Sociology test 2 example #19976

When a person judges another group by his or her own standards

judge another group by their own norms and cultural practices

physical objects that people have borrowed, discovered, or invented and to which they have attached meaning.

a wedding ring, books, tech, buildings, furniture, clothing

nonphysical creations A person cannot hold or see, values

the expectation that married people should be sexually exclusive with their spouses.

strain that people from one culture experience when they must reorient themselves to the ways of a new culture.

abstract cultural beliefs. general, shared concepts on what is good, right, worthwhile, and important with regard to conduct, appearance, and states of being.

how they are put into play. They are written and unwritten rules that specify behaviors appropriate and inappropriate to a particular social situation.

no smoking and emergency signs.

Experience of internalizing a cultures norms, values, and the like begins at birth and continues through life span

asserted that culture is a reflection of the means of production in a particular environment.

de facto censorship may occur because it becomes easier to suppress.

when someone gets upset and shops for happiness and fulfillment to be achieved through the acquisition of material possessions.

the ones sense of agency

how we believe others see us

imitation, play, games

interpreting how others think about us

individuals and groups who help shape our orientation to life, our self-concept, emotions, values, attitudes, and behaviors.

process of discarding values and behaviors unsuited to new circumstances and replacing them with new, more appropriate values and norms.

dating someone after divorce

military boot camps and prisons that control all the basic elements of peoples day-to-day lives.

An example would be a convent, military boot camps and prisons.

occupy -- a postition in a social structure.

enact -- behavior expected of people (a status in a relationship to another status)

aquired through some combination of personal choice, effort, and ability.

result from chance, little or no control

a top world tennis player.

so important to a person's social identitiy that it overshadows all other statuses that people occupies and shapes every aspect of life. Dominates all social interactions. over rules all other statuses

predicament in which conflicting expectations and contradictory are associated with a single role that someone is enacting.

a mom who cannot get adequate sleep, and spent quality time with her children.

predicament in which the expectations associated with two or more roles in a role set contradict one another.

how we are socialized to act out our femuinity and masculinity

meaning attached to social actions and symbols are social constructed and contextually situated

area where people take care to create an maintain the images and behavior an audience has come to expect.

the degree of intimacy people experience in these groups.

family

area out of an audience's sight where individuals can do things that would be on the front stage.

college class

majority that have greater power

minority with less power

known within a society as any social network that is defined by a common purpose and that has a boundary between its members and the rest of the social world. formal organizations have formal rules and governing structures

internal bodily sensations that we experience in relationships with other people

norms that specify appropriate ways to express social emotions

people borrow material and nonmaterial culture from other societies

they communicate info

when there is a breach in an established script, people generally work hard to repair the mistake so everyone can move forward