| A | B |
|---|
| sociology | science that studies human society and social behavior |
| social interaction | social interaction how people relate to one another and influence each other's behavior |
| sociological perspective | ability to look beyond common beliefs to hidden meanings behind human actions |
| social sciences | related disciplines that study various aspects of human social behavior |
| sociological imagination | seeing connection between the larger world and our personal life |
| socialization | process in which we learn to be members of society and develop a personality. |
| norms | shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in certain situations |
| folkways | norms that don't have moral significance attached to them. they are behavior guidelines such as “don’t pick your nose in public.” |
| values | shared beliefs about what's good/bad or right/wrong |
| law | written rules of conduct enforced by government |
| mores | behavioral guidelines with considerable moral significance |
| conformity | behavior that matches group expectations |
| group behavior v. individual behavior | groups are not simply a collection of individuals. People’s individual behavior in a group setting cannot be predicted |
| theoretical perspective | set of assumptions about the nature of the phenomena |
| name the five key concepts of sociology | functional integration, power, culture, social structure, social action |
| social structure | patterns of social behavior in groups or society |
| power | ability of one party to get other parties to do its will |
| culture | language, norms, values, beliefs, knowledge, symbols, and physical objects shared by a group or society. |
| social interaction | any of the processes by which people influence one another as they interrelate |
| functional integration | interdependence of the parts in a system |
| the three sociology theories used most by sociologists | functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interaction |
| functionalism (functional perspective) | view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system |
| conflict theory (conflict perspective) | focus on forces in society that promote competition and change |
| symbolic interaction | approach that focuses on the interactions among people based on their mutually understood symbols |
| manifest functions | intended and recognized consequence of some element of society |
| latent functions | unintended and unrecognized consequence of some element of society |
| dysfunction | undesirable consequences of an institution or activity for the social system. negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system |
| symbols | something that stands for something else |
| C. Wright Mills. Why did C. Wright Mills think that sociological imagination was important to sociology? | It allowed one to range from the impersonal to the intimate features of human self and see the relationship between the two. |
| dramaturgy | humans play roles to present a certain image of ourselves, manipulate our audience, protect/hide ourselves, and amplify the rules of conduct that circumscribe our daily encounters. |
