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Sociology: A-Down-To-Earth Approach CH. 1-4 (Alphabetized)
Alphabetized version of Ch. 1-4 vocabulary from the textbook Sociology: A Down-To-Earth Approach
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Sociological Perspective
Answer: understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context
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Society
Answer: people who share a culture and territory
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Social Location
Answer: the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society
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Sociology
Answer: the scientific study of society and human behavior
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Sociology
Answer: the scientific study of society and human behavior
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Culture
Answer: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next
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Material Culture
Answer: the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry
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Nonmaterial Culture
Answer: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"
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Nonmaterial Culture
Answer: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"
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Culture Shock
Answer: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life
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Social Environment
Answer: the entire human environment, including interaction with others
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Feral Children
Answer: children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans
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Socialization
Answer: the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group -- the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them
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Self
Answer: the unique human capacity of being able to ourselves \"from the outside\"; the views we internalize of how other see us
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Looking-Glass-Self
Answer: a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing how others\' see us
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Macrosociology
Answer: analysis of social life that focuses on broad features of society, such as social class and the relationships of groups to one another; usually used by functionalists and conflict theorists
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Microsociology
Answer: analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction; typically used by symbolic interactionists
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Social Interaction
Answer: what people do when they are in one another\'s presence; includes communications at a distance
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Social Structure
Answer: the framework of society that surrounds us; consists of the ways that people and groups are related to one another; this framework gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior
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Social Class
Answer: large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education and who work at jobs that roughly comparable in prestige
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