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| What is the difference between macro and micro sociology? |
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| Macro focuses on the society as a whole where-as micro sociology focuses on individual social activities. |
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| What is the difference between psychology and sociology? |
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Sociology is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups.
Where-as psychology is the scientific study of mental and behavioral characteristics of a person or group. |
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| What is sociological imagination? |
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| An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society. |
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| What are manifest and latent functions? |
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| Manifest functions are the conscious functions where-as latent functions are the unconscious functions that may not be declared openly but serve that purpose. |
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| What is the structural-functional theory? |
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| There are many different groups within a society with different views, but holding the same overall perception of the society. |
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| a term used to explain normlessness within an individual or eroded perception of the norm. |
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| the role that a person's or group's ability to exercise influence and control over others. Creating social order. |
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| work of George Herbert Mead, who argued that people's selves are social products, but that these selves are also purposive and creative. |
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| What are the main methods for research used by sociologists? |
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| Surveys, Observations, Experiments, Existing Sources, |
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| a dynamic of being mutually responsible to and sharing a common set of principles with others |
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| Subculture Vs. counterculture? |
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a subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.
counter is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day |
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| Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. |
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| Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his or her own culture. |
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| Culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within an entirely different cultural or social environment, such as a foreign country. |
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| Folkways are the patterns of conventional behavior in a society, norms that apply to everyday matters. |
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| Mores derive from the established practices of a society rather than its written laws. |
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| A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, or discussions that are considered undesirable or offensive by a group, culture, society, or community. |
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| What are the 2 sanctions? |
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| Positive and negative, viewed by society. |
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| Ideal is what is expected (mom and dad) real is the real life view of that (perhaps 2 dads) |
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| Cultural diversity encompasses the cultural differences that exist between people, such as language, dress and traditions, and the way societies organize themselves, their conception of morality and religion, and the way they interact with the environment. |
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| Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct |
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| Popular culture (or pop culture) is the culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — which are popular, well-liked or common. |
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| The term socialization is used by sociologists, social psychologists and educationalists to refer to the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it. |
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| Psychoanalytic theory is a general term for approaches to psychoanalysis which attempt to provide a conceptual framework more-or-less independent of clinical practice rather than based on empirical analysis of clinical cases. |
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| Resocialization is a sociological concept dealing with the process of mentally and emotionally "re-training" a person so that he or she can operate in an environment other than that which he or she is accustomed to. |
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| Dramaturgy can also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story or like elements into a form that can be acted. |
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| Stigma (Sociological Theory), the phenomenon whereby an individual with an attribute, which is deeply discredited by his/her society, is rejected as a result of the attribute |
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| n criminology, the strain theory states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. |
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| Gemeinschaft (often translated as community) is an association in which individuals are oriented to the large association as much if not more than to their own self interest. |
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| In contrast, Gesellschaft (often translated as society or civil society or 'association') describes associations in which, for the individual, the larger association never takes on more importance than individual self interest, and lack the same level of shared mores. |
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