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51 Cards in this Set
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Emile Durkheim |
Studied the idea of social facts |
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Erving Goffman |
Coined the term civil inattention |
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Karl Marx |
Coins the term alienation, abstractions and concepts |
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Norman Zinberg |
Set and setting effect drug addiction |
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Timothy Leary |
Experiments with hallucinogens, determined people have a better experience when they’re in a more relaxed setting |
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Robert Merton |
Coined terms using ‘Peer’ and self fulfilling prophecy (prediction that comes true because it is made) |
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Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings |
African American sister to the first lady had an affair with Thomas Jefferson, her ancestors claimed to be of Jefferson descent and biology proved them right |
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Social Mobility |
Movement within a social structure |
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Upward Mobility |
Moving upward within a social structure |
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Downward Mobility |
Moving downward within a social structure |
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Lateral Mobility |
Moving within class or between jobs |
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Industrialization |
The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one |
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Anomie |
Lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group |
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Social facts |
Values, cultural norms and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint |
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Demography |
Study of population |
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Political arithmetic |
Demographic and economic statistics of a political unit |
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Alienation |
We as a society invent concepts to understand the world but often forget we invented them and they become alien and then real to us |
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Survey research |
Gathers information from a population that can be used as representative data for a larger group |
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Socialization |
How we learn to be a human |
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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 |
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Gloss |
Cover up imperfections and make things smooth |
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Bell-shaped curve |
Normal distribution, how an idea or object with go through a phase |
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Census |
Numbers created by government in order to collect taxes and create armies, required in constitution |
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Replacement rate |
The percentage of a worker's pre-retirement income that is paid out by a pension program upon retirement |
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Fertility rate |
The amount of children a woman will have in her lifetime are related to the social economic environment she’s in |
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Median |
Middle number |
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Mean |
Average |
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Ethnography |
The scientific description of the customs of individual people and cultures |
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Set and setting |
What environment you are in when you do drugs will affect how you react to them |
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Revolution |
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system |
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Capital |
Financial assets or the financial value of assets, such as cash |
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Human capital |
The stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value |
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Social capital |
refers to the collective value of all "social networks" and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other |
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Capitalism |
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state |
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Intercalary |
Days not included on calendar |
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Matrilineal, patrilineal, bilineal |
Descent only through your mother/father/both (people related to you through your father/mother) |
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Matrilocal, patrilocal, matripatricolocal, neolocal |
Proximity to wife’s/husband’s/both’s/neither’s family |
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Clan/tribe |
A group of close-knit and interrelated families |
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Ethnic group |
Cultural similarities believed to be shared by a large group |
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Race |
Physical characteristics believed to be shared by a large group |
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Nationality |
The status of belonging to a particular nation |
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Incest taboo |
A cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between closely related persons |
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Endogamy |
Marriage inside group encouraged |
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Exogamy |
Marriage inside clan prohibited |
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Homogamy |
Seek out marriages with people similar to ourselves |
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The well-rounded man |
Someone who works hard but has a varied social life |
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Self-fulfilling prophecy |
Prediction that comes true because it is made |
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Matthew Effect |
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer |
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Civic Nation |
Know they're from different biological backgrounds |
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Ethno Nation |
Think they're all biologically connected |
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Tecknonomy |
Practice of naming someone after his or her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren |