Sociological imagination - CORRECT ANSWER C. Wright Mills- the ability to see the
connection between the larger world and your personal life
Conflict
... [Show More] Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER people who employ this perspective focus on the
forces in society that promote competition and change.
Functionalist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER people who use this perspective view society
as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
Interactionist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER people who employ this perspective focus on
how individuals interact with one another in society; interested in the ways in which individuals
respond to one another in everyday situations.
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER the social science that studies human society and social
behavior of groups of people, not individuals.
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER the social science that deals with the behavior and thinking
of organisms
Social Darwinism - CORRECT ANSWER Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's theory of "survival
of the fittest" to social change and unrest. He believed that only the fittest societies would
survive over time, leading to a general upgrading of society as a whole.
Functions - CORRECT ANSWER the consequence that an element of society produces for the
maintenance of its social systems.
Ideal types - CORRECT ANSWER a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a
future of society.
Social sciences - CORRECT ANSWER related disciplines that study various aspects of human
social behavior.
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER Saw society as a set of independent parts that maintain
the system throughout time, and viewed these independent parts in terms of their functions. Also,
he wrote a book on how geographical area and events can trigger suicide.
Symbolic interaction - CORRECT ANSWER interaction between people that takes place
through the use of symbols
Social Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER Auguste Comte- states that certain processes hold
society together.
Social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER study of how an individual's behavior and personality
are affected by the social enviornment
Social phenomena - CORRECT ANSWER study of how an individuals behavior and personality
are affected by the social environment
Theoretical perspective - CORRECT ANSWER a general set of assumptions about the nature of
things
Manifest functions - CORRECT ANSWER the intended and recognized consequence of some
element of society.
Sociological perspective - CORRECT ANSWER the viewing of the behavior of a group in a
systematic way.
Cultural relativism - CORRECT ANSWER belief that cultures should be judged by their own
standards
Material culture - CORRECT ANSWER the physical objects that people create and use
Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER tendency to view one's own culture or group as superior
to all other cultures and groups
Margaret Med - CORRECT ANSWER conducted a now-class study of cultural variations. The
purpose was to determine whether differences in basic temperament (fundamental emotional
dispersion of a person) result mainly from inherited characteristics or from cultural influences.
Folkways - CORRECT ANSWER norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not
have great moral significance attached to them
Mores - CORRECT ANSWER norms that have great moral significance attached to them
Cultural universals - CORRECT ANSWER common features that are found in all human culture
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER an explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena.
Latent function - CORRECT ANSWER is the unintended and unrecognized consequence of an
element of society
Symbol - CORRECT ANSWER anything that represents something else and has a shared
meaning attached to it. (ex. Language, gestures, images)
Subcultures - CORRECT ANSWER a group with its own unique values, norms and behaviors
that exist within a larger culture
Countercultures - CORRECT ANSWER group that rejects the values, norms and practices of the
larger society and replace them with a new set of culture patterns
Society - CORRECT ANSWER a group of mutually interdependent people who have organized
in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity
Technology - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes
Norms - CORRECT ANSWER shared rules or conduct that tell people how to act in specific
situations
Culture Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER culture complexes combine to form larger levels called
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