Sociology Fundamentals and Social Norms

An economic system in which government owns productive property and controls economic production in the name of the people.

Social structures and institutions which are built on individual sin.

<p>The social behavior expected of people within a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positive and negative behaviors used to enforce a norm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to take a second look at the 'world taken for granted'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tensions and power struggles in a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variable that is influenced by another (independent) variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement about how two or more variables are related to each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The consistency with which a measure can be reproduced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The general agreement by the members of a society that a certain body of knowledge is true or valid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group's way of thinking or acting that is an alternative to or in opposition to the norms and values of the larger society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A society's way of life, consisting of beliefs, values, norms, and symbols.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attitude which supports beliefs that values and norms of one's culture are superior to those of another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The customary ways people do things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural rules that are essential for societal survival and have been codified into moral and civil laws.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Punishments used for violations of cultural rules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rewards used for compliance with cultural rules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea of an individual based on preconceived, standardized characteristics alleged to a whole category of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anything - object, gesture, word - that is given arbitrary meaning and about which members of a culture generally agree.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A portion of the population having distinctive norms, values, and traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shared ideas of things members of a culture think are good and desirable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A comprehensible body of beliefs about how the world is organized as represented in a culture's myths, religious ceremonies, social behavior, and value system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social position that is acquired because of one's ability to alter one's ascribed status.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social position that is acquired by persons at birth, according to their family background.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Efforts made by a group or organization that have the goal of self-perpetuation of the organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a group or organization functions in a manner that hinders the likelihood of accomplishing its original purpose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The original need or set of needs a group or organization is intended to address.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cluster of behavior norms or rules expected of a person occupying a particular social status or position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What results when two or more roles are contradictory or incompatible.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What often occurs when a role involves differing, inconsistent expectations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ordered, patterned ways in which persons conduct themselves in social situations.</p> Signup and view all the answers