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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tendency to favor personal explanations for an individuals behavior over situational explanations. |
Fundamental Attribution Error |
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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 |
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Is a way of looking at how society operates. Allows us to look at a single situation and take away multiple meanings. |
Social Theory |
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"How does this create stability and security?" |
Funcionalists |
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"Who benefits from this?" |
Conflict Theorists |
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Those in power use this to ensure they stay in power |
Hegemony |
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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 |
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Failed performance |
Breaching / Going off script |
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Protecting the performer |
Saving "Face" |
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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 |
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Focuses on describing events in numbers. Seeks to quantify reality. Surveys are the most common form of |
Quantitative research |
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Seeks to observe that which can not be quantified. Often involves long form interviews, or observation. |
Qualitative research |
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Shared relationship that one variable has with another. Does not equal causality |
Correlation |
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Correlation, Time Order, Ruling out alternative explanations must be present for something to cause something. |
Causality |
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The symbols, beliefs, traditions, practices, and ideologies that create and guide everyday life. Everything that is not natural/biological in our world |
Culture |
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Shared culture of a large group of people |
Mass Culture |
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Distinctive culture that exists within the larger societal culture. |
Subculture |
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Modes of behavior and understanding that are not universal or natural |
Cultural scripts |
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Both are not natural , socially created , ever changing |
Cultural values & social norms |
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Moral beliefs |
Cultural values |
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How to behave based on our values |
Social Norms |
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The belief that your culture is superior than another or that your culture is the "right" way to live |
Ethnocentrism |
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Judging a society with it's values and beliefs |
Cultural relativism |
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Not organic or naturally created, produced by institutions. Is biased and subjective |
Culture |
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These want you to be temporarily influenced to some idea |
Intended short term effects |
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These try to change the public's perception on something through repeated messaging |
Intended long term effects |
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Refers to the biological side of humans |
Nature |
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Cultural and social aspects of humans |
Nurture |
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The process through which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a society and learn to function as it's members |
Socialization |
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I am, who i think, you think i am |
Cooley |
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Is the first version we come to know |
I |
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Is the distinct sense of self that is perceived by others |
Me |
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The people that exist outside one's self |
Other |
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The broad understanding of how "people" will think of your actions |
Generalized other |
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Parents who engage in this try to spot a child's interests and turn them into marketable skills or talents |
Concerted cultivation |
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Family, education, religion, the media, health, government, economy, and the natural world |
8 social institutions |
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Complex sets of ideas, arrangements, beliefs, statuses, and roles. Each perform a crucial social function. Passed from generation to generation. |
Social institutions |
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The social institutions and other social organizations that guide and or force human behavior |
Structure |
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When one status has multiple roles associated with it that are strenuous to preform |
Role strain |
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When two separate statuses have conflicting roles |
Role Conflict |
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The work you do to leave a former status behind |
Role Exit |
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A set of relations - essentially a set of dyads - held together by ties between individuals |
Social Networks |
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Set of stories |
Tie |
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Refers to the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths within a social network |
Embeddedness |
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Often produce the most new info. |
Weak Ties |
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A gap between network clusters, or even two individuals, if those individuals ( or clusters ) have a complementary resources |
Structural Hole |
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Is the info, knowledge of power or things, and connections that help individuals enter preexisting networks or gain power in them |
Social Capital |