Sociology test: topic(culture) plus voc

Wrote a book entitled "The Culture of Narcissism".

• Christopher Lasch

• Daniel Bell

• Napoleon Chagnon

• Margaret Mead

_____ felt the excessive focus on the self weakened the established values of hard work & moderation and threatened the capitalist system

• Christopher Lasch

• Robin M. Williams

• Daniel Bell

• Margaret Mead

_____ is the devotion to the full development of one’s talents and potential.

• selfishness

• ethnocentrism

• self-fulfillment

• conformity

Punishments or threats of punishment used to enforce conformity to norms

• negative sanctions

• positive sanctions

• formal sanctions

• social sanctions

Process of spreading culture traits from one society to

another

• narcissism

• ideology

• diffusion

• internalization

Process by which a norm becomes part of an individuals personality.

• ideology

• internalization

• sanctions

• narcissism

imprisonment, pay raises, suspension from school, and medals

• formal sanctions

• social sanctions

• positive sanctions

• negative sanctions

Extreme self-centeredness

• sanctions

• vested interests

• narcissism

used to enforce conformity to the norms for some people

• ideologies

• vested interests

• sanctions

• agents of social change

A reward or punishment that can be applied by most members of a group

• Informal Sanction
• Formal Sanction
• Taboo
• Drive