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50 Cards in this Set
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Functionalist Perspective
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Macrolevel Analysis Level
Society is composed of interrelated parts that work together to maintain stability within society. This stability is threatened by dysfunctional acts and institutions. |
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Conflict Perspective
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Macrolevel Analysis Level
Society is characterized by social inequality; social life is a struggle for scarce resources. Social arrangements benefit some groups |
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
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Microlevel Analysis Level
Society is the sum of the interactions of people and groups. Behavior is learned in interaction with other people; how people define a situation becomes the foundation for how they behave. |
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Lee's Six Styles of Love
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1. Eros
2. Mania 3. Ludus 4. Storge 5. Agape 6. Pragma |
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Eros
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Love of beauty
Powerful physical attraction |
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Mania
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Obsessive love
Jealousy, possessiveness and intense dependency |
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Ludus
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Playful love
Carefree quality, casualness; fun-and-game approach |
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Storge
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Companionate love
Peaceful and affectionate love based on mutual trust and respect |
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Agape
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Altruistic love
Self-sacrificing, kind, and patient love |
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Pragma
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Practical love
Sensible, realistic |
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Reiss’s Wheel of Love
Stage One |
Rapport – ease of understanding attractiveness
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Reiss’s Wheel of Love
Stage Two |
Self-revelation – revealing values & beliefs
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Reiss’s Wheel of Love
Stage Three |
Mutual Dependency – developing reliance on each other
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Reiss’s Wheel of Love
Stage Four |
Need Fulfillment – Confiding and mutual decision making. Does relationship meet need for closeness & intimacy?
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Component One |
Intimacy – feelings of closeness and bonding
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Component Two |
Passion – romance, physical attractiveness, sex
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Component Three |
Decision/commitment – has 2 dimensions
a. short term – decision to love each other b. long term – commitment to love over time |
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Argot
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Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture
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Bilingualism
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The use of two or more languages in particular settings, such as workplaces or educational facilities, treating each language as equally legitimate
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Counterculture
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A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture
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Cultural Relativism
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The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture
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Cultural Universals
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General practices found in every culture
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Culture
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The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior
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Culture Lag
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Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions
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Culture Shock
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The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
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Diffusion
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The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
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Discovery
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The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality
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Dominant Ideology
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A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests
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Ethnocentrism
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The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to ill others
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Folkways
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Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern
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Formal Norms
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Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators
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Informal Norms
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Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded
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Innovation
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The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention
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Invention
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The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist
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Language
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An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture.
It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication |
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Law
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Governmental social control
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Material Culture
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The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives
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Mores
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Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society
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Nonmaterial Culture
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Cultural adjustments to material conditions, such as customs, beliefs. patterns of communication, and ways of using material objects
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Norms
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Established standards of behavior maintained by a society
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Sanctions
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Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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A hypothesis concerning the
role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought |
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Society
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A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside it, and participate in a common culture
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Subculture
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A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society
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Technology
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Information about bow to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
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Values
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Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper, or bad, undesirable, and improper, in a culture
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Xenocentrism
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The belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
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Describe the Objectives of Chinese Wedding Culture
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1)joining and enhancing 2 families
2) ensuring succession with numerous descendants 3)retain reverence for parents and ancestors 4)encourage wealth and maintain financial and social obligations (for ex: thru extensive gift giving) 5)Incorporate bride into groom's family |
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Describe the Process of the Chinese Wedding
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1) Proposal and acceptance of proposal; goes through a go-between so no one loses face if denied; if accepted groom's family gives bride's family gifts and if accepted, the go-between gets a document of the date and time of the girl's birth; given to G family and put on altar for 3 days and if nothing bad happens they go to astrologer for compatibility and then luckiest wedding dates; families then meet
2) Betrothal; bargaining and negotiating bride price; B family offers G family bridal cakes to signify done deal; several days later, B family presents list of her dowry 3) Preparing for the wedding day; traditionally B separates self and stays in a cock loft and hangs out with friends for a few days; installation of bridal bed, which groom is involved in; bridal bed installed by lucky person and their kids are encouraged to play on the bed for fertility 4) Day of wedding; hair dressing ritual; luckiest woman dresses her hair; father places a cap on G at the family altar 5) Procession from G house to obtain Bride; celebration; B friends will not give Baway without Ang Peu (pockets of money); groom takes B to his house and B required to step over saddle or small stove to ward off evil spirits 6) Wedding; simple, goes to G family altar to pay respect to ancestors and offer cup of tea to G parents; usually some kind of banquet after; 3 days after, B parents go to B's new home and she receives them as if they were guests, not her parents |
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Describe Germany Wedding
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3 Day Celebration
Day One: Thurs; couple gets together with close family and friends for civil ceremony; after ceremony, everyone goes out to dinner Day Two: Friday; Polterabend "Wedding Eve Party" hosted by friends and neighbors; smash things like plates to bring good luck; may nothing ever break again in your home Day Three; Saturday; religious ceremony if couple wants; followed by reception with traditional food; Ransom game at reception, groom has to pay ransom before couple can leave, promising to come to another party |
