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Is where you are situated in relation to others around you. Your gender,race,education level,etc & their relation to the rest of the people around you. It affects how those around you treat you, what they expect of you, and how they will interpret your actions

Social Location

The perspective you have on the world around you. It's the biases and assumptions that give us our unique perspective. Each of us has it and it is almost always invisible to us. Its shaped by our social, cultural, and personal experiences

World View

Biased to favor info. that confirms what we already know. Tend to accept w/out skepticism that which agrees with our world view

Conformation Bias

Tendency to favor personal explanations for an individuals behavior over situational explanations.

Fundamental Attribution Error

We can only understand a persons biography when we understand it's place within history. Individuals are products of their time,their community, and their understanding of the world around them.

Sociological Imagination

Is a way of looking at how society operates. Allows us to look at a single situation and take away multiple meanings.

Social Theory

"How does this create stability and security?"

Funcionalists

"Who benefits from this?"

Conflict Theorists

Those in power use this to ensure they stay in power

Hegemony

The idea that all social interaction can be viewed like a grand play where the whole world is a stage and each of us has lines, costumes, and props.

Dramaturgical Theory

Failed performance

Breaching / Going off script

Protecting the performer

Saving "Face"

Specifically ignoring someone who is either having a "backstage moment" in the front stage or someone who you've yet to share an opening with.

Civil inattention

Focuses on describing events in numbers. Seeks to quantify reality. Surveys are the most common form of

Quantitative research

Seeks to observe that which can not be quantified. Often involves long form interviews, or observation.

Qualitative research

Shared relationship that one variable has with another. Does not equal causality

Correlation

Correlation, Time Order, Ruling out alternative explanations must be present for something to cause something.

Causality

The symbols, beliefs, traditions, practices, and ideologies that create and guide everyday life. Everything that is not natural/biological in our world

Culture

Shared culture of a large group of people

Mass Culture

Distinctive culture that exists within the larger societal culture.

Subculture

Modes of behavior and understanding that are not universal or natural

Cultural scripts

Both are not natural , socially created , ever changing

Cultural values & social norms

Moral beliefs

Cultural values

How to behave based on our values

Social Norms

The belief that your culture is superior than another or that your culture is the "right" way to live

Ethnocentrism

Judging a society with it's values and beliefs

Cultural relativism

Not organic or naturally created, produced by institutions. Is biased and subjective

Culture

These want you to be temporarily influenced to some idea

Intended short term effects

These try to change the public's perception on something through repeated messaging

Intended long term effects

Refers to the biological side of humans

Nature

Cultural and social aspects of humans

Nurture

The process through which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a society and learn to function as it's members

Socialization

I am, who i think, you think i am

Cooley

Is the first version we come to know

I

Is the distinct sense of self that is perceived by others

Me

The people that exist outside one's self

Other

The broad understanding of how "people" will think of your actions

Generalized other

Parents who engage in this try to spot a child's interests and turn them into marketable skills or talents

Concerted cultivation

Family, education, religion, the media, health, government, economy, and the natural world

8 social institutions

Complex sets of ideas, arrangements, beliefs, statuses, and roles. Each perform a crucial social function. Passed from generation to generation.

Social institutions

The social institutions and other social organizations that guide and or force human behavior

Structure

When one status has multiple roles associated with it that are strenuous to preform

Role strain

When two separate statuses have conflicting roles

Role Conflict

The work you do to leave a former status behind

Role Exit

A set of relations - essentially a set of dyads - held together by ties between individuals

Social Networks

Set of stories

Tie

Refers to the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths within a social network

Embeddedness

Often produce the most new info.

Weak Ties

A gap between network clusters, or even two individuals, if those individuals ( or clusters ) have a complementary resources

Structural Hole

Is the info, knowledge of power or things, and connections that help individuals enter preexisting networks or gain power in them

Social Capital