EXAM

Question 1

Patriarchy

Answer 1

Sets the father as the head of the family and is typically responsible for decision making and earning income

Question 2

Matriarchy

Answer 2

Feminine equivalent of patriarchy (sets female as head of family)

Question 3

School of thought

Answer 3

Perspective within a field of study

Question 4

Institution (A)

Answer 4

Organizations, laws, practices

Question 5

Materialism

Answer 5

Technological and economic factors are of highest importance

Question 6

Anthropology

Answer 6

Culture & cultural comparisons

How are cultures of world similar or different?

Question 7

Functionalism - A

Answer 7

What purpose does this institution serve? How does it contribute to social stability.

To understand a culture

Assumes stability in society and downplays negative results of institutions/ practices

Question 8

Cultural materialism

Answer 8

How to population and economic factors influence culture? What laws of development apply to all cultures?

To understand culture, u must examine their reproduction & economic production

Don’t allow for cultural differences, biased trying to make everything fit in 1 model

Question 9

Intuition vs knowledge

Answer 9

Intuition: based on feelings or personal experience

Knowledge: based on evidence from research or experiments

Question 10

Psychology

Answer 10

Study of human mind

Question 11

Conscious mind

Answer 11

Active and awake mind, decision maker

Question 12

Unconscious mind

Answer 12

Dormant mind, influences behaviour whole awake works through data / experiences

Question 13

ID

Answer 13

Part of mind for basic needs (food, sleep)

Question 14

Super ego

Answer 14

Part of mind that appeals to standards (social acceptability)

Question 15

Ego

Answer 15

Part of mind that is balance between I’d and super ego

Question 16

Genocide

Answer 16

The organized, systematic and deliberate removal/extinction of a group (religious, ethnic, etc) from society usually carried out by those who have social power

Question 17

Stimulus/ response

Answer 17

Event that stimulates senses and the response that follows

Question 18

Psychoanalytic theory

Answer 18

How does the Unconscious mind affect our actions
How can we understand it?

Not scientifically researched no proof

Question 19

Behaviourism

Answer 19

How can animal experiments help explore human behaviour? Do children respond to strict or flexible rules

Models do not apply because they are different

Question 20

Learning theory

Answer 20

How do humans learn behaviour? What mechanisms help ppl learn behaviour?

More research needed

Question 21

Psychology theorists

Answer 21

Psychoanalytical - Freud

Behaviourism - John b Watson (Benjamin Spock

Learning theory - Ivan Pavlov and Albert bandura (BOBO EXPERIMENT)

Question 22

Sociology

Answer 22

Study of society and human interactions

How does media shape society, institutions create identity,

Question 23

Institutions (P)

Answer 23

Organizations in society

Question 24

Norms

Answer 24

What is considered “normal behaviour”

Question 25

Deviance

Answer 25

Behaviour that isn't considered "normal"

Question 26

Symbolic interaction

Answer 26

To understand society we must understand how ppl think George m head - experiences shapes what we see

Question 27

Feminist theory

Answer 27

What does it mean to me a woman, sex issues, power issues, UnderStand nature of GENDER INEQUALITY Liberal, radical, Marxist

Question 28

Prejudice

Answer 28

Set of negative attitudes or feelings unfairly cast on a group of people with no reason or justification

Question 29

Systemic Discrimination

Answer 29

Policies, practices and laws that enforce or promote discrimination Formal: Laws Informal: social norms

Question 30

Conformity

Answer 30

To conform to society’s norms, what is considered “normal”

Question 31

Social Change

Answer 31

Shift in the organization,(politics, population), beliefs or values (laws, religion, education) or practices (travel, communication) of a society. Normal part of all cultures, some expected, some not

Question 32

Discrimination

Answer 32

Unfair treatment of people based on race, sex, faith, nationality, sexual orientation, wealth