Sociology Midterm

Enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two within society

The ability to operate independent of social constraints 'Pilot' "screw you guys I'm out"

order, rank, make visible, organize, label, and measure various aspects of the world, enabling it to be controlled more effectively

recurring patterns of behavior, repeated arrangement practices

Functions, strategies and devises that that function to eliminate or discourage undesirable behavior and to produce desirable behavior

Because social actors get used to social structures, they become unconscious of their presents, making them what?

people with some mixture of male and female characteristics in terms of their chromosomes, gonades, genitals,or hormones

through socialization we__ various forms of social control by becoming good students, law abiding citizens, and hard workers.

When we __ these standards, we originate a self that originates outside itself

Model of social control with three components, Distance observation, coercive force, internalization of the law

Organizational structures can undermine communication within the organization

Even though social structures are malleable, we often see them as ___

The Ice cream was causing Murder rates to rise

enables us to grasp history and biography in society

Distance Observation, Coercive Force, Internalization of the Law

Eliminating or restraining, encouraging (send a message or reminder), deviating (undesirable), Conforming (desirable)

ongoing thoughts with powerless people

Idea that there are only two sexes

Total number that people share a characteristic that a sociologist is interested in studying.

Part of population that represents a whole

Positions in social system that can be occupied by an individual

Concernes public, collect when values is felt to be threatened

Boycotts, sit ins, and things people do because of a social movement

Discribe people by a small group instead of a whole

Factors outside a social movement that influences it

Twitter, facebook, propaganda

Flight attendant cracks a beer and leaves his job

Informational loss of structural secrecy Example

Two blank question with diff answers (not a flash card)