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Sociology 101 with Elfriede Wedam at Loyola University Chicago

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Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life

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Globalization

the process through which people's lives all around the world become increasingly interconnected--economically, politically, environmentally, and culturally.

Structural-Functionalist Perspective THEORY

that a society is a complex system composed of various parts, much like a living organism

Manifest Functions

the intended, obvious consequences of activities designed to help some part of the social system

Latent Functions

the unintended, sometimes unrecognized, consequences of actions that coincidentally help the system

Conflict Perspective THEORY

addresses the deficiencies of structural-functionalism by viewing the structure of society as a source of inequality, which benefits some groups at the expense of other groups

Feminist Perspective

focus on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life

Symbolic Interactionism THEORY

attempts to understand society and social structure through examination of the micro-level interactions of people as individuals, pairs, or groups

Symbol

something used to represent or stand for something else

Social Construction of Reality

concept based on the simple assumption that knowledge is a human creation

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, causes the expected event to occur and thus confirms the prophecy's own "accuracy"

Incorrigible Proposition

a belief that cannot be proved wrong and has become so much a part of common sense that one continues to believe it even in the face of contradictory evidence

Moral Entrepreneurs

certain groups that have moral concerns they passionately want translated into law

Empirical Research

operates on the assumption that answers to questions about human behavior can be ascertained through controlled, systematic observations in the real world

Probabilistic

capable of identifying only those forces that have a high likelihood, but not a certainty, of influencing human action

Qualitative Research

non numeric information that describes people, actions, or events in social life

Quantitative Research

numeric data--rely on precise statistical analysis

Counterculture

group that actively opposes the values and behavior patterns of the dominant culture

Subculture

values, behaviors, and artifacts of a group that distinguish its members from the largerculture

Institutionalized Norm

pattern of behavior within existing social institutions that is widely accepted in a society

Ethnocentrism

tendency to judge other cultures using one's own as a standard

Material Culture

artifacts of a society, which represent adaptations to the social and physical environment

Nonmaterial Culture

knowledge, beliefs, customs, values, morals, and symbols that are shared by members of a society and that distinguish the society from others