Sociology

focuses on groups and relationships

Folkways

informal social norms

 Multiculturalism

a point of view thast encourages tolerance for diversity

Conflic Theory

socialization as a means of legitimating social inequality

Social Structure

ordered relationships that guides social interactions

Master Status

dominates all other statuses

Deviance

and

Conformity

two ends of a continuim

that help define

social behavior

Stratification

 layers of people ranked a la access to scarce resources:

Upper Class

Upper Middle Class

Middle Class

Lower Middle Class

Lower Class

Technology

key to modernization theory in the development of

poor countries

Deviance

behavior that violates standards or expectations

Funtionalism

gender roles provide a "nutreal" useful division of labor

Stages of Dying

DABDA

Denial

Anger

Barganing

Depression

Acceptance

Bilineal/Bilateral

Descent

US ancestral lineage via mom and dads

Sandwich Generation

middle age folk taking care of children and parents

Secularization

spread of technology/modernization

decline in religion

Capitalism

private ownership of production for the purpose of profit

Demography

accounts of birth, deaths, migration, immigration

Conformity

act of going along with our peers

Euthenasia

"Hospice Ideal"

death with dignity and palliative care

"mainly pain management

Sociological

 Imagination

relates history to personal biography

Karl Marx

conflict between the haves and have-nots

W.E.B. Dubois

founded Afro-American sociology and the NAACP

C. Wright Mills

The Power Elite

decide for the wealthy and powerfull

Emile Durkhein

a funtionalist

studied suiciede, social structure

Auguste Comte

main founder of socologu; father of positivism

George Herber Mead

Interactionist

meanings established trhough symbols

Herbert Spencer

social Darwinist:

theory of society a la evolution

Max Weber

German;

gave us "ideal types"; study of bureaucracies

Charles Cooley

social bond theory;

inner control;

"looking glass self"

Erving Goffman

outlined impression management

George Ritzer

Mc Donaldlization of society

Herbert Gans

argued that poverty could actually be funtional

"crime as well"

Friedrick Engels

colleague of Marx;

gender equality before the rise of capitalism and private

property

Margret Mead

anthropologist who studied gender roles in other cultures

Talcot Parsons

an economist/sociologist;

founder of funtionalism

Thomas Malthus

"Reverend"

pastor who wrote in the 18th centurey about population

"food arimathicly";

"population exponentialy"

Ferdinand Toennies

Gemeinschaft(intimate)

Gesellschaft(impersonal)

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

death is not an act, but a process;

"founder of DABDA"

Maggie Kuhn

founder of the grey panther to work against agism

Harriet Martineau

sociologists as activists, not just commentators

coercive groups

orginizations or groups people are forced to join

Power

conflict theory;

deviance threatens those in power

Anomie

societal loss of direction;

social control ineffective

Culture

shared knowledge, language, material culture, behavior

Proletariat

the have-nots of capitalistic societies

Social Class

Marx;

social change involves conflict between....

Ethnocentrism

evalutes others through the lens of your own culture

Segregation

process via which people aquire attitudes of predjudice

Ideal Type

abstract model;

essential characteristics of phenomenon

Socialization

learn attitudes, values, behaviors for a particular culture

Impression Management

the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances

Gender

the social, cultural signifigance that we atach to the biological differences of sex

"what we become as men and women"

Gemeinschaft

close-knit community often found in rural areas

Socialism

an economic system under which the meas of production and processing are under the control of the people

Health

WHO;

state of complete well being;

physical, mental, social, spirtual

Sex

biological differences between men and women;

at a cellular level

Gesellschaft

large communities often urban that are large, impersonable with little comitment to the community

Public Sociology

the process of bringing the insight gained trhough sociological observation and analysis ino the public

Symbolic Interactionist

a sociol;ogical approach that generalizes about everday forms of scoial interaction in order to explain society as a whole

Globalization

world wide integration of governmental polocies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas

Personal Sociology

process of recognizing impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think, act and of taking personal responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others 

Bourgeoisie

the haves

Social Bond Theory

attachment to family, commitment to social norms and institutions, involvement in activities

Scientific Method

a systematic, organized series of steps that insures maximum objectivity and sonsistance in researching a problem

McDonaldlization

of

Society

Ritzer;

the process by which the principles of efficency, calculability, predictability, and contriol shape organization and decision making

Structural

Functionalism

a sociological approach that emphasizes the way in which the part of society are structured to maintan its stability

Human Ecology

people in the context of thier environments

Social Control

techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society

Power Elite

a small group of military, industrial, and governmental leaders who control the fate of the united states

Social Norms

established standards of behaviors maintianed by societies