UC Berkeley Sociology 1 Midterm Study Guide with correct answers

sociological imagination correct answersMills; the ability to perceive the interplay of man and society, biography and history, and the self and world; linking the individual life with the larger world and history social fact correct answersDurkheim; rules, both spoken and unspoken, which govern the way that one acts, speaks and thinks; they are external, collective, coercive, objective, and internalized institution correct answersa set of social arrangements, consisting of a relatively stable cluster of norms, values, behaviors, and expectations, that address particular realms of social life, constraining and enabling action to maintain social order culture correct answersdistinctive ways of life of a group of people; a store house of the pooled learning of the group dominant culture correct answersThe most powerful, widespread, or influential culture within a social or political entity in which multiple cultures are present subculture correct answersa subset of a culture; may be oppositional or counter-cultural oppositional culture correct answersa subculture that goes directly against the dominant culture socialization correct answersthe process by which people develop a "social self" with beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors; how an individual comes to understand society relative to the self and circumstances; happens through the family, workplace, peers, education, as well as through other social interaction values correct answersgeneral, abstract ideas about right and wrong, good and bad, desirable and undesirable