Sociology 101 Flash Cards 1

• 1. Social Interactions
• 2. Social Structure
• 3. Social Institutions
• 4. Social Change

It helps the individual in society connect their own personal experiences to what is happening in society

A Trouble affects the individual.

An Issue affects the society as a whole.

Debunking means to denounce inconvenient facts or social myths as false and was coined by Peter Burger

A deliberate intent

An unknown consequence

An analysis of the complete picture; Big

An analysis of a smaller detailed picture; Small

• 1. Functionalism
• 2. Conflict
• 3. Symbolic Interaction

We all follow the same path.

The more people relate with one another, the more smoothly society works

Social Solidarity - Emile Durkheim

The harder you work, the more god loves you

The use of power to create inequality in society

Power is the ability to control or coerce the weak to uphold social stability

The competition for social resources creates conflicts

Karl Marx

Symbolic meanings to objects, events, ideas, etc

e.g. Monetary Bills are important in society

Max Weber

• 1. Ask a research question
• 2. Review Literature
• 3. Plan a research design
• 4. Collect data
• 5. Analyze data
• 6. Report data

A way of life

A complex system of social behavior and human interaction that defines the way of life for a group of people (society).

Customs, traditions, ideas, -> Art, Music, etc

One feels that cultural ideals are superior to another group

A tangible aspect of culture or a cultural object

e.g. Middle Eastern culture's Veil

An abstract aspect of culture or ideas and concepts within a culture

e.g. Middle Eastern culture's Purdah, or act of sucluding women to prove lineage by means of Veil

• 1. Shared
• 2. Learned
• 3. Symbolic
• 4. Varies over time and place
• 5. Taken for granted

• 1. Language - Sapir/Wharf - Generates inequality
• 2. Norms - Standards for desirable behavior in society
• 3. Values - Right and wrong
• 4. Beliefs - Assume to be true, faith. Generates values

• 1. Folkway - Etiquette, traditions, customs
• 2. Moré - Strict
• 3. Taboo - Unspeakable

To disrupt norms in society to see how people react

Cultural hegemony

Conflict reduces political resistance, economic interests

A respected diverse culture within another, coexisting peacefully

A Culture within a society that rejects the dominant culture's way of life, hostile coexistance

Everday life and traditions produced by mass media; fad

The opposite is an elite culture

A uniform transition to a single language; English

• 1. Innovation / Technology - Culture Lag; Opposite = Culture Shock - threatened by change
• 2. Imposed - A forced culture
• 3. Diffusion - Influenced / assimilated cultures (e.g. pizza seems American but its Italian)
• 4. Changes in society (e.g. Civil Rights)

• 1. Family
• 2. Schools
• 3. Peers - Equal footing with; acceptance / approve
• 4. Sports - Important to fathers; pushed on boys
• 5. Media
• 6. Religion

Society looks down on you if you're a young boy and don't play sports

• 1. Set of beliefs
• 2. Serves the status quo
• 3. Distorts reality

Sports reduces the risk of being labeled

Men can show a connection with each other without the risk of being sanctioned with sports

Girls change the game to make fair

Boys adhere to the rule for competition

You're not going to win all the time; got to face disappointment

You feel incredible defeat if convinced of a win.

The life course

• 1. Pre-operationable stage - Language; Pre-conventional - Childhood
• 2. Concrete operational stage - Logic; Conventional - Adolescence
• 3. Formal operational stage - Abstract; Post-conventional - Adulthood

Marks transitions in life course; marked by ceremony

• 1. We note the reactions of others towards us
• 2. Our understanding of judgement is based on perception
• 3. Your behavior is affected

A radical shift in social expectation

• Military - Brainwashing
• Prison
• Stockholm Syndrome - Identifying with the kidnapper