Sociology 101- final study guide

The patterns and materials of thinking and behaving

Conflicting expectations within a single role

The degree to which those in a social system identify with it and feel bound to support it, willingness to cooperate to survive and prosper

Close knit, don't go outside the group -type of social capital

The ties between groups. Your network of people and resources- type of social capital

Minimizing the time taken on tasks

Being able to know what you're going to get

The same measurements and weights

Monitoring people, organization of restaurant

Includes factories, schools, roads, community centers and habitat restoration. Al contribute building other capitals for communities.

Includes values, beliefs and attitudes that are passes along to us. Also "embodied" capital such as an accent.

The skills and abilities of each individual within a community

Consists of money used for investment rather than for consumption

The landscape, air water, soil and biodiversity

The ability of a group to influence the distribution of resources within a small unit, including helping to determine what resources are available and who is eligible to receive them

Includes the networks, norms of reciprocity and manual trust that exist among and within a group and communities

 

Conflicted expectations between two or more statuses/roles

Theory: Multiple social identities combine to modify a person's status in society. Not all identities are equally influential. There is a "piece of the oppressor in all of us"

The top 1/5th of the U.S population had a household income over what (aprox)?

Established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior

People are scared to go to jail, so they don't commit a crime

Pay for what they've done

The direct or connotative meaning of what's said

What could be implied from the given statement

Focuses on individuals and their interactions

Focuses on social structures, problems and inter relationships

Movement between different positions within social stratification

People's capacity to make decisions

A quality of mind that involves shifting or combining perspectives in order to develop useful ideas about what is going on in the world

When things become popular before certain things are set in place. ex. cars before roads

A level or layer of reality. Constrains and coerces us in everyday life

The process of an individual or group learning norms and customs of a society through social interaction

What all cultures have in common. ex: Dancing, body decoration, rights of passage, incest taboo

Laws, deliberately restrict minorities

The chances people have to get ahead (opportunities)

Formulized behaviors or actions the group members regularly engage in

The evaluation of cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one culture

Expected behaviors

Relations between groups in regard to the hierarchal organization of status into the roles regulating behavior

When individuals in a group who act together without any planned action

Harm from trying to be efficient

One does not always cause the other

Longing for something in the past

Set of rules about how to be a good man

The process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one's sex

Decision-making by a group, especially characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to a perceived majority view

Socio-economic layering of society's members, according to property, power and prestige

The causes and consequences of social behavior. Awareness of the patterns in how characteristics and resources are distributed

Unintended functions

Apparent/intended functions

Ideas about the world and how it works

Theory: If people get together and define it is real, then it is and it has consequences