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Robert Merton |
Famous American sociologist who created the term "Self-fulfilling prophecy." Created lots of terms used in the Amer language. |
Self-fulfilling prophecy |
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Arlene Gerenimus |
Demographer. Created the term "weathering". |
"Poor people get older faster than anyone else." |
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Dorothy Thomas |
Helped create the Matthew Effect |
"If people define situations are real, they are real in their consequences." |
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Erving Goffman |
Created "frontstage and backstage" |
"People are like con-operators." |
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Anthony FC Wallace |
Created "Revitalization- Revitalization- Religious movements that urge people [in collapsed societies] to change." |
The Indigenous man who was an alcoholic and made everyone stop.
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Emile Durkheim |
• "Society is a relection of collective consciousness." • Religion is the embodiment of collective consciousness • All societies have something one could call a religion • Religion explains what science cannot • "the sacred" is everything that has to do eith religion • "the function" the way something helps society |
"Collective consciousness" |
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Self-fulfilling prophecy |
The prediction that comes true because it is made. |
Term by Robert Merton |
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Patrilineal |
Father's lineal side. |
Pa ---> papa |
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Matrilineal |
Mother's lineal side (more common than patrilineal) |
Ma ---> Mama |
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Bilineal |
A part of both families |
Bi ---> Ma and pa |
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Matrilocal |
Living with the mother's family |
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Patrilocal |
Living with the father's family |
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Neolocal |
Doesn't live with either mother or father's family |
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Incest Taboo |
Incest is not about biology, it's about social facts and definitions. |
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Monogomy |
A relationship where one has only one partner |
Not u bitch |
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Polygamy |
Marrying more than one spouse, or having more than one partner |
Its u bitch |
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Polyandry |
When a woman has more than one husband |
Still not u |
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Polygyny |
Polyamory in which a man has more than one wife |
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Endogamy |
Marrying within one's community |
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Exogamy |
Marrying outside of the community |
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Macro - analysis |
Focuses on large-scale interactions such as societies, social structures) |
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Mecro - analysis |
Focuses on group interactions and behavior |
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Micro |
Focuses on individual self-agency |
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White Hall Study |
A team of social scientists spent a decade studying a businesses' health. |
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Social anxiety |
When one is afraid of embarrassing yourself in front of others, so you isolate yourself. |
Common in japan -> fear dishonoring their family |
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Taijin Kyofushu |
An emotional disease in Japan where [mainly women] are scared to speak to others because they fear shaming their family. |
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual |
Was a book full of mental disorders. In the 80s, we went from 2% to 14% after the description changed. |
Defined social anxiety in the 80s |
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Shasta |
A Native American tribe in Californa. A woman fell to the ground and her eyes would roll into the back of her head. They believe she was religiously connected. |
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Weathering |
Arlene Geronimus proposed this definition. "Poor people get older faster than anyone else" due to hard conditions. |
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Life Expectancy |
How long one is expecting to live. |
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Infant mortality |
The rate of which newborns die at birth |
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Koro |
Koro is a culture-bound syndrome characterized by a fear that the genitals or breasts will retract into the body and cause death. |
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Lattah |
(Psychology) a psychological condition, observed esp in Malaysian cultures, in which an individual, after experiencing a shock, becomes anxious and suggestible, often imitating the actions of another person |
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Collective Delusion |
Mass hysteria, a collective experience of delusions or hysteria in response to a threat |
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Matthew Effect |
"The rich get rich and the poor get poorer" |
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Recidivism |
Recidivism refers to reoffending, or the repetition of criminal acts by a convicted offender. |
Re-crime |
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Primary socialization |
Primary socialization is when a child learns the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture. |
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Secondary socialization |
Secondary socialization refers to the process of learning what is the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society. |
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Socialization |
The process in which lifelong process of learning social customs, norms, ideologies, etc. |
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Civil inattention |
Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another, without imposing on each other – a recognition of the claims of others to a public space, and of their own personal boundaries |
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Structural Functionalism |
Structural Functionalism is a sociologicaltheory that attempts to explain why society functions the way it does by focusing on the relationships between the various social institutions that make up society (e.g., government, law, education, religion, etc). |
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Functionalism |
Functionalisma stable orderly system |
Emile durkheim |
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Prickle Disease |
When Indian women fear that their nipples will disappear |
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Lattah |
Anorexia, but they dont remember they were anorexic |
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Dobu |
A society based on suspicion |
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Gloss |
When you ignore people's flaws |
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Latent functions |
Unofficials rules that no one speaks |
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Manifest functions |
Offical rules |
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Social solidarity |
When a society unites together |
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Social control |
Dressing, speaking, acting a certain a certain way |
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Symbolic Internationalism |
Reacting based on culture |
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