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