Sociology Exam 1

Norms

Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior.

Social structure

social organization based on established patterns of social interaction between different relationships

How does the sociological imagination inform research?

A sociological imagination brings new insights to the way we view how we live, exposing the opportunities, challenges, and constraints that we face. Beyond personal experiences, families need to be understood by examining how they interact with (and are influenced by) other social institutions

How is sociology different from other sciences?

Although sociologists study culture, individual behavior, politics, and the economy, their focus is always on how these and other issues affect and are affect by social groups and social interactions.

Sociological Imagination

C. Wright Mill's term for the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.

Social hierarchies

Divisions between rich and poor, elites and common people that have been a central feature of human society since the Neolithic era.

Sociological context

Environment where people were raise. The environment that makes up a social context is defined as a natural resource that enriches the life of an individual, including settlements, roads, farmlands and dams.

social interactions

Erick Erickson, in his theory that people are presented with conflicts to overcome during each stage of life, viewed individual aggression as emerging during the _____ _____ of early childhood.accidental, repeated, regular, and regulated. is an exchange between two or more individuals and is a building block of society

Population growth

Everything in society influences demography and demography conversely influences everything in society. After World War II, the United States began to recover from the long-term negative effects of the war.

Institutions

Identified with a purpose and permanence, transcending individuals' lives and intentions, and with the making and enforcing of rules and norms governing cooperative human behavior (Individuals can start an organization, they cannot start an institution. Institutions emerge.)

When did sociology emerge?

Sociology as a scientific discipline emerged in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenge of modernity: as the world was becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world was increasingly atomized and dispersed.

Fundamental question

Sociology attempts to answer fundamental questions about society and social change Why is a society the way it is?

SI Origin

The term sociological imagination was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology.

Urbanization

Urbanization is the societal trend where the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in the country side diminishes. Urban refers to the geographic territory within or close to a city.

Industrialization

is the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods.

Roles

the patterns and the style of statements and behaviors a person is able to perform across contexts