CC midterm

kinship (anthro)

human relations through mating, genealogy, adoption, and is defined by different cultures differently.

**Fictive kinship (anthro)**

constructed kinships such close family friends

**Patriarchy (anthro)**

sets the father as the head of the family, suggests men are responsible for decision making

matriarchy (anthro)

sets mother or woman at head of family or head of society

**School of thought ( anthro)**

a perspective within a field of study

**Institution (anthro and soc)**

Organizations, laws, practices, customs

**Materialism (anthro)**

Technological and economic factors are of the highest importance

**Determinism (anthro)**

an outcome is determined by preceding factors

**Infrastructure (anthro)**

Goods, services, materials needed for survival and prosperity

**Conscious mind**

The active and awake mind –decisions are thought about and made here

**Unconcious mind**

The dormant or latent mind –influences behaviours while awake, works through data/experiences while asleep

**The Id**

A part of the mind that seeks to meet basic physical needs and desires

**The Super Ego**

A part of the mind that seeks to meet our most ideal standards, such as morality, social acceptability

**The Ego**

A part of the mind which acts as the balance between Id and Super Ego

**Neurotic**

A state of mental disorder, usually the result of an unresolved issue from childhood

**Stimulus/Response**

an event that stimulates senses and the response that follows

**Psychoanalytic Theory Central Approach**

The unconscious mind can be unlocked through dream analysis, hypnosis

**Behaviourism Central Approach**

If motivations for behaviours can be identified, then behaviour itself can be controlled or corrected

**Behaviourism Objection**

looks at people as if they don’t have built in mental content

**Learning Theory Central Approach**

By controlling the ways humans learn we can influence both behaviour and personality

**Learning Theory Objection**

Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in our world view

sociology terms

institution, hierarchy, role, role conflict, values, norms, deviance, dysfunctional, assimilationist

role

position in society that comes with perceived status

role conflict

experiencing opposing demands or conflicting demands of two or more roles

**Functionalism**

examines the necessary institutions and structures in society and how each one keeps society stable

**Feminist Theory**

institutions are sexist and therefore dysfunctional, equity does not properly exist

**Neo-Marxism (or conflict theory)**

determining revolutionary conflicts, which are understood as struggles between social classes through materialism and economic factors

**Inclusionism**

Who is socially included/excluded and why, diversity must be strived for

**Symbolic Interactionism**

Individual interaction and interpretation

what is the objective of psychoanalytic theory

to bring unconscious material into consciousness and enhance the functioning of the ego