Sociology Midterm

The ability of individuals to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in their society.

• Sociology

• Sociological Imagination

• Sociological Perspective

• Psychology

The theoretical perspective that focuses on disagreements within a society and between societies.

• Conflict Perspectve

• Variance

• Culture

• Social Structure

 A person who developed sociology as the scientific study of society based on positivism, or certain knowledge.

• Booker T. Washington

• Karl Marx

• Langston Hughes

• Auguste Compte

The theoretical perspective that focuses on how people within a society interact, or influence on another’s behavior through the use of mutually understood symbols.

• culture

• diversity

• conflict perspective

• symbolic interactionism

Norms that are formally defined and enforced by officials.

• Mores

• Morals

• Laws

• Values

Scientific Study of the patterned ways in which people interact in social relationships.

• History

• Political Science

• Sociology

• Psychology

Focuses on groups rather than individuals, helps people understand how their lives are influenced by social forces.

• Symbolism

• Diversification

• Looking Glass Self

• Sociological Perspective

The knowledge, language, values, customs, and physical objects that are passed from generation to generation among members of a group.

• Culture

• Ethnicity

• Race

• Nationality

The theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contributions of each part of a society. (like a puzzle)

• sub culture

• counter culture

• functionalism

• behaviorism

Abstract, beliefs, rules, customs, family systems, and economic systems.

• Deviancy

• Socialization

• Non-material culture

• Taboos