UCLA Sociology 1 Midterm

Ability to step outside personal experience and make links between it and larger forces of society

Patternings of relationships that shape how people act, access to resources, power-gender: men/women--> impact opportunities-race--> experiences

Personal privatemicro level

On a larger, societal scalemacro level

1. social action- meaningful action that is influenced by people's understandings of the situations that confront them and the expectations of the consequences of their actions2. social structure-patternings of relationships that shape how people act, access to resources, power-gender: men/women--> impact opportunities-race--> experiences3. functional integration- the interdependence of the parts of a social system in a society4. power- being in a position where you can benefit from others5. culture- shared norms/values/beliefs in a society to interpret/understand reality-two products: material and nonmaterial

Knowledge one obtains through personal experience over the years

A group of social positions that are linked by social relations that perform a social role

Instilling the norms, values, expectations, and beliefs of a culture into a person

The way in which a person defines themselves through the groups they associate with or dissociate from

Accepted rules/behaviors

Moral beliefs that are deeply rooted in a society

Small scale; looking very closely at interactions

Large scale; looking at interactions at the level of society itself

In between micro and macro

Set of relationships among a group of people linked together in various communications and dealings