Sociology Test Chapters 1 and 2

What cultures have in common, such as: dancing, family, religion, music, ect.

• Culture Complexes

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural Trait

• Cultural Universal

Interactionist Perspective

• perspective that holds that societies evolve towards stability and perfection

• theoretical perspective that focuses on those forces in society that promote competition and change

• theoretical perspective that focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society

• theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system

anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it

• folkway

• Symbol

• Norm

• Mores

Conflict Perspective

• theoretical perspective that focuses on those forces in society that promote competition and change

• theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system

• perspective that holds that societies evolve towards stability and perfection

• theoretical perspective that focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society

theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system

• Conflict Perspective

• Interactionist Perspective

• Functionalist Perspective

• Sociological Perspective

Mores

• termed the term sociological imagination

• observable facts that involve human society

• norms that have great moral significance attached to them

• norms that don’t have moral significance attached to them

Social Darwinism

• observable facts that involve human society

• science that deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms

• perspective that holds that societies evolve towards stability and perfection

• individual act, tool or belief related to a particular situation

Norms

• shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

• termed the term sociological imagination

• individual act, tool or belief related to a particular situation

• knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes

Folkways

• termed the term sociological imagination

• observable facts that involve human society

• norms that have great moral significance attached to them

• norms that don’t have moral significance attached to them

Judging one culture based on the beliefs and values of another is known as:

• Afrocentrism

• Egocentrism

• Judgementalism

• Ethnocentrism