mead and devolopment of the self - believed that the self was created through social interaction
and that this process started in childhood.
Mead believed that the self develops through several stages, including the preparatory stage (imitating),
the play stage (pretending), taking the role of t...
Sociology 1101 Exam #1 Review CSCC
mead and devolopment of the self - believed that the self was created through social interaction
and that this process started in childhood.
Mead believed that the self develops through several stages, including the preparatory stage (imitating),
the play stage (pretending), taking the role of the significant other, and the game stage (thinking
abstractly)
group/crowd - a collection of people who share some common attribute, identify with one
another and interact with each other// simply a temporary gathering of people in a public place whose
members may interact but don't identify
Conflict Theory - sees social conflict as basis of society and social change
Conflict- powerlessness and inequality Poverty- The rich
Crime- because they are jobless Disease- poor people no health care
Augustus Comte - stated that sociology needed to be treated like any other scientific discipline.
Development of human thinking.
Bourgeoisie - the ones who owned the means of production
bureaucracy - a type of secondary group designed to perform tasks efficiently.
Bureaucracies are impersonal but efficient, and they provide many basic necessities.
Correlation/ causation - a relationship between two variables/a relationship where one variable
causes another to change
culture lag - When material culture runs ahead of symbolic culture
, Culture Shock - the sense of disorientation you experience upon entering a new environment
Dramaturgy - describe the way people strategically present themselves to others
Emile Durkheim - Worked to establish sociology as an important academic discipline, Social order-
the bond that holds people together and what would happen if that bond came untied
Ethnocentrism- cultural relativism - meaning you are ethnic centered and your ethnicity is the
center of the universe.
Churches/Mosques/Families are all social institutions &&& the process of understanding other cultures
on their own terms, rather than judging according to one's own culture.
Ethnography - studying people in their own environments in order to understand the meanings
they give to their activities
Experimental/ control group - participants that receive the experimental "treatment" or
"intervention"/ participants that continue without intervention so they can be compared with the
experimental group
Exsisting Sources - refer to any data that has already collected by earlier researchers and is
available for future research.
Feminist Theory - looks at gender differences and inequality in society, structures. Considers
remedies.
agents of socialization - the social groups, institutions, and individuals that provide structured
situations where socialization occurs.
Major agents include:
1.family
2.schools
3.peers
4.mass media
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