SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Media Create, Survival Kit, Resocialization
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Sociology: systematic study of human behavior in social context (comte). Sociological perspective: examines link between social events and social relations (durkheim"s suicide theory). Sociological imagination: seeing connection between personal troubles and social structures (c. wright mills). Postindustrialism: an economy that no longer relates on heavy industry, technology driven. Globalization: formerly separately economies, states and cultures become tied. Culture: sum of socially transmitted ideas and practices that people create to overcome problem (gretzky). Ethnocentrism: judging another culture exclusively by the standards of one"s own. Cultural relativism: belief that all elements of all cultures should be respected equally. Bureaucracy: a large, impersonal organization composed of clearly de ned positions of hierarchy. Sanctions: used to ensure conformity to cultural guidelines (positive = rewards and negative = punishments). Rights revolution: process by which socially excluded groups have struggled to win equal rights (women). Countercultures: subversive subcultures that oppose dominant values and seek to replace them (hippies).
