Sociology Midterm

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- Independent first. Influences what becomes irotic during adulthood- depende...
- Two blank question with diff answers (not a flash card)
- Columbine shooting
- Informational loss of structural secrecy Example
- Action example
- Flight attendant cracks a beer and leaves his job
- Recourse mobilization
- Twitter, facebook, propaganda
- Political opportunities
- Factors outside a social movement that influences it
- Generalize
- Discribe people by a small group instead of a whole
- Extra Institutional Tactics
- Boycotts, sit ins, and things people do because of a social movement
- Issue
- Concernes public, collect when values is felt to be threatened
- Status
- Positions in social system that can be occupied by an individual
- Samples
- Part of population that represents a whole
- Population
- Total number that people share a characteristic that a sociologist is interested in studying.
- Taken for granted assumptions
- Idea that there are only two sexes
- Social movement
- ongoing thoughts with powerless people
- The four components of social control
- Eliminating or restraining, encouraging (send a message or reminder), deviating (undesirable), ...
- 3 components of Panopticon
- Distance Observation, Coercive Force, Internalization of the Law
- Sociological imagination
- enables us to grasp history and biography in society
- Correlation not causation
- The Ice cream was causing Murder rates to rise
- Natural, unchanging, or inevitable
- Even though social structures are malleable, we often see them as ___
- Information loss and structural secrecy
- Organizational structures can undermine communication within the organization
- Panopticon
- Model of social control with three components, Distance observation, coercive force, internaliz...
- Internalize
- When we __ these standards, we originate a self that originates outside itself
- Internalize
- through socialization we__ various forms of social control by becoming good students, law abidi...
- intersexual
- people with some mixture of male and female characteristics in terms of their chromosomes, gona...
- Seen but unnoticed
- Because social actors get used to social structures, they become unconscious of their presents,...
- Social control Mechanism
- Functions, strategies and devises that that function to eliminate or discourage undesirable beh...
- Social structure
- recurring patterns of behavior, repeated arrangement practices
- knowledge system
- order, rank, make visible, organize, label, and measure various aspects of the world, enabling ...
- Action
- The ability to operate independent of social constraints 'Pilot' "screw you guys I'm out"
- Sociological Imagination
- Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two within society
- Status
- A position in a social system that can be occupied by an individual

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