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Sociology chapters 2&3
Exam 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/26/2009

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Society
Definition
Number of people who interact and share culture
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Culture
Definition
The Belief, language, values, norms, behaviors, and material objacts that people create to deal with life problems
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High Culture
Definition
upper class has more access to expensive entertaiment
Term
Popular Culture
Definition
mass culture- that we all share
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Characteristics of Culture
Definition
1. Shared
2. learned
3. Took for granted
4. symbolic
5.Varies over time and place
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
tendency to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of one's own culture
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Cultural Relativism
Definition
Belief that all culture and cultural practices are different but equal
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Material Culture
Definition
tangible and includes tools and techniques
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Nonmaterial Culture
Definition
Symobles, Language, ect..
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Symbols
Definition
thing that carry meaning
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Abstraction
Definition
capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances
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Values
Definition
ideas about waht is right or wrong/ good or bad
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cooperation
Definition
capacity to create complex social life by establishing norms
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Norms
Definition
generally accepted ways of doing things
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Sanctions
Definition
The penalty for noncompliance specified in a law or decree
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Folkways
Definition
norms not strictly enforced
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Mores
Definition
core norms that are essential to society
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Taboos
Definition
strict norms that bring feelins fo revulsion if violated
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Laws
Definition
formalized norms with violation of which result in formalized punishment
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Production
Definition
making and using tools and techniques that improve our ability to take what we want from nature
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Sapir-Wolf thesis
Definition
influential arguemnt about connection between experience thought and language
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Dominate culture
Definition
culture of the most powerful group(not always largest)
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Subculture
Definition
culture within dominant culture that has distinct values and norms ex Rap, Amish, Gay
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Counter Culture
Definition
culture whose values and norms are at odds with dominate culture ex KKK
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Multiculturalism
Definition
Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture
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Cultural lag
Definition
tendency of symbolic culture to change more slowly tan material culture
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Socialization
Definition
process by which people learn culture
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Self
Definition
a set of ideas and attitudes about who they are as a idependent beging
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Id
Definition
represents drives, impluses, and sexual desire
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superego
Definition
moral belief, conscience, and ideal aspirations
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ego
Definition
mediates between id and superego
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Unconscious
Definition
The division of the mind in psychoanalytic theory containing elements of psychic makeup, such as memories or repressed desires, that are not subject to conscious perception or control but that often affect conscious thoughts and behavior
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Charles Horton Cooley
Definition
Looking glass self
Term
George Mead
Definition
I and Me (sifnificant others- people children imitate)
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Gilligan
Definition
how children teach gender roles
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Familes
Definition
Primary Socialization
Term
Primary Socialization
Definition
process of mastering the basic skills required to functin in society during child hood
Term
Kohn's and Larneau's Research
Definition
Working vs. Middle class parents
Term
Working Class Parents
Definition
Material rewards and Punishment
Obedience and authority
Communication as command
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Middle Class Parents
Definition
Symbolic rewards and punishments
Idependence adn creativity
communication as interaction
Term
Schools
Definition
Secondary socialization
Term
Secondary socialization
Definition
socialization outside family after child hood
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Hidden curriculum
Definition
teaches students what is expected of them in larger society
Term
Media
Definition
violence, sex, Gender Roles
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Peer Groups
Definition
consist of individuals who are not necessarily friends but about the same age
Term
statues
Definition
to recognized social position that an individual can occupy
Term
Jenson Arnett
Definition
Self Socialization
Term
Self socialization
Definition
choosing socialization influences from the wide variety of mass media offerings
Term
Self-fulfullinf prophecy
Definition
expectation that helps cause the situation it predicts
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Thomas Theorm
Definition
situation we define as real becomes real in their consequences
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Goffman
Definition
total institution
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total insitution
Definition
people are isolated from society through jail, institution, or by force
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Anticipatory socilzation
Definition
involves beginning to take on the norms fo the roles which we aspire to
Term
Virual Communities
Definition
people scattered accross nation or world communicate via computer
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