Memory U1- Sociology vocabularyVersión en línea sociology vocabulary por Jessica Mariella Calderón Méndez A framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability The systematic study of human society Sociological perspective People who live in a defined territory and share a way of life Vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and wider society, is the ability to look at something with fresh critical eyes Describes how we resemble actors on a stage as we play our various roles Manifest function Social dysfunction Macro-level orientation Positivism Any relatively stable pattern of social behavior Seeing the general in the particular Latent function Sociological imagination A close-up focus on social interaction in specific situations Society Principle that guide relationships between people and groups in the larger society and how they interact with one another A scientific approach to knowledge based on positive facts as opposed to mere speculations Sociological integration Theory Social interaction is guided by what each person stands to gain or lose from the interaction A framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change Social conflict approach Is a statement of why specific facts are related The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern A broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole Social exchange analysis The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern Any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society Micro-level orientation Symbolic-interaction approach Social function The consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society as a whole Social structure A framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals Sociology Dramaturgical analysis Structural functional approach Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members Multiculturalism Specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be true Counterculture Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society Norms for routine or casual interaction A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions The ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people’s way of life Beliefs Culture shock Culture integration The dominance of European cultural patterns Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance Norm Culture Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population Folkway Ethnocentrism Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life Subculture Language Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite The ideas created by members of a society The physical things created by members of a society Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living Material culture Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture Afrocentrism The close relationships among various elements of a cultural system Popular culture Emphasizing and promoting african cultural patterns High culture The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture Nonmaterial culture Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population Symbols Values Eurocentrism More A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another