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Sociology Chapter 1 - 7 Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
Sociology Chapter 1 - 7 Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
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Sociology Chapter 1 - 7"The Self" - correct answer-George Herbert Mead
-As an infant you only understand the "I" (only understand what they want)
-As they socialize, they begin to understand the "me" (how you should/are expected to
behave)
-This is based on the "other" (how others act/how it affects you, the references you use for
socializing)
-The "generalized other" is the application of what you've learned from others in a social
environment, even if you have never been in that specific environment before
Achieved Status - correct answer-something you've earned through individual effort (i.e.
CEO, Professor)
Anomie - correct answer-A sense of aimlessness felt when there is too little social regulation;
normlessness.
Ascribed Status - correct answer-something you're born with (i.e. gender, race)
Auguste Comte - correct answer-Understanding society through logic/scientific laws
governing human behavior
Back stage: - correct answer-How you act when you aren't filling a specific role
Breaching Experiments - correct answer-Developed by Harold Garfinkel; Collaborators would
exhibit "abnormal" behavior in social settings to see how people would react to this social
breach of norms
Broken Window Theory - correct answer-Developed by Philip Zimbardo, it explains how
social content and cues impact the way individuals act.
Civil inattention - correct answer-refraining from directly interacting with someone until there
is an opening signal.
collective conscience - correct answer-a set of norms by which members of society abide
comparative research - correct answer-multiple sources of information compared and
contrasted.
concerted cultivation - correct answer-structuring children's time with formal activities.
children learn how to interact with adults, follow rules, and manage schedules.
Conflict Theory - correct answer-The idea that conflict between competing interests is the
basic force of change in society and general.
, Conformist - correct answer-Someone that accepts the goals and the means to achieve the
goals that society has set for them
Consumerism - correct answer-the steady acquisition of material possessions, often with the
belief that happiness and fulfillment can thus be achieved.
content analysis - correct answer-collecting samples of subject and find the theme that ties
the data together
Corporate Crime - correct answer-White Collar Crime committed by an officer or executive of
a company
Countercultures - correct answer-deliberately opposes and consciously rejects some of the
basic beliefs, values, and norms of the dominant culture
Cultural imperialism - correct answer-Products of one society influencing another society
Cultural lag - correct answer-refers to the gap when material culture changes more quickly
than ideal culture
Cultural persistence - correct answer-culture is transmitted to new generations
Cultural Relativism - correct answer-coined by ruth benedict in the 1930's, idea we should
recognize differences and not judge base on these differences.
Cultural Scripts - correct answer-modes of behavior and understandings that are not
universal or natural, but that may strongly shape the beliefs or concepts held by a society.
Cultural Similarities - correct answer-universal customs among all societies
Culture - correct answer-what is modified or created by humans
Culture Jamming - correct answer-the act of turning media against themselves.
Culture shock - correct answer-sense of confusion that accompanies exposures to an
unfamiliar environment
Deterrence Theory - correct answer-based on the notion that crime results from the rational
calculation of its costs and benefits
Divide Et Impera - correct answer-Individual that purposefully breaks up other members of a
group
Dyad - correct answer-A group of two people, usually intimate, people are dependent on one
another for the group to exist.
Embeddedness - correct answer-The degree to which ties are reinforced (how close you are
with someone)
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