•A type of social influence involving a change in belief in order to fit in with a group (Also known as majority influence).

A Traditional Family Social unit of people related through marriage, birth, or adoption who reside together in sanctioned relationships, engage in economic cooperation

What is Group Think?

•Smaller groups of like-minded people who gather within a more dominant culture. Goes against the mainstream culture.

•A Minority Culture Within a Broader Culture Like-minded people who often feel left out of the dominant culture sometimes come together

Network of People Who are related through-Marriage, Birth, or adoption.

Primary Relatives- Mother Father Brother Sister Spouse Son

An Aunt and Uncle can be identified as a Tertiary Relative.

Primary group of people—usually related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption—who form a cooperative economic unit and care for any young who consider their identity to be attached to the group; and are committed to maintaining the group.

The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society

The Primary Agents of Socialization are Peer Groups, Family, Culture, Mass Media.

Shing-Ling had to show up in court and pay a fine because the police officer caught her speeding. This is an example of a(an)

Lisa cheats when playing checkers. As a result, her friends have stopped playing this game with her. This is an example of ______

In the United States, it is common for guests at weddings to throw rice at the newly married couple as they leave the ceremony. This is an example of _____

A Custom is practiced by a large enough groups of people that it becomes accepted to be a trait of that cultural group

The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. Made up of different customs, practices, traits, and beliefs. What people Care about, and what people take care of

Social unit of people related through marriage, birth, or adoption who reside together in sanctioned relationships, engage in economic cooperation, socially approved sexual relations, and reproduction and child rearing.

Things that people do that is a reflection of culture. Practices are actual manifestations of culture

Intangible thought process and ideas as connected to a culture.

A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

Activities, services, products, assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes (rock concerts, spectator sports, movies, and TV soap operas and sit coms.)

Wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations.

a type of social influence involving a change in belief in order to fit in with a group (Also known as majority influence)

Techniques, tools that allow people to transform resources into usable forms and the knowledge and skills required to use what is developed.

The doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.An action (or type of action) is right if it tends to promote happiness or pleasure and wrong if it tends to produce unhappiness or pain.

Values are determined by the society we grow up in, and there are no universal values. Values are simply customs or conventions that vary from culture to culture.

Only a good will has ultimate moral value. Moral rules should be universal. Believed that certain types of actions (including murder, theft, and lying) were absolutely prohibited, even in cases where the action would bring about more happiness than the alternative.

A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another. Humans have unique ability to express abstract concepts and rules and thus to create and transmit culture from one generation to the next.

Classical music, opera, ballet, live theater, and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences, composed primarily of members of the upper classes, who have the time, money, and knowledge assumed to be necessary for its appreciation..

The practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture. Assume one’s way of life is superior to all others

The belief that the behaviors and customs of any culture must be viewed and analyzed by the culture’s own standards

How do sociologists define society?

Which of the following is an element of culture?

What is one way that language relates to culture?

Often associated with tradition, historical continuity, sense of place, and belonging.

How do sociologists view the role of culture in human behavior?

Carlos's first-grade teacher is teaching him that he should speak in class only after raising his hand and being called on. What is this an example of?

Cultural behavior must be learned.

The meaning of a symbol is based solely on its physical characteristics.

The Nuclear family is comprised of one married couple residing together with their children.