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