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20 Cards in this Set
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What are the six components of culture?
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1. Symbol
2. Language 3. Gestures 4. Values and Beliefs 5. Material Culture 6. Norms |
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Define and Apply: subculture.
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Cultural patterns set apart some segment of society's population
Teacher |
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What are the seven agents of socialization?
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1. Family
2. Education 3. Peers 4. Media 5. Social Class 6. Neighborhoods 7. Religion |
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Define and Apply: macrosociology
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The study of large-scale society, focusing on the social structures that exist within a society and examining how those structures create the social world.
Socialization in a church community |
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Define and Apply: microsociology
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The study of the small interactions of daily life.
Socialization with your mother. |
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Define and Apply: Primary Groups
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Groups that are small, intimate, and enduring.
Yourself and your two best friends. |
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Define and Apply: Secondary Groups.
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Groups that are formal, superficial, and temporary.
Yourself and your sociology class. |
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Define and Apply: Status
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A social position that an individual occupies.
Student |
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Define and Apply: Status Set
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All the statuses held at one time.
Student, Sister |
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Define and Apply: Ascribe Status
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Involuntary positions
Sister |
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Define and Apply: Achieved Status
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Voluntary positions
Student |
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Define and Apply: Master Status
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Special Identity, what you introduce yourself as.
Student |
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Define and Apply: Role
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The behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.
Be prompt |
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Define and Apply: Role Set
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A number of roles attached to a single status
Be prompt, do homework, study, learn |
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List the personal space from closest to farthest
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1. Intimate Distance (0-18")
2. Personal Distance (18"- 4') 3. Social Distance (4'-12') 4. Public Distance (12' - greater) |
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What are the three decision making styles?
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1. Autocratic- determines group policies and assigns tasks
2. Democratic- determines group policies by discussion and agreement 3. Laissez Faire- Led by absence |
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Define and Apply: Cultural Relativism
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The practice of judging a culture by its own standards
Going to India to help solve the starvation problem and try to use the tools that they have to fix it. (Such as better farming techniques) |
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Define and Apply: Counterculture
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Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within society.
Nazi activists |
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Define and Apply: Ethnocentrism
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The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture.
Going to India to try to fix the starvation problem and telling them to kill a cow. |
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Define and Apply: Culture Shock
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Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's surroundings.
Two men holding hands in another culture doesn't mean that they are gay. |
