Sociology pt.2

Culture helps people meet their biological, instrumental and integrative
needs

• Symbolic Perspective

• Conflict Perspective

• Functionalist Perspective

• Postmodernist Perspective

Values and norms help create and sustain the privileged position of the
powerful in society.

• Conflict Perspective

• Functionalist Perspective

• Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

• Postmodernist Perspective

People create, maintain, and modify culture as they go about their daily
activities

• Conflict perspective

• Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

• Postmodernist Perspective

• Functionalist Perspective

Cultures are based on simulation, and not on reality.

• Postmodernist Perspective

• Symbolic interactionist perspective

• Functionalist Perspective

• Conflict Perspective

is a collection of people who happen to be in the same
place at the same time but share little else in common.

• Group

• Category

• Aggregate

• Ingroup

refers to a number of people who may never have met
one another but share a similar characteristic.

• outgroup

• Category

• Aggregate

• Ingroup

is a group to which a person belongs and with which the
person feels a sense of identity.

• Ingroup

• Outgroup

• Reference group

• Network

is a group to which a person does not belong and
toward which the person may feel a sense of competitiveness or
hostility.

• Ingroup

• Outgroup

• Reference Group

• Network

is a group that strongly influences a person’s
behavior and social attitudes, regardless of whether that individual is
an actual member

• Ingroup

• Outgroup

• Reference Group

• Network

is a web of social relationships that links one person with
other people and, through them, with other people they know.

• Ingroup

• Network

• Outgroup

• Reference group