Sociology Final Exam Questions And Answers Graded A+ 2024.
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Sociological Perspective - Answer Seeing the general in the particular. Sociologists look for general patterns in particular people. Although every individual is unique, society shapes the lives of people in various categories differently.
Global Perspective - Answer The study of the large...
Sociology Final Exam Questions And Answers Graded A+ 2024.
Sociological Perspective - Answer Seeing the general in the particular. Sociologists look for general patterns in particular people. Although every individual is unique, society shapes the lives of people in various categories differently.
Global Perspective - Answer The study of the larger world and our society's place within it.
Sociology: The beginning - Answer Driving forces led to its development:
-industrialization
-urbanization
-immigration
Structural Functional Theory - Answer -views society as a system of interdependent and interrelated parts (body) -works together to promote solidarity and stability
Social Conflict Theory - Answer Conflict arises out of inequality between the owners and the workers (the haves ans haves not)- present day looking at advantaged over disadvantaged. Out of conflict comes change.
Symbolic Interactionist Theory - Answer view meaning as arising through the process of social interaction; asct towards thimgs based on meaning you have for it. Micro-level empahsis.
Culture - Answer the ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a
people's way of life
Nonmaterial Culture - Answer the ideas created by members of society
ex) Languages, beliefs, values, norms. attitudes Material Culture - Answer the physical things created by members of society
ex) Art, architecture, tv, clothing, consumer goods, technology
Culture shock - Answer Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life
The elements of culture - Answer Symbols, languages, values and beliefs
Symbols - Answer anything to which members of a culture assign meaning.
Languages - Answer a complex system of symbols with meanings that people use to communicate and transmit culture
values - Answer shared ideas about what is socially desirable or culturally defined standards
beliefs - Answer specific ideas that people hold to be true
norms - Answer rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
Subculture - Answer cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population ex) teens, cliques
High Culture vs Popular Culture - Answer -cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite
vs
-cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population
Multiculturalism - Answer A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S and therefore promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions
Ethnocentrism vs Cultural relativism - Answer -the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
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