Sociology final

Edwin Sutherland

Criminologist that developed the idea of subcultures

Dalai Lama

Cultural factor in Tibet

Western Electric Company

Determine how various factors affected workplace productivity

Germienschaft

"Community"

Gesselschaft

"society"

Herbert Spencer

English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies

John locke

English philosopher propose the tabula rasa

Folkways

norms that are not strictly enforced

Bureaucracy

ranked authority structure that operates according to specific rules and procedures

John Guare

six degrees of separation

Christopher Lasch

social scientist who wrote The Culture of Narcissism

Arapesh

society in New Guinea show signs of both men and women behaving in traditional feminine way (passive & gentle).

Robin M. Williams

sociologist that analyzed American values and identified a set of 15 values central to the American way of life.

Kingsley Davis

studied Anna and Isabelle

Rene Spitz

studied the effects of orphanages on infants in 1945

George Herbert mead

symbolic interactionism

5 components of culture

technology, symbols, language, values, norms

iron law of oligarchy

tendency of organizations to become increasingly dominated by small groups of people

sociological imagination

the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote topics to the most intimate features of the human self and to see the relations between the two

function

the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its social system

Conflict

the deliberate attempt to control a person by force, to oppose someone, or to harm another person

Romania

Constant hand shaking

Mores

accepted standards and customs of a social group

Who developed sociological imagination?

C. Wright Mills

Margaret Mead

1930's anthropologist who conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation

Harace minor

1950s anthropologist to examine the rituals of the nacrima culture

How many traits have been deemed universal?

65

The Ik

An ethnic group located in the mountains of North East Uganda

Theory

An explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena.

Parkinson's law

Another humorous criticism of bureaucracies

Marvin Harris

Anthropologist who explored the religious prohibition in India against killing cows even when food shortages exists. "Cannibals and kings"

C. Northwate Parkinson

Argued " work expands to fill the time available for its competition"

Stanley Milgram

Ask people in Kansas and Nebraska to get letters to someone in Massachusetts (1,300 miles)

Five general characteristics of adolescence

Biological growth and development, undefined status, increased decision-making, increase pressure, and the search for self

1998 states with highest immigration

California, Florida , New York

culture universals

Certain features developed to ensure society's fulfillment

Post-industrial

Focuses on providing information and services

pre-industrial

Food production by human and animal labor

Emilie Durkheim

Frenchman who developed the country's first sociology course

Ferdinand Tonnies

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

San

Group that lives in Southern Africa that speak through clicks, rock painters, and live in small groups of 10 families

Trobrianders of the South Pacific

Group that permits adolescence to engage in sexual behavior before marriage

What started the change in Ringo bank?

Haircut which showed respect to customers

Daniel Bell

He felt that focusing on yourself was dangerous and that it weakened other more important values and threatened the capitalist system

Four main factors of personality development

Heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, cultural environment

Salaryman

Hiro

James Gilbert

Historian who believes youth oriented media is the blame for the rise in juvenile delinquency

Culture traits

Individual tools, acts, or beliefs that are related to a particular situation or need

Japan

Little finger painted straight up refers to girlfriend/ handshake developed here

Max Weber

Looked at society in separate groups other than a whole

J. S minion

Maintenance supervisor, favorite of senior officials at City Hall

hamogamy

Marrying with similar demographics

Yanomamo

Native American group that lives in the rain forest in Brazil (warfare and male strengths)

conflict perspective

Perspective focused on the forces in society that promote competition and change

Laurence J. Peter

Peter Principle, suggested that people are promoted to positions that they can't fulfill

Industrial

Production of manufactured goods

Deborah Tannen

Professor of linguistics, wrote "the argument culture"

Corporation

Ringo Bank

Difference between statuses and roles

Roles aren't definite

aggregate

Same place, same time

Major building blocks of social structure

Statuses and roles

Willard Waller

Studied American dating patterns and concluded dating was for entertainment

Robert S Lynd and Helen Merrel Lynd

Studied how the industrial revolution affected American culture

James M. Henslin

Suggested that education, religion and romantic love should be included as American core values

John B. Watson

Suggested that we could be applied to dogs can also be applied to humans regarding behavior

temperament

The fundamental emotional disposition of a person

Culture complex is the biggest unit of a culture

True

Dancing is an example of a cultural universal

True

"I"

Unsocialized, self interested component of personality and self identity

Ethiopia

Use one finger to silence adults and 4 for children

Daniel Yankelovich

Views the shift towards self-fulfillment as a beneficial change. He says it is a movement away from satisfaction based on material gain.

1998 states with lower immigration

West Virginia, north and South Dakota, Vermont, Montana

Verstehen (Weber)

a German word that means to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions

ideal type

a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society

Theoretical perspective

a general set of assumptions about the nature of things

society

a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity

Accommodation

a state of balance between cooperation and conflict

George Murdock

anthropologist that examined hundreds of different cultures in an attempt to determine what general traits are common to all cultures

Napoleon Chagnon

anthropologist who studies the Yanomamo

Culture complexes

clusters of interrelated culture traits

Social control

enforcing of norms through either internal or external means

Clans

families with common ancestors

Auguste Conte

father of sociology

Three main theoretical perspectives

functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism

organic solidarity

impersonal social relationships that arise with increased job specialization

Charles Horton

looking glass self

social phenomena

observable facts or events that involve human society

15 American Values

personal achievement, progress and material comfort, work, individualism, efficiency and practicality, morality and humanitarianism, equality and democracy, freedom

Reciprocity

the obligation to return in kind what another has done for us

Social psychology

the study of how the social environment affects an individual's behavior and personality

The exchange theory

theory that holds that people are motivated by self-interests in their interactions with other people

In the late 1990s more than 400,000 NANcompanies were in commercial bar

true

sociological perspective

understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context

Functionalist Perspective

view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system

social institutions

when statuses and roles are organized to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society