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Mid-Term Flashcards

1
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What is sociology?

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The Scientific study of social life and social change.

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2
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What are the three levels of analysis?

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Micro
Meso
Macro

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3
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What do all social units connect to make up?

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Social Structure

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4
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What is a group of 2 persons called in a sociology study?

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Dyad

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5
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Who coined the termed sociology?

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Auguste Compte

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What sources can be studied when using the Existing Data method for a research?

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Newspapers
Police Reports
Studies by the Census Bureau

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7
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What is the Sociological Imagination?

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The relationship between individual experiences and public issues.

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8
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What are the ethics in sociological research?

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The researcher must remain free from personal bias.

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9
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What is an independent variable and a dependent variable?

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Independent variable: A variable which can affect another variable.

Dependent Variable: A variable which is affected by the independent variable.

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10
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What does the Functionalism Theory emphasize about social institutions?

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Social Institutions perform important functions to help social stability.

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What is a random sample?

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Every person in the population has an equal chance to be selected.

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According to Karl Marx, what are the two types of social classes in society?

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Bourgeoisie

Proletariat

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13
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What enables us to pass on culture?

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Language

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14
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What can ethnocentrism promote?

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Loyalty
Unity
Conformity

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Define beliefs.

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Specific ideas about life and how society works and how we fit in the world.

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What are subcultures? What are countercultures? What are some examples of each? What is the difference between subcultures and countercultures?

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Subcultures norms and values do not clash with the dominant culture.

Countercultures do clash with the dominant culture.

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17
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Define norms.

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Are rules of behavior shared by members of a society and rooted in the value system.

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What are the 3 categories of norms?

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Folkways
Mores
Laws

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According to Emile Durkheim, societies evolved from mechanic societies to ___________.

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Organic Societies

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20
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What is cultural relativism?

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Setting aside personal beliefs, not judging, understanding culture by their own standards.

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What is ethnocentrism?

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The belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.

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Values

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Shared judgments of what’s desirable and undesirable.

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23
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Define Social Construction of Reality.

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What is considered real, what culture is defined as real.

24
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Define Cultural Diffusion.

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Spreading culture characteristics to one culture to another.

25
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What are rites of passage?

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Celebrations or public recognition when individual shifts from one role to another.

26
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If a person is 65 years or older, can they continue experiencing socialization? Why or Why not?

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Yes, life long process.

27
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According to George Herbert Mead, which part of the “Self” requires the ability to take the role of the other and anticipate the other’s reaction?

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The “Me”

28
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Define Socialization

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The life-long process of learning to become part of the social world.

29
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Socialization is a _________ for all cultures.

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Universal

30
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What are Total Institutions?

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Total control of the residents. I.E. Prisons, institutions.

31
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In what stage do children begin to understand the generalized other?

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Game Stage

32
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Name the 3 agents of socialization

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Family
Peer Groups
Media

33
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What does our expressions of emotions depend on?

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Socialization and culture

34
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According to Sociologist, what is far more important as the central force in shaping human social behavior through the socialization process?

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Nature vs nurtured -> more important

35
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What are the elements of the Looking Glass Self Theory? How many are there?

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1.) We imagine how we appear to others
2.) We interpret their reactions
3.) We develop a self-concept.
Three

36
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What is the primary goal of Bureaucracies?

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To maximize efficiency.

37
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What are social statuses? What are the types of statuses?

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Positions people hold in the social world.
Ascribed
Achieved
Master

38
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What is frontstage and backstage behavior?

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Front stage is practiced, back stage is our true behavior where very little people see.

39
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What does appropriate personal space varies by?

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Cultural Setting

40
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What is a Reference Group?

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A group that are members that act as role models to another and establish standards against members who measure their conduct.

41
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What is an Aggregate?

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A collection of people in a place at the same time, but don’t interact.

42
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What was the linked variable that Emile Durkheim found to suicide?

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Social bond with others.

43
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What are the 3 types of suicide that Durkheim discussed? Explain each type

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Egostical -> Little bond with others
Anomic -> Lost job
Altruistic -> Willig to die for someone

44
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Why does social stability results?

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Groups induce their members to conform.

45
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What are the characteristics of Primary Groups?

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They have intrinsic value
Strong influence of behavior
Long lasting

46
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What is important for a group’s stability?

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Group Size

47
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What is Anomie?

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A state of normlessness

48
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In the U.S., what is the biggest subgroup living in poverty?

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Children

49
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What is social capital?

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Networks with others

50
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What does feminization of poverty refers to?

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Training with single females with children living in poverty.

51
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What did C. Wright Mills insisted about power in the United States?

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The power elite, power is concentrated in a small group.

52
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What are the two types of vertical social mobility? Explain each type.

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Intergenerational -> Vertical mobility from one generation to the next within the same family

Intragenerational -> Vertical mobility within a person’s own lifetime.

53
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Define Social Stratification

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Rankings of people in society based on value resource they have.

54
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What is conspicuous consumption?

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Individuals will do good things and we will see and respect them.

55
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According to Karl Marx, what is a class consciousness?

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A shared awareness in a means of their poor status in the means of production.

56
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What does a Lifestyle include? If we become millionaires, will our Lifestyle automatically change? Why or why not?

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One’s attitude, values, beliefs, and behavior problems. Winning monney will not let us buy a completely new life style.

57
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What do Power Pluralism Theorists argue about?

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They argue that power is not held exclusively

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