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30 Cards in this Set
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Who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution?
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Karl Marx
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According to Freud, this is the moral component of our personality.
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The super ego
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The people that most influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors are known as what?
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significant others
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According to Max Weber, what was a central factor in the birth of capitalism?
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The Protestant ethic
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Weber termed the readiness to invest capital in order to make more money as what?
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The spirit of capitalism.
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Weber felt that this should be the distinguishing feature of sociological research.
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objectivity (value-free/unbiased)
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Patterns of behavior that characterize a social group.
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Social facts
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Who spent his lifetime studying relations between African-Americans and whites in an effort to eliminate social injustice?
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W. E. B. DuBois
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According to symbolic interactionists, symbols are the basis of...?
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Social life
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Merton used this term to describe the unintended consequences of people’s actions that often help a system to adapt.
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Latent functions
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Who contends that conflict is found in all authority relationships?
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Ralf Dahrendorf
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When a sociologist examines the relationships between men and women in terms of basic inequalities, he/she would be taking a what kind of perspective?
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conflict perspective
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Functionalist and conflict theorists tend to focus on what patterns of society in conducting their analyses?
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the large-scale patterns of society
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What is composed of language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects?
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Culture
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If a person visits another country, he/she often feels disoriented and is unable to depend on his/her taken-for-granted assumptions about life. This sense of disorientation is an example of...?
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Cultural Shock
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Sociologists attempt to practice this to understand a people from the framework of their own culture.
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Cultural relativism
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Ways that we can communicate without words.
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Gestures
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The expected behaviors that develop out of a society’s values.
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A society’s norms
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Jeffrey Dahlmer was convicted of murdering and practicing cannibalism on his victims and sentenced to life imprisonment. This severe sanction was imposed because Dahlmer had broken a..?
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Taboo
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Sociologists use this term to describe groups whose values and norms are in opposition to mainstream culture.
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Counterculture
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In today’s society, the clash in values are so severe they are termed...?
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Culture wars
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Edward Wilson and other sociobiologists maintain that this explains human behavior.
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Genetic Programming
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The term coined by sociologist William Ogburn to describe a situation in which nonmaterial culture is playing a game of catch up with material culture.
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Cultural Lag
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In recent years, cultures have become more similar to each other as a result of travel and communication. This process is known as..?
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Cultural Leveling
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Historically, children who were reported as being abandoned or lost by their parents and
raised by wild animals were called...? |
Feral Children
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The process by which we learn the ways of our own groups.
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Socialization
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In Freud’s theory,what represents the pleasure seeking aspect of our personality.
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The ID
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When sociologists group people into categories based on their age, sex, educational level, job and income, they are trying to determine what?
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Their Social Locations
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Because of the computer and other technology, the world we live in can be considered a...?
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Global Village
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Karl Marx referred to the controlling class of capitalists who own the means to produce wealth, capital, land, factories and machines as...?
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The bourgeoisie
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