Sociology Chapter 1&2

Functional analysis

• The disorientation that people experience when they come in contract with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

• stresses that society is composed of groups that compete with one another for scarce resources

• Society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together

• A group that values that are not in conjunction with the dominant cultur

When did sociology emerge

• The Middle of 19th Century

• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• The Middle of 18 Century

Followed by a list of possible answers to be selected by the respondent.

• Closed-ended question

• Open-ended question

consists of symbols that people use

• Language

• Culture shock

• Cultural relativism

• Symbolic culture

Ideas of what is desirable in life

• culture

• subculture

• values

• gestures

Questions that respondents answer in their own words.

• closed-ended questions

• Open Ended questions

Not Judging a culture, trying to understand it on its own terms.

• Cultural Assimilation

• Cultural Appropriation
• Cultural Imperialism
• Cultural Relativism

ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another without using words.

• Sanctions

• Symbolic

• Language

• Gestures

Reactions that people receive for following or breaking norms

• Gestures

• values

• folkways

• sanctions

Subcultures

• A group that values that are not in conjunction with the dominant culture

• there is not one way to do anything

• people who follow the rules of the dominant culture