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What is sociology?
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Sociology is the study of human behavior in society.
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Define culture.
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Sets of values and ideals that we understand to define morality god and evil appropriate and inappropriate
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Material culture
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Consists of things people make and they use to make them. The tools they use and the physical environment they inhabit.
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Symbols
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Is anything- an idea a marking a thing that carries additional meaning beyond itself to others who share in culture.
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Rituals
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Members of a culture engage in a routine behavior to express their sense of belonging to a culture.
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Symbolic interaction
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Examines how an individuals interacts with his or her environment.
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Structural functionalism
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A theory that social life consists of several distinct integrated levels that enable the world and individuals who are within it.
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Conflict theory
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A theory suggested that the dynamics of society both of social order and resistance, were the result of the conflict among different groups.
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Culture shock
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Is a feeling of disorientation because the cultural markers that we rely on to help us know where we are and how to act have suddenly changed.
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Cultural relativism
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A position that all cultures are equally valid in a experience of their own members.
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Counter cultures
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Offer an important grounding for identity, but they do so in opposition to the dominant culture.
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Subcultures.
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Is a group or people with a culture who share the same beliefs values or attribute that sets them apart from a dominant culture.
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Folkways
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Relatively weak and informal norms that are the result of patterns of action many of the behaviors we call manners are folkways.
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Mores ( Mo-rays)
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These are informally enforced norms based on strong moral values which are viewed essential to the proper functioning of a group. Examples: Laws.
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Types of research methods used in sociology
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1.Observation
2. interviews
3. Surveys
4. Content analysis
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