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Sociology: A-Down-To-Earth Approach CH. 1-4 (Alphabetized)

Alphabetized version of Ch. 1-4 vocabulary from the textbook Sociology: A Down-To-Earth Approach

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Sociological Perspective

Answer: understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context

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Society

Answer: people who share a culture and territory

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Social Location

Answer: the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society

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Sociology

Answer: the scientific study of society and human behavior

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Sociology

Answer: the scientific study of society and human behavior

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Culture

Answer: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next

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Material Culture

Answer: the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry

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Nonmaterial Culture

Answer: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"

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Nonmaterial Culture

Answer: a group\'s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called \"symbolic culture\"

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Culture Shock

Answer: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

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Social Environment

Answer: the entire human environment, including interaction with others

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Feral Children

Answer: children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans

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Socialization

Answer: the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group -- the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them

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Self

Answer: the unique human capacity of being able to ourselves \"from the outside\"; the views we internalize of how other see us

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Looking-Glass-Self

Answer: a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing how others\' see us

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Macrosociology

Answer: analysis of social life that focuses on broad features of society, such as social class and the relationships of groups to one another; usually used by functionalists and conflict theorists

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Microsociology

Answer: analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction; typically used by symbolic interactionists

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Social Interaction

Answer: what people do when they are in one another\'s presence; includes communications at a distance

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Social Structure

Answer: the framework of society that surrounds us; consists of the ways that people and groups are related to one another; this framework gives direction to and sets limits on our behavior

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Social Class

Answer: large numbers of people who have similar amounts of income and education and who work at jobs that roughly comparable in prestige

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