Exam 1 Socy200

Enculturation

The adoption of native cultural traits.

Natural Growth

Change in a population’s size calculated by subtracting # of deaths from the number of births.

Reflexivity

The self examination of one’s own assumptions, biases, and the role of being an observer.

Subculture

A cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs varying from a larger culture

High Culture

Intellectual products like literature, music, opera, in society.

Society

People living together in a ordered community

Concerted Cultivation

Middle class parenting style, structured life, active engagement, normal lowkey

Sociological Imagination

The ability to connect individual, personal experiences, to broader social forces.

Popular culture

Culture based on tastes of ordinary people

Gentle Parenting

Allegedly fostering a good parent-child relationship by raising them in a different way no punishment really.

Social Inequality

Unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and burdens in a society.

Enculturation

Lifelong process where individuals learn and internalize the norms of their own culture.

Foraging Economy

A subsistence system relying on the collection of naturally occurring wild plants and life in general

Social Institutions

Established, organized systems of social behavior that meet fundamental needs and maintain order.

Acculturation

assimilation to a dominant culture

Symbolic Interactionism

a micro level theory focusing on how individuals create meaning, define situations, and shape social reality through daily interactions

mobility and flexibility

concepts that describe how individuals move within social structures and how labor markets adapt to change.

social change

long term significant alteration of social structures and value systems within a society.

Kinship

a web of social relationships and cultural norms that define families via blood adoption or marriage

social facts

values, cultural norms, that exist externally to the individual. things that define social life like laws or language

structural functionalism

macro sociological framework, that views society as a complex, stable system with interdependent parts like education, family and government working together to maintain social order and equilibrium.

marriage

legally recognized union

Homophily

the principle that individuals tend to form social bonds and friendships with similar others. (birds of a feather)

Phenomenology

A theoretical approach that studies how individuals experience social reality.

Gender Roles

Socially and culturally constructured sets of expectations, behaviors for women and men in a society

Culture

shared system of beliefs, behaviors, and objects that members of a society create, use, and pass down

Qualitative Research

A method of inquiry that examines social life by analiyzing words behaviors to understand the how and hwy of human interaction

Culture and Personality

An approach studying how a society shapes the psychological traits of its members.

Dominant Culture

set of values, beliefs, practices, and norms that are held by the majority of the most powerful group within a society

Interviews

a method using open-ended questions to explore topics in detail.

Theory

A structured set of ideas and frameworks used to explain analyze and predict social phenomena, interactions and patterns.

Counterculture

A group whose values, norms and behaviors oppose, challenge dominant culture.

Ethnography

Qualitative research method involving immersive long term study of a social group, culture, or community in their natural environment.