SOC 3310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Thai Baht

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3310
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Organizations oriented to political goals: refers to a system"s need to create and achieve goals. Latency: the problem of creating, preserving and transmitting the systems distinctive culture and values, family and school, latency is the process of socialization. Maintenance organization- educational systems: pattern maintenance, refers to the need of a system to provide and renew the motivation of individuals and the patterns of culture that motivate people. Integration: the problem of maintaining solidarity or coordination among subunits of the system, religion and legal system. Integrative organizations, courts political parties for example: refers to the need of a system to coordinate the interrelationships among its component parts, parsons links the four functional imperatives to four action systems. The behavioral organism performs the adaptation function, while the personality system performs the function of goal-attainment. Inadequate socialization: failure to internalize social rules, defying norm-givers, ex. Inappropriate socialization: subcultural values: deviate from societies core values.