SOCIOL 1 : chapter4.pdf
13 Nov 2014
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During which society"s demands become part of the individual, acting to control her or his behavior. A universal tendency to deprecate the ways of people from other societies as wrong, old- fashioned, inefficient, or immoral and to think the ways of one"s own group as superior. Refers to knowledge of how to make and use things. The knowledge about how to establish, maintain, and operate the technical aspects of social organization. A subdiscipline in sociology that is the scientific study of the commonplace activities of daily life. Race, age, or other statuses over which the individual has no control. The process of people learning how to define reality form other people in interaction and by learning the culture. Customs of a society should not be evaluated by our standards, but by theirs. The spread of one society"s cultural characteristics to another. When plagues, viruses, crime, etc spread across the globe and national boundaries and traditional institutions are becoming increasingly obsolete.
