Sociology 1

Who studied habitus, field and capital?

The classification of people who share a common cultural, linguistic or ancestral heritage

Who are the three functionalists?

Symbolic interactionism focuses on how people interact in their every day lives with their societys symbols

Poverty so severe that one lacks resources to survive

Mass society refers to social system in which elites one readily open to influence by non elites

When a person rejects culturally and society

Ability to change social classes

Who believes root of society is the symbols that teach us to understand the world?

Refers to in which a society tries to prevent and sanction behaviour that violates norms

Conflict theory studies issues such as ethnicity, gender, social class etc and is a macro orientation

Violation of norms that a society agrees upon

Large crowd of people - often thought of as disorderly or uncontrollable

Comte felt that sociology should strive to discover social laws and proposed we should study social statics

A collection of people temporarily doing something while in a proximity of one another

All social structures from day2day interactions with friends to complex cultural traditions work to keep society running

Raewyn Connell focused on the structure and internal complexity of the ruling class

Conflict views society as a struggle for scarce resources

Emile Durkheim suggested solidarity is a vital component that hold society together

Who are the three of the four symbolic interactionists?

Who believed that human beings behave towards things on the basis of the meanings they ascribe to those things?

A label is attached to a certain behaviour when a group with a powerful social status labels it deviant

Disturbance created by a large number of people

A group of people within a society who possesses the same socioeconomic status "upper middle, working"

What is sociological imagination?

Spencer’s study was informed by Charles Darwins theory of natural selection

Theoretical framework that focuses on how people interact with others in their everyday lives

What encourages contagion?

The study of human behaviour and social interaction to understand how societies are organised, develop and change

Integration of individuals into a dominant culture

This identity we take out into the world and use to interact with other identities to create society

Type of collective behaviour characterised by maladaptive, fruitless responses to a serious threat

Temporary enthusiasm for an innovation e.g. hula hoops, streaking, lime scooters

Who analysed the effects of capitalism (an ecological system in which private individuals own business & control economy

Symbolic interactionism is a macro orientation

Initial deviant act itself

Discrediting attribute or mark of disgrace that leads others to see us as untrustworthy, "tainted", or incompetent

Theoretical framework that defines society as a system of interrelated parts

Co-existence to varying degrees, of two originally distinct cultures

Connell focused on the impact of class on ideology, culture and consciousness

Serious consequences (price), obsessive enthusiasm of a relatively small group of people

Violation of norms that have been written into laws

The meaning of such things are derived from or arises out of the social interaction one has with others & society

Occurs when an individual changes social standin, especially in workforce

Refers to the change the family member make from one social class to the next through generations

Socially constructed divisions of people based on certain physical characteristics

What major research methods do sociologists use to conduct research and develop knowledge about a particular topic?

Who are the three conflict theorists?

State of poverty that occurs when we compare ourselves to those around us

Great, through brief, enthusiasm among relatively large number of people for s particular innovation

Who analysed class relations?

Auguste Comte wished to understand society to improve it for all

Who was the founder of sociology?

Herbert-Mead believes we use symbols to develop a sense of self or identity

What is sociology? ( choose 2 )

Focuses on how various social institutions interpret and process crimeans criminal activity

Who viewed society as a biological organism that can evolve, thrive or die?

Bourdieu argues that power is linked to various forms of capital

Karl Marx believes capitalism corrupted nature and wished to understand society to improve it for all

Seek to change thoughts and actions of all society in a radical fashion. - aim to complete restructure society

Psychological reorientation that occurs when the system catches a person and labels him/her

What kind of society do we live in according to the conflict view?

Who developed theory called dramaturgy?

SI focuses on how communication influences the ways peoples interactions with each other create the social world we live

Who suggested that human action is related to the labels attached to it?

Functionalism suggest that a society’s values and norms provide the foundation for the rules and laws it creates

The orderly ranking of individuals based on some objective criteria, usually wealth, power or prestige

Social structure in which men are considered to have monopoly on power and woman expected to submit

Functionalism views society as a system of interested parts and according to functionalists society is relatively stable

Bourdieu believed power could not be reduced simply to a question of class

Goffman theory of interacting in which life is like acting. Compare daily interactions to gestures of actors on stage

Activities that support or protest social issues organised by nongovernmental organisations

Relatively unorganised and unpredictable behaviour - behaviour less regulated by traditional norms

Who further developed the theory of functionalism?

Who is considered one of the three key contributors to the development of sociological thought?

These norms regulate the relationships between social institutions

Building blocks of society start with our hearts

Two positives for conflict is wealth and power

Theoretical framework that views society as being in a constant struggle over scarce resources

Theory argues with industrialisation and subsequent social changes, people have become isolated and alienated

Spreading of certain emotion and action from one crowd member to another