soc. 208-2
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- "The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance; the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy&q
- Alex Carey, "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy"
- "You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the ernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news"
- Adlai E. Stevenson
- "THe true definition of insanity is to observe the same experieme nt over and over and expect different results"
- Albert Einstein
- The study of patterned social behavior among categories of peole, is antecedents, and its consequences
- sociology
- Knowledge acquired through the reciprocal relationship of systematic research, theory development and application. Sociology is a probabilistic science, not a deterministic one.
- science
- systematic observations to empirically explore, describe or document phenomena
- research
- a proposed explanation for empirical relationships. Explanatory outline of principles or rules
- theory
- Using the information gained in sociology to solve problems, improve the social condition, or bring about social change
- applied sociology
- the study of social and cultural influences on the individual and of individual influence on social behavior and culture; hybrid discipline combing sociology and psychology
- social psychology
- the organized totality of habits, attitudes and other traits taht are characteristic of an individual
- personality
- a relatively self-sufficienc unit, consisting of a number of people carring on a common, interdependent life that has continuity through successive generations
- society
- The rules or guidelines of behavior in a given social system
- norms
- important norms considered morally significant;violations are considered serious and invite formal sanctions
- mores
- informal norms such as customs; conformity is expected but violations are not considered immoral or serious
- folkways
- the category or group of peopole with whom a personidentifies, compares and evaluates oneself in developing behavior, norms and expectations
- reference group
- patterns of behavior corresponding to a particular status, which is a postion, standing or rank relative to others.
- role
- the process realted to socialization by which the learned behaviors and attitudes seem to be innate or natural. people have difficulty behaving or thinking differently from internalized behaviors and attitudes
- internalization
- the position that we cannot judge one culture by standards or another; that cultural traits cannot be understood or evaluated without reference to their fuction in the culture as a whole
- cultural relativity
- The tendency to sassume that our own culture is superior to others
- ethnocentrism
- polygamy
- having more than one spouse at a time
- polygyny
- having one or more wife at a time
- sororal
- having many sisters as wives
- polyandry
- having more than one husband at a time
- fraternal
- having many brothers as husbands
- bilateral
- having or formed of two sides
- matrilineal
- based on or traces decendents from a female line
- patrilocal
- Of or relating to residence with a husband's kin group or clan
- matrilocal
- Of or relating to residence with a wife's kin group or clan
- exogamy
- The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.
- endogamy
- Marriage within a particular group in accordance with custom or law.
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- polyandry
- Fraternal predominanat
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