fundamentalism

Social consensus

The majority of members in a society share a commen set vow values belifes and behavioral expectations

Wheel analogy

The idea that all aspects of an individuals life are conneted and if one thing falls apart so do the rest

What are the spokes that are connected

Family, economic, governmeant, education, religion

Manifest functions

Intended to overtly recognize by participants in a social unit (To teach students new knowladge and skills)

Latent functions

Unintended functions that are hidden and remain unackowlaged by parents

Dysfunction

Any undesirable consequence of an element of society

Talcott parsons

In order for families to be successful each family needs an expressive leader and an instrumental leader (father works, mother cooks/ cleans)

Three basic needs

Biological needs (food and procreation) strumental needs {(we have laws and eductions) MOST IMPORTANT integrative need (religion , art, dance ,music,, sports

De facto segragation

Segregating results from economic or social conditions or personal choice

De jure segragation

Racial segragation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies

Assimilation

Prosses wherev members of subordinate racial and ethnic group becomes absorbed into a dominate culture (people of all races buy lululemonm)

Cultural assimilation

The prosses by which racial or ethnic groups are absorbed into the dominant group by adopting the dominant groups culture

Structural assimilation

The social conditions in which the minority is accepted on equal terms with the rest of society

Biological assimilation

Ethnic group begin as to “mix”/ intermarry with members of the host society

Psychological assimilation

A change in racial or ethnic self-identification on the part of an individual

Ethnic pluralism

The coexistence of a virally of distinct racial and ethnic groups within one society

Equalitarian pluralism

Ethnic relations in which groups retain their cultural and much of their structural distinctness but participate on an equal basis in a common political and economic system.

Segragation

the seperation or isolation of a race, class, or group

Deviance

Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society (from being on your phone in class to murder)

Anomie

a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent

How can deviance benefit society

Help establish and clarify rules, can unite a group, can premote social change

strain theory

Merton's theory that deviance occurs when a society does not give all its members equal ability to achieve socially acceptable goals

illegitamate opportunity structure

circumstances that provide an opportunity for people to acquire through illegitimate activities what they cannot achieve through legitimate channels