FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY VOCAB

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Question 1: Embodied

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physically present and detectable in the body itself

Question 2: Sociological sympathy

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the skill of understanding others as they understand themselves

Question 3: Anomie

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widespread normlessness or a weakening of or alienation from social rules

Question 4: Culture-as-rationale thesis

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the idea that we're socialized to know a set of culturally specific arguments with which we can justify why we feel something is right and wrong

Question 5: Norms

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shared expectations for behaviors

Question 6: Research questions

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queries about the world that can be answered empirically

Question 7: Sociological research methods

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scientific strategies for collecting empirical data about social facts

Question 8: Mass media

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mediated communication intended to reach not just one or a handful of people but many

Question 9: Values

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notions as to what's right and wrong

Question 10: Policies

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rules that are made and enforced by organization

Question 11: Homophily

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our tendency to connect to others who are similar to us

Question 12: Culture-as-value thesis

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the idea that we're socialized into culturally specific moralities that guide our feelings about right and wrong

Question 13: Primary deviance

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the instance of deviance that first attracts a deviant label

Question 14: Culture

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differences in groups shared ideas, as well as the objects, practices and bodies that reflect those ideas

Question 15: Social sanctions

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reactions by others aimed at promoting conformity

Question 16: Strain theory

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the idea that deviance is caused by a tension between widely valued goals and people's ability to attain them

Question 17: Social inequalities

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a condition in which wealth, power, and prestige are most readily available to people with privileged social identities

Question 18: Secondary deviance

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further instance of deviance prompted by the receipts of the deviant label

Question 19: Social Facts

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Products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to any individual (Emile Durkheim)

Question 20: Media socialization

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the process of learning how to be culturally competent through our exposure to media

Question 21: Impression management

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efforts to control how we're preceived by others

Question 22: Labeling theory

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a theory about how labels that are applied to us influence our behavior

Question 23: Laws

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rules that are made and enforced by cities, states or federal governments

Question 24: Subcultures

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subgroups within societies that have distinct cultural ideas, objects, practices and bodies

Question 25: Social disorganization theory

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the idea that deviance is more common in dysfunctional neighborhoods

Question 26: Data

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Systematically collected sets of empirical observations

Question 27: Social media

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social networks mediated by the internet

Question 28: Symbolic interaction

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the theory that social interaction depends on the social construction of reality