Sociology 101

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Age prejudice

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A negative attitude about an age that is generalized to all people in that group

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Age discrimination

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The difference and unequal treatment of people based solely on their age.

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Agents of socialization

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Are those who pass on social expectations. Everyone participates in this process: family, MaxMedia, cheers, religion, sports and school

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Anticipatory socialization

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The learning expectations associated with a rule one expects to enter in the future

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Attribution theory

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The principle that we all make inferences about personalities of others, such as including what others the other is “really like”

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Conflict theory

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Emphasizes the role of worsening and power of persons groups to exercise influence and control over the others in producing social order

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Consequences of socialization

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Establishes itself concepts. Socialization is Reflective and it makes people bearers of culture

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Culture

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Is the complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society. Believes, values, knowledge, are morals, law, customs, habits, language, and dress. The ways of thinking as well as a pattern of behavior. Defines what is perceived as beautiful/ugly, right/wrong, good/bad. It tells people how to behave. Tells them what to think in a particular situation. It is symbolic because of the significance lies in the meaning it holds for people.

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Culture lag

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The delay in culture adjustments to changing social conditions. The result can be culture shock. A Feeling of disorientation from a new or rapidly changing cultural situation

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Debunking

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The ability to look behind taken for granted things, looking instead to the origin of social behavior. Sociologists seek to look behind-the-scenes patterns and processes that shapes behavior they observe into social world. Easy to do when looking at a culture other than one’s own.

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Dyad

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A group consisting of exactly 2 people it is more stable

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Emile Durkheim

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He was Jewish. Antisemitism(Hatred of Jews) Was being expressed around him, as well as ill feelings in other regions. She wrote about what forces hold a society together, about the public rituals. He needed society as an entity larger than the sum of its parts. His work is the basis for functionalism

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Ethnocentrism

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The habit of seeing things only from the point of view of ones own group. It is ethnocentric to judge one’s culture by the stands of another culture. It leads to narrowminded conclusions. Build group solidarity

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Ethnomethodology

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A method of studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy

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Expressive needs

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Also called socialemotional needs. They are the function of the primary group given by the family and friends. Human desires, intimacy, companionship and social support.

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Foraging(Hunting – gathering) Societies

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Technology enables the hunting of animals and the gathering of vegetation. Technology is not permit refrigeration or processing of food

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Functionalism

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The view that society has an entity Larger than the sum of its parts

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Group

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A collection of individuals who: interact and communicate with each other, share goals and norms and have a subjective awareness of themselves as we, that is a distinct social unit

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Groupthink

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Is the tendency for group members to reach a consensus opinion, even if that decision is downright stupid.

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Interpersonal attraction

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Along with formations of pairs are needed more so by women than men. (According to the text).

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Language

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A set of symbols and rules that put together in a meaningful way and also provide a complex communication system. The formation of culture among humans is made possible by it.

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Material culture

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The objects created in society, building, art tools and other tangible object

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Mechanical solidarity

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When individuals play similar roles with in society. People share the same values and hold same thing sacred. Not very common in a contemporary society.

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Nonmaterial culture

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Includes the norms, laws, customs, ideas, values and beliefs Of a group of people.

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Nonverbal communication

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Is a form of social interaction and can be seen in various social pattern

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Object relations theory

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Says: social relationships of children to determine their adult personality. Attachment and individualization, children become freestanding individuals and children identify with their same-sex parents. (According to the text).

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Postindustrial society

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Characterizes by the generation of material goods, this society depends economically on the production and distribution of services, information, knowledge. This is information based society where technology is most important.

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Preindustrial societies

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A society that directly uses, modifies or file the land as a major means of survival, there are four kinds. Number one foraging(Printing – gathering) Society.2 Pastoral societies 3 horticulture society and 4 industrial societies

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Primary group

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A group consisting of intimated, Face-to-face interactions and relatively long-lasting relationships. An example is a family.

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Proximity

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Says you are more likely to be attracted to someone you are near two or have frequent contact with, such as who you sit near in class. The proximity has a strong effect on friendship.

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Reference group

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A group that may not belong to you but is used as a standard for evaluation your values, attitudes, and behaviors.

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Resocialization

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The process by which existing social roles are radically altered or replaced example military, conversion or the Stockholm syndrome

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Risk shift

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It is also called polarization shift. The shift can occur in either direction, driven by the influences of a group discussion, but there is generally some kind of shift in one direction or the other rather than no shift at all.

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Rights of Passage

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A ceremony or ritual that marks the transition of an individual from one roll to another.

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Roll set

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All the rules occupied by the person at a given time

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Secondary group

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Is in contrast to the primary group. They are larger in membership, less Internet, and less long-lasting; tends to be significant in that emotional lives people.

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Social learning theory

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The formation of identity to be a learned response to social stimuli

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Social networking

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A set of links between individuals, between groups, social unity is, such as bureaucratic organizations or even entire nation

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Society

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Is a system of social interactions that include both culture and social organizations. Social organizations bring regularity and predictability to human behavior at every level

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Sociologist

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Study the whole of their own society

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Sociology

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What is the name of this course

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Sociology

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The study of human behavior and society; a scientific way of thinking about society and its influences on human group

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Stages of cognition development

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1 Sensorimotor state 2 Preoperational stage 3 Concrete operational stage 4 Formal operational stage

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Status

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An established position within a group that carries With it a degree of prestige as well as a set of expectations

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The research process

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It process of discovering that includes 1) Developer research question 2) Create a research design 3) Data collection 4) Data analysis and 5) Reaching conclusions and reporting

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The socialization process

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The processor which people learn the expectations of society

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The tools of sociological research

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As six parts 1) polls, question ears and interviews. 2) Participant observation 3) Controlled experiments 4) Content analysis 5) Evaluation reach

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Tools of sociological research

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Includes.... 1) The survey: poles, questionnaires, and interviews 2) Participant observation 3) Controlled experiments 4) Content analysis 5) Historical research 6) Evaluation research

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Triad

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A group consisting of exactly 3 people. It is less stable and tends to segregate into a coalition of the dryad against the isolate

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Verbal communication

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Consists of spoken and written language and letters