Sociology Review Part 1

A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, interacting with one another, sharing a common culture

• Society

• Culture

• Counterculture

• Popular Culture

• Subculture

Shared practices, values, and beliefs. Everything produced including the social rules

• Society

• Culture

• Counterculture

• Popular Culture

• Subculture

Rejects some of the larger culture’s norms and values

• Society

• Culture

• Counterculture

• Popular Culture

• Subculture

Define how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as good, right, and important. Most members of the society adhere to them

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

Embody the moral views and principles of a group. The strongest mores are legally protected with laws

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

Without any moral underpinnings

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

Broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by the people in a society

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

Symbols are gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words, help people understand their world

• TRUE

• FALSE

Language is a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted

• TRUE

• FALSE

Sociology is the study of ____.

• Human behavior

• mental processes

• social ills

• society