SO-1/2/25: Do Now

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The set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people have in common.

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culture

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An example of material culture is

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baseball hat

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Culture Shock: Differences and similarities are recognized. You become more relaxed and confident and able to cope up with the new culture.

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Adaptation Stage

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Culture Shock: Most situations have become enjoyable and you feel that you have become part of this new culture.

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Acceptance Stage

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Rules that define behavior. Once they are learned they guide social behavior

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Norms

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Society is seen as a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability and social order, focusing on how large structures fit together. +Mostly macro-level paradigm

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Structural Functionalism

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Functions generally performed by social structures, such as families socializing their children.

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Social Functions

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Any social pattern that disrupts the smooth operation of society.

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Social Dysfunction

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What are the shortcomings of a paradigm that assumes a society is functional and stable, dealing with change poorly and interpreting bad things as good?

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Shortcomings of Structural Functionalism

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Society is seen as being composed of complex groups who struggle over scare resources, taking change as fundamental to society, focusing on how society defines sources of inequality and conflict. +Mostly macro-level theory

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Conflict Theory