SHS101 Exam 1

anomie/anomic

sense of purposelessness, disconnection, or alienation

sociological imagination

seeing the connection between history and biography

5 research methods

P. S. I E. E.

culture

ways of thinking, acting, and material objects that together form ways of life

subculture

small cultural group with distinct values from mainstream society

counterculture

small cultural group with values that directly oppose mainstream society

ethnocentrism

judging other cultures by your culture’s standards

cultural relativism

viewing another culture from an internal perspective

dramaturgy

all of us all the time are performing, front stage or backstage

behaviorism

human behavior is learned, not instinctive

socialization

lifelong social experience where humans develop and learn culture

structural functionalist approach

society is a system whose parts work together - parts work together to create consequences

manifest functions

intended outcomes of a social pattern

latent functions

unintentional consequence of social pattern

social conflict approach

arena of inequality, recognizes that social patterns benefit some more than others

symbolic interactionism

society is a product of everyday interactions, emphasis on perceived “reality”