Sociology: A-Down-To-Earth Approach CH. 1-4 (Alphabetized)

Sociological Perspective

Antwort: understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context

Society

Antwort: people who share a culture and territory

Social Location

Antwort: the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society

Sociology

Antwort: the scientific study of society and human behavior

Sociology

Antwort: the scientific study of society and human behavior

Culture

Antwort: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next

Material Culture

Antwort: the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry

Nonmaterial Culture

Antwort: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"

Nonmaterial Culture

Antwort: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"

Culture Shock

Antwort: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

Social Environment

Antwort: the entire human environment, including interaction with others

Feral Children

Antwort: children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans

Socialization

Antwort: the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group -- the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them

Self

Antwort: the unique human capacity of being able to ourselves \"from the outside\"; the views we internalize of how other see us

Looking-Glass-Self

Antwort: a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing how others\' see us

Macrosociology

Antwort: analysis of social life that focuses on broad features of society, such as social class and the relationships of groups to one another; usually used by functionalists and conflict theorists

Microsociology

Antwort: analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction; typically used by symbolic interactionists

Social Interaction

Antwort: what people do when they are in one another\'s presence; includes communications at a distance

Social Structure

Antwort: the framework of society that surrounds us; consists of the ways that people and groups are related to one another; this framework gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior

Social Class

Antwort: large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education and who work at jobs that roughly comparable in prestige