Sociology Midterm
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- Sociology
- The systematic study of human social relationships in groups and societies
- Status
- A position in society
- Role
- Expectation of behaviors associated with status
- Prescribed role
- societies set notion of how one should act
- Role set
- Array of different behaviors attatched to the same status
- Norms
- expectations of behaviors in society (social rules)
- Values
- Shared ideas of what is good
- Social Institution
- Widely set of beliefs, norms, and procedures for meeting societies need.
- Conflict theory
- Social processes of conflict, competition, and change. Concerned with inequality. Always some who want power over others.
- Verstehen
- to understand by wlaking in someones shoes
- Social Facts
- Durkheim. Patterns of behavior that define a certain group.
- Class/Status/Party
- Property/Prestige/POlitical power
- Social Integration
- degree to which people feel a part of social groups. Durkheim
- Anomie
- Social power breaks down, and a state of normlessness ensues. Ex 9/11
- Social Reproduction
- class structure is reproduced from generation to generation
- Achievement Ideology
- belief that effort is rewarded with success.
- Agency-Structure Linkage
- An individuals ability to act in broader social structure.
- Social Capital
- Networking, and the people that you know that help you form connections.
- Cultural Capital
- It is what you KNOW that helps you in society.
- Human Capital
- It is your experience (resumés) that help you in society
- Habitus
- Attitudes, Beliefs and Experiences that affect how you see reality.
- Aspirations
- Goals without restraints
- Feminization of Poverty
- trend in U.S. where women head most poor households
- Culture of Poverty
- Conservative view that poor people have different values and beliefs than the rest of society.
- Deferred gratification
- Working hard now to get what you want later
- Intergenerational mobility
- Changes in social class between one generation to the next
- Exchange mobility
- the flux of people moving up and down the social ladder
- structural mobility
- Change in class due to changes in society
- Marx
- 1. Economics is determining factor of social class 2. proles and bourg. 3.Proles must have revolution and start over
- Weber
- Religion= driving force 2. religion linked to capitalism
- The protestant ethic
- Deferred gratification through frugality that emphasizes money and leads to capitalism. Society should be value free
- Durkheim
- Social integration important in decision to commit suicide. All societies have different degrees of soc integ. More subjective than weber.