Human Behaviors Flashcards
(48 cards)
Assimilation
The culture uniqueness of the minority group is abandoned and the blend into dominant culture.
Bicultural socialization
Minority group or member masters both the dominant culture and his/he own. (Dual identity)
Ethnocentrism
Tendency to elevate our own ethnic group and its social and culture process over others
Accommodation
Partial cultural change, minority groups follow norms, rules, and standards of the dominant culture in specific circumstances
Structural functionalism
Society is a big system, all parts of society and social institutions work together to produce social harmony & equilibrium and embody shared norms and values
Manifest function
What appears to be the function of it
Latent function
What the social phenomena is actually contributing
Comformity
Keep trying to attain e goal by legitimate means
Innovation
Keep trying to attain goals by illegitimate means (cheating)
Ritualism
Don’t believe you will accomplish the goal, but continue doing the means (going to work, etc)
Retreatism
Give up on shared norms and values, don’t go for goals or continue doing the means.
Rebellion
A last resort, want to replace the norms and values put in place by social institutions with new ones
Symbolic interaction
Social structure doesn’t matter, but what does matter is face to face interaction that people have with each other and how in a specific time and place, two or more people making meaning of symbols
Mind
Capacity to think about the self and experiences and assign meanings to them (make symbols)
Self
The symbol that you put together based on interactions with others and society, your social construction.
Marxian conflict theory
Society is a big structure, with social institutions set up by people with money and power to protect their privilege
Social exchange theory
Society so all about making deals with people in social exchange, we choose rationally.
Peter Blau: principle of Conflict Exchange
If people perceive inequality, the gap between superiors and subordinates grows
Subordinate collectively experience it with increasing sense of deprivation, codify an ideology, feel a solidarity together, and opposition becomes an end itself
Devolution (new federalism)
Reagan called the federal government sending responsibilities back to the states
Privatization
Government sells enterprises that produce goods or services to the private sector
Contracting-out
Government retains ultimate control, but contracts some activities with private organization.
Deregulation
Government gives up claims to regulate particular activities (more freedom)
Ecologically
Relationship to the larger social environment
Horizontal stressor
Historical events that unfolding linear way, moving through time (9/11)
