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What is sociology?

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The scientific study of human social relationships, groups and society’s.
Aims to understand human behavior, social relations and social institutions.
Requires that you build a foundation for your knowledge and understand the social work.

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What is sociological imagination?

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The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and larger social forces that help to shape them.

Examples: civil rights movement and millennials and resistance

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What is biography

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The individual

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What is history

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The larger social world

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How do biography and history intersect

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How much of what happens to you is a result of our current and past social worlds

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What is the difference between agency and structure

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Agency is the ability of individuals and groups to exercise free will and make social changes on a small or large scale
structure is patterned social arrangements to have affects on agency

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What does it mean to critically think

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The ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence.

  • how difficult
  • think logically and be clear
  • back up arguments w evidence
  • think abolse assumptions and biases
  • avoid anecdotal evidence
  • be willing to admit when you are wrong and uncertain about something
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Silent generation

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1928 to 1945

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Boomers

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1946 to 1964

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Generation X

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1965 to 1980

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Millennials

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1981 to 1995

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Generation Z

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1996 to 2010

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Alpha generation

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2011 to present

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General trends in populations numbers

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The age pyramid is turning into a rectangle.

As many over the age of 85 as 5 year olds

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What are the main points of the article “8 key differences between generation Z in millennials”

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  • less focused than millennials
  • millennial’s are better
  • millennials care more about prices than generation z
  • generation Z is full of early starters
  • generation Z is more entrepreneurial
  • generation Z has higher expectations than millennials
  • generation Z is high on individuality
  • generation Z is more global
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What is culture

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The beliefs, norms, behaviors and products common to the members of a particular group

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What is material culture

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The physical objects that are created, embraced or consumed by a society that helps shape peoples lives

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What is nonmaterial culture

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The abstract creations of human cultures including language and social practices

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What are beliefs

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Particular ideas that people accept as true

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What are norms

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Accepted social behaviors and beliefs or the common rules of a culture that govern the behavior of people belonging to that culture

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What are folkways

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Fairly weak norms that are passed down from the past, the violation which is generally not considered serious within a particular culture

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What are mores

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Strongly held norms, the violation of which seriously offends they standards of acceptable conduct of most people within a particular culture

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What are taboos

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Powerful norms, the violation of which is considered serious an even unthinkable within a particular culture

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What are values

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The general standard in society that define ideal principles like those governing notions of right and wrong

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What is real culture
The values and norms and behaviors that people in a society actually embrace and exhibit
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What is ideal culture
The values, norms and behaviors that people in a given society profess to embrace
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Cultural inconsistencies
A contradiction between the goals of the ideal culture and practice of real culture
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What is high culture
The music, theater and other cultural products that are held in particularly high esteem and society
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What is popular culture
The entertainment, culinary and athletic tastes should buy the masses
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What is mass media
Media of public communication intended to reach and influence a mass audience
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What is global culture
A type of culture -some would say US culture- that has spread across the world in the form of Hollywood films, fast food restaurants and popular music heard in every country
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What is ethnocentrism
A communities or societies cultural norms, values and practices that are internalized to the point where they become part of the natural order
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How does this term relate to the term doxic
Taken for granted as natural or normal and society
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What is cultural relativism
A worldview whereby the practice of a society are understood sociologically in terms of the societies norms and values and not the norms and values of another society
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How have attitudes about obeying social norms change over generations
- Younger generations said to be driven by individual needs and desires not rules - decline of social rules
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Miligram experiment 1963
Obedience to authority
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Asch experiment 1951,1974
Conformity | Yields to group influence
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Stanford prison 1973
Corruption the results from giving a group of individuals power Make ordinary people do things they never imagine doing
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How have desired traits and children change the silent generation
1924: strict obedience, loyalty to church, good manners 1988: independent, tolerance
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How has the naming children changed over the years
Names that show how great child is increasing
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What is so socialization
The process by which people learn the culture of their society
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What is social learning
The way people adapt their behavior in response to social rewards and punishment
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How can self-esteem be tired to social learning
Difficult to take criticism
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When did the self-esteem movement come about and why
In the 1980s because magazines and talk shows and books emphasize the importance of self-esteem
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What are some basic patterns and trends we see today as a result of this quest to keep kids self-esteem high
- Don't correct children's mistakes such as spelling or grammar - didn't fail but differed succes - kids should be independent speller so they can be treated as individuals - eight-year-old proud of getting half of the words right
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What is the Rosenbergs self-esteem scale
- Measures self-esteem in adults - more high self esteem than in 1968 - high school and college students more likely to believe they're superior to their peers
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What is the Coopersmith self-esteem scale
- Measures self-esteem in kids | - scored lower than 81% of boomers
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What is the NPI scale
- Narcissistic personality disorder - measures narcissism in normal population - younger generation more narcissistic
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If younger generations are more narcissistic what other action appears to contradict this behavior
- Rise in commitment to help others - more likely to volunteer - 73% of college students said helping others during difficulty was important
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Dramaturgy (goffman)
The study of social interaction as if it were governed by the practices of the atrical performance
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Presentation of self
The creation of impression in the minds of others in order to define and control social settings
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Impression management
Effort to control the impressions we make an others so they form the desired view of us and the situation
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Front stage
The places which deliver our performance to an audience of others
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Backstage
The place in which we rehearse and prepare for performances
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Looking glass self Cooley
That our self image results from how we interpret
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Primary groups
Small groups characterized by intense emotional ties, face-to-face interaction, intimacy and a strong , enduring sense of commitment
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Secondary groups
Groups that are impersonal and characterize or fleeting relationships
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Reference groups
- Primary groups that provides standards for judging or attitudes or behaviors - most influential in our lives provides the greatest impact in shaping early view of ourselves
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What is the bystander effect
Hey diffusion of responsibility which suggests the more people there are present to witness an event the less each individual feels personally responsible
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What does the term have to do with Kitty Genovese
People reported hearing screaming but did not react
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What is ambiguity
Not sure of the situation requires your help
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What is group Cohesiveness
If others don't react to send social cues
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What are Dyads
- Group consisting of two persons - offer intimacy and conflict - intense and unstable - share deepest secrets like best friends - might be too easy to dissolve
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Triads
- Group consisting of three persons - more stable than two people - mini play group mediator - main problem alliances a subgroup that forms between group members enabling them to dominate the group in their own interest
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How does increasing the number of people in any group tell us about group behavior
-As group size increases the intensity of relationships with in the group decrease while overall a group stability increases
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What does it tell us about individual relationships with in the group
- If one person leaves group still remain stable - cause members to avoid relationships with other groups - Bonds with some groups members may not be as intense as bonds with other group members
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How does individual power manifest appearance
Increase in surgery and beauty products
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How does individual power manifest materialism
42% a boomers said it was important to be well-off financially

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