
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what is socialization |
the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group |
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what are the agents of socialization and examples |
Family, School, Peers, Mass Media. Family is most important as family is there from beginning and gives you initial beliefs and worldview, as well as teaching how to socialize. |
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what are the affects of social isolation- use case studies to support |
Without socialization, they struggled to interact with other humans. The isolated children lacked many basic functions of humanity, one of the girls couldn’t even feed herself. |
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hypothesis |
a statement on how variable are expected to be related to another (what you think the outcome will be) |
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close ended and open ended questions |
-open ---Pros: Unlimited answers. Answer in detail. Permit Creativity. ---Cons: Responses can be irrelevant or overly complicated. Comparisons are difficult. -close ---Pros: Quicker to respond. Easier to compare answers. Response choices can clarify meaning. ---Cons: Respondents with no knowledge can answer, Can give them answers they wouldn’t have thought of otherwise, desired answer may not be a choice. |
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quantitative |
numbers |
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qualitative |
description |
