Sociology Test 1
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- subculture
- self identified cultures united by shared interests that challenge the dominant culture
- identity
- the wat that individuals label themselves as a group
- social norm
- behaviors considered non deviant, generally accepted in society
- deviance
- behaviors considered non normal that violate rules and norms
- culture
- the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, inaterial objects and behaviors
- social construction
- our way of thinking about a phenomenon that arises form social intraction and can vary over time and place
- institution
- when what is normal becomes defined by rules, laws, and practices
- ethnography
- a method of social research used to study what people do, think, and believe in their group and includes observation as an outsider
- Durcheim
- functionalist collective dependent
- Marx
- capitalist monopoly developing societies
- Weber
- grouped society identities power relationships american society
- validity
- when referring to data,the degree of what we are measuring is what we say we are measuring
- reliability
- when referrig to data, the degree to which our measurement process consistently yields the same results
- social theory
- a set of statements or a way of thinking that explains behavior
- Functionalists
- work together to fulfill the functions necessary for society as a whole, whereby people are socialized into roles and behaviors that fulfill the needs of society
- Conflict theories
- have differing amounts of material and non material resources; groups with mroe power use it over groups with less power
- Interactionism
- a theory and a method stressing the importance of one on one interactions as the basis for individual and group behavior and the nature of society as a whole
- Issue Frames
- the social construction of a social phenomenon by media or specific political or social movement organizations which encourgae/discourage interpretations
- narrative (analysis)
- describes how individuals and sommunities conceptualize social phenomena in the form of stories and incourages or discouraes certain interpretations
- social structure
- arrangements of people, groups, and communities that give social life a measure of predictiability and order
- social identity theory
- suggests that groups define and differentiate through contrast with outgroups
- boundaries
- distinctions madebetween social catorgories that often result in unequal access to resources
- social movement
- has both instrumental and expressive goals and is a organized challenge to authority to promote change
- identity movement
- have only expressive goals. aim is to reinforce group identityor promote alternative identity