Sociology Exam 1

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Across
  1. 1. George Herbert Mead’s theory of the ________ states that identity and self-awareness develop entirely through social interaction rather than biological or innate factors
  2. 3. Practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards
  3. 6. Sociological perspective that focuses on shared meanings and symbols; society is a product of everyday interactions
  4. 7. Groups that join for material reward
  5. 10. Researchers should try not to have any negative impact on the well being of the people in their studies
  6. 12. Collection of people at the same place at the same time
  7. 15. Group dynamic changes with the number of people, there are more roles with bigger group size
  8. 18. Researchers should make sure the subjects aren't exploited
  9. 19. Association of two variables actually caused by a third variable
  10. 20. Sociological perspective that focuses on order and stability, depicting society as a system of parts all functioning together
  11. 26. Sociological perspective that focuses on partitioning of scarce and valued resources, emphasizing power struggle of society
  12. 27. A set of patterns favored by powerful segments of the population
  13. 31. Approach of systematic collection and analysis of data
  14. 36. Groups that join to pursue moral activity
  15. 37. Approach that starts with datat collection and generates a theory based on the analysis of the data
  16. 38. Goffman's analysis that people perform statuses like actors on a stage
  17. 39. Pattern of expected behavior for a particular status
  18. 40. Situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences ex. race
  19. 41. Proponent of rationalization of society and efficiency
  20. 42. Status that is most important to a person
  21. 44. Hiding what's done backstage to maintain status performance
  22. 48. People that are interacting in a defined territory and share a culture
  23. 49. ___ resocialization example is prison
  24. 50. Specific type of social norm that prescribes how a given social interaction should proceed
  25. 51. ____ for persons: subjects have to give informed consent (they have to understand the risk and benefits before signing up)
  26. 53. Role ___: incompatibility among roles of a single status
  27. 54. Discrimination based on one's (typically older) age
  28. 56. Knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from generation to generation
  29. 59. Ritzer's view of societal transformation to be more efficient, predictable, calculable, and reliant on technology
Down
  1. 2. Charles Horton Cooley's theory that our self-image is based on what we think others think of us
  2. 4. The process of learning a new and different set of attitudes, values, behaviors from one's own background
  3. 5. Groups that strongly reject dominant societal values/norms and seek alternative lifestyles
  4. 8. Societies where elders have the most wealth, prestige, respect, and power
  5. 9. ___ resocialization example is rehab
  6. 11. Rules or guidelines for behavior
  7. 13. Proposed theory of cognitive development which states that children move through four distinct stages of learning and reasoning as they grow from birth to adolescence
  8. 14. Looking at society through belief, structure, and behavior
  9. 16. Approach that begins with a theory and uses research to test the theory
  10. 17. Getting arrested, paying a traffic fine, going to prison, or being expelled from a university
  11. 21. Experiment that found people are likely to follow directions given by someone in authority, even if it means inflicting harm on others
  12. 22. Method of using preexisting data sets to answer a new research question or explore a different perspective
  13. 23. Relationship in which two variables change together
  14. 24. Cultural patterns that set apart some segments of society's population
  15. 25. Tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of a given issue
  16. 28. Type of social group that is larger and typically goal goal-oriented
  17. 29. Expanded from Piaget's theories to explain how a person's sense of right, wrong, and justice evolves from childhood through adulthood
  18. 30. Organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently
  19. 32. Role ___: when role expectations clash among two or more statuses
  20. 33. Psychologist that viewed society as a balancing of the primal drives of the id and the moral constraints of the superego through the ego
  21. 34. Informal norms ie. facing the front in an elevator
  22. 35. The consistency in a measurement (the process must yield same results when repeated)
  23. 37. Getting a disapproving glare, being gossiped about, facing social exclusion, or being laughed at for a social blunder
  24. 43. Belief that another culture is superior to one's own
  25. 45. Type of social group that is small and personal, lasting across time
  26. 46. Formalized norms ie. laws
  27. 47. Groups that forced to join
  28. 52. Process by which people come to understand societal norms, expectations, beliefs, and be aware of societal values
  29. 55. Mead divided the social self into two distinct components: one is how we think society perceives us and the other is our internal self
  30. 56. Solomon Asch's findings that groups generate ___
  31. 57. Measuring exactly what you intend to measure
  32. 58. People who may have never met, but share a similar characteristic