SOC 1010 Terms

combination of terms from in person lecture

Sociology

the study of ALL social interaction

Sociological Imagination

taking our personal lives and connecting them to historical or social forces

New levels of reality

each generation faces new levels of reality, sometimes based on social or catastrophic change

Levels of analysis in sociology

Analyzes our relationships in different categories depending on size

When did sociology develop?

when farm workers turned into factory workers, industrial revolution

Karl Marx

The entire planet worked in social classes

Post Industrial Society Workers

Thinking labor more than working labor

Industrial Society Workers

agricultural or industrial labor

The Dialectic K.M.

each phase rows its own seeds that cause destruction or change to itself

Emile Durkheim

Society is powerful for the people, community creates social integration

Pre Modern Mechanical Solidarity

unity based on being the same

Modern Organic Solidarity

unity based on specialized divisions of labor and interdependence

Social Facts E.M.

Anything that can exercise control over an individual

Egoistic Suicide E.M.

caused from not being well integrated into society and having weak social bonds

Anomic Suicide E.M.

social norms lose their authority, leaving an individual lost from their true desires

Altruistic Suicide E.M.

So well integrated into society, sacrifice

Fatalistic Suicide E.M.

social norms are too much for one person

Max Weber

german sociologist

Verstehen M.W.

empathy, ability to take someones POV

Ideal Type M.W.

logically consistent characteristics of any social phenomenon

3 distinct perspectives of sociology

• Functionalist

• Conflict

• Interactionalist

Functionalist Perspective

views society like a human body, institutions are organs, FUNCTIONS

Manifest Functions

obvious and intended reasons

Latent Functions

not expected or purposeful events

Conflict Perspective

focuses on inequity and what you don’t have

Interactionalist Perspective

acting based on the meanings behind them, meaning is constantly changing and control the world we live in

Critical Theory

mass media in capitalist society creates and maintains inequality

Post Modern Theory

distrustful of science, objective

Culture

social heritage of a people

Society

organized continuing # of people living in a specific area

Material Culture

Physical items that hold culture

Nonmaterial Culture

aspects of culture that aren’t material

Socialization

the process where we internalize and learn about our culture

Components of Culture

• Norms

• folkways

• mores

Folkways

everyday norms on how to behave, not harshly punished

Mores

norms that differentiate right from wrong

Sanctions

punishments or awards for social norms

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

“the limits of our language are the limits to our world”

Cultural Universals

an element that is common in ALL cultures

Syncretism

when 2 or more cultural aspects come together to create a new idea

Cultural Relativism

a culture should be only be judges by its own criteria

Ethnocentrism

the belief that ones culture is superior to another

Counter Culture

subcultures that resist aspects of society