• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/38

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

38 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

C1, Individualistic explanation

The tendency to attribute people's achievements and failures to their personal qualities.

C1, Sociological imagination

The ability to see the impact of social forces on our private lives.

C1, Sociology

The systematic study of human societies

C2, Achieved status

The social position acquired through our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily.

C2, Ascribed status

The social position acquired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life.

C2, Coalition

The subgroup of a triad, formed when two members unite against the third member.

C2, Conflict perspective

The theoretical perspective that views the structure of society as a source of inequality that always benefits some groups at the expense of other groups.

C2, Culture

Language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society.

C2, Dyad

A group consisting of two people.

C2, Feminist perspective

The theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life.

C2, Globalization

The process through which people's lives all around the world become economically , politically, environmentally, and culturally interconnected.

C2, Group

A set of people who interact more or less regularly and who are conscious of their identity as a unit.

C2, In-groups

The group to which we belong and toward which we feel a sense of loyalty.

C2, Latent function

Unintended, unrecognized consequences of activities that help some part of the social system.

C2, Macrolevel

The way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces and structural features of society that exist above the level of individual people.

C2, Manifest function

Intended, obvious consequences of activities designed to help some part of the social system.

C2, Microlevel

The way of examining human life that focuses on the immediate, everyday experiences of individuals.

C2, Norm

The culturally defined standard or rule of conduct.

C2, Organization

The large, complex network of positions created for a specific purpose and characterized by a heirarchical division of labor.

C2, Out-groups

The groups to which we don't belong and toward which we feel a certain amount of antagonism.

C2, Primary group

The collection of individuals who are together for a relatively long period, whose members have a direct contact with and feel emotional attachment to one another.

C2, Role

The set of expectations-rights, obligations, behaviours and duties associated with a particular status.

C2, Role conflict

The frustration people feel when the demands of one role they are expected to fulfill clash with the demands of another role.

C2, Role strain

The situations in which people lack the necessary resources to fulfill the demands of a particular role.

C2, Secondary group

The relatively impersonal collection of indiviuals that is established to perform a specific task.

C2, Social institution

The stable set of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations--such as the institutions of education, family, politics, religion, health care, or the economy--that provide a foundation for behavior in some major area of social life.

C2, Society

A popluation of people living in the same geographic areas who share a culture and a common identity and whose members are subject to the same politcal authority.

C2, Status

Any named social position that people can occupy

C2, Structural-functionalist perspective

The theoretical perspective that posits that social institutions are structured to maintain stability and order in society.

C2, Symbol

Something used to represent or stand for something else.

C2, Symbolic interactionism

The theoretical perspective that explains society and social structure through an examination of the microlevel, personal, day-to-day exchanges of people as individuals, pairs, or groups.

C2, Triad

A group consisting of three people.

C2, Value

The standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes.

C3, Qualitative research

Sociological research based on nonnumeric information (text, written words, phrases, symbols, and observations) that describes people, actions, or events in social life.

C3, Quantitative research

Sociological research based on the collection of numeric data that uses precise statistical analysis.

C3, Reactivity

A problem associated with certain forms of research in which the very act of intruding into people's lives may influence the phenomenon of being studied.

C3, Representative

The typical of the whole population being studied.

C3, Sample

A subgroup chosen for a study because its characteristics approximate those of the entire population.