Soc 111 Exam 1 Flashcards
(30 cards)
According to the “sociological imagination,” social problems can best be solved by:
Changing social institutions and roles
Which famous sociologist coined the term “sociological imagination”?
Wright Mills
What is an example of how individual actions are constrained by external circumstances?
Decision to abstain from eating pork for religious reasons
Name for the rights, privileges, and obligations associated with relationships between particular positions.
Roles
Name for The American Medical Association, General Motors, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Organizations
Social institution that meets the societal need for providing members with a sense of meaning and purpose
Religion
Example of a primary group
Family
Sociological perspective that argues that society is a system whose parts work together to keep it running smoothly
Functional (structural)
The intended, obvious consequence of an activity that is designed to help some part of the social system.
Manifest function
This characteristic of the nature of language is shown by the words that have recently entered into the pop culture vocabulary–twerk and drone for example.
Changing
Any concept that can take on different values, or that has two or more categories.
Variable
Research that uses nonnumeric information–such as phrases, symbols, and observations–to describe people, actions, or events in social life.
Qualitative
Sample taken from a group would be representative of the student population at Norwich University
Students who are listed in the campus phone directory
This is the degree to which the way you are measuring a variable is accurate or real, or if you are really measuring what you say you are measuring.
Validity
The shared knowledge, beliefs, customs, and symbols of a society.
Nonmaterial culture
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An example of U.S. value placed on individuality
Nonmaterial culture
Americans often refer to the United States as the “greatest country on earth,” while Germans tout the superiority of “German engineering.”
Ethnocentrism
Giving someone a dirty look after he or she has made an inappropriate joke.
Sanction
This teaches the values and orientations of the statuses we will likely enter in the future.
Anticipatory socialization
Compared to girls, boys who violate gender norms experience ______ consequences.
Harsher
The play stage and the game stage are two important stages in the development of ______ ability.
Role-taking
the most powerful institutional agent of socialization, after the family in contemporary industrial societies
Education
Penitentiaries, convents, monasteries, and mental hospitals
Total institutions (people live together cut off from others)
