exam 2
General Education 130 with Niemier at University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
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symbolic interactionism
(steph going out) people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them, meaning are derived from social interaction, meaning are modified through interpretation, focus on micro level.
functional analysis
society as a unit with interrelated parts, structure-how parts of society fit together, focus on macro level, large scale patterns
functional vs dysfunctional
functional-help keep society together
dysfunctional-harm society
manifest function
intended positive consequences
latent function
unintended positive consequences
latent dysfunction
unintended negative consequences
conflict theory
society as groups competing for scarce resouces, origins in marx class conflict, modern conflict theory-struggle between those with authority and those without
ethics in research
openness with results, informed consent, protection of anonymity, controversy regarding misrepresenting themselves
humphreys research
lacked informed consent, misrepresentation of himself
ethnocentrism
judging other cultures by the standards of ones own culture , (yuck)
cultural relativism
each culture must be understood in terms of its own values and beliefs (no one culture is better than any other)
material culture
physical objects in the environment and their meaning
non material culture
groups way of thinking and doing beliefs, values, and other assumptions, patterns of behavior including language, gestures, etc.
cultural lens
culture taken for granted, own culture is normal and natural, culture is arbitrary
mirror neuron network
more active when american was gesturing
conclusions from mirror neuron network
culture influences our brains
american values
achievement and success, individualism, activity and work, efficiency and practicality, humanitarianism, freedom, democracy, equality, racism and group superiority
values collide?
source for social change, also source of resistance to change (freedom and equality vs. group superiority
subcultures
culture in a culture (politics-democrats and republicans)
stereotypes
THOUGHTS about a particular group
prejudice
FEELINGs about a particular group
discrimination
ACTIONS taken due to group membership
schema
frameworks for organizing, interpreting, and recalling information, natural process, ALLOW TO CREATE DESCRIPTION EVEN WITHOUT DIRECT EXPERIENCE
assimilation
that person is the only one different
accomodation
change views on that group
tokenism
success of few individuals is seen as evidence that discrimination no longer exists ex: obama
covert
cover you prejudice dont tell the world
overt
tell everyone in sight
modern racism
covert
caste
status determined by birth
estate
nobilty, clergy, primogeniture, and serfs
class
based on money or possessions
status inconsistency
mixture of high and low ranks
gilbert and kahl
capitalist, upper middle, lower middle, working, working poor, underclass
intergenerational mobility
change occurs between generations
upward social mobility
child goes to college and buys saturn dealership
downward social mobility
party to much and end up in poverty when had the world at your fingertips
theories of prejudice
fight for scarce resources, threatened
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