Quiz 1 Study Guide

Society

Individuals

Institutions

Social Processes

Social Structure

The Sociological Imagination

Intersection of biography and history

Personal troubles vs. public issues

Universals

Particulars

Theory

Qualitative Research

Participant Observation

Quantitative Research

Surveys

Social Problems

Controversial issues that relate to people’s lives and interactions.

  

Subjective

Objective

Pro-social

Anti-social

Norms: expected patterns of behavior

Collective behavior-Actions individuals take when norms are unclear

Emergent behavior-patterns that arise spontaneously, often in response to conflicts or problems. This behavior is not always legal

Media Bias

Participant Observation

Ethnography

Qualitative Research

Culture

Subjective/objective

Symbols

Meanings

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning.”

Culture is public because meaning is.

Thick description

Codes

Socialization

Gender socialization

Social construction of reality: persons and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other.

Culture as text

Culture

Ethnocentrism

Cultural Relativism

Diversity

Culture as way of life

Culture as human trait

Eurocentrism

Afrocentrism

Culture Shock

Elements of culture:

Symbols

Language

Values

Beliefs

Culture is shaped by technology

Hunter/gatherer

Pastoralism

Horticulture

Agricultural

Industrial

Post industrial

Cultural Changes

Invention

Discovery

Diffusion

Subculture

Counterculture

Multicultural