7.+Sociology+and+Vocab

= I.Sociology = = II.Sociology Terms =
 * Sociology and Fahrenheit 451 **
 * 1) ==== Study of social behavior and human groups ====
 * 2) ==== Focus on the influence and importance of social relationships upon: ====
 * 3) ==== People’s attitudes and behavior ====
 * 4) ==== How societies are established and change ====
 * 1) ==== Culture: Each culture has a unique character which shapes the values and behaviors of its members ====
 * 2) ==== Socialization: Process where people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture ====
 * ==== Occurs through human interaction ====
 * 1) ==== Ex: Identical twins separated at birth ====
 * 2) ==== Agents of Socialization: Many different social forces which influence our lives and alter our self-images ====
 * 3) Family
 * 4) Gender roles
 * 5) School
 * 6) Friends/Peer groups
 * 7) Mass media
 * 8) Workplace
 * 9) The State (government)

=== Below are sociology terms that we will be thinking about during our class and relating to our book, __Fahrenheit 451__. While you are reading the book, always keep these words in the back of your mind. ===


 * 1) ** Agent of socialization ** : Ways in which people learn to conform to their society’s norms, values, and roles.Significant individuals, groups, or institutions that provide structure situations in which socialization takes place.
 * 2) ** Alienation ** : The situation in which people lose their control over the social world they have created, with the result that they find themselves “alien” in the hostile social environment.
 * 3) **Automation**: The replacement of workers by nonhuman means of production.
 * 4) ** Bystander apathy ** : The reluctance of people to “get involved” in an apparent emergency affecting a stranger in public.
 * 5) ** Community ** : A social group with a common territorial base and a sense of shared interests and “belonging.”
 * 6) ** Counterculter: **A subculture whose values, norms, and lifestyles are fundamentally at odds with the dominant culture.
 * 7) ** Deviance ** : Behavior that violates significant social norms and its disapproved by large numbers of people as a result.
 * 8) **Discovery**: A new perception of an aspect of reality that already exists.
 * 9) ** Mass ** : A large number of people who are all oriented toward a set of shared symbols or social objects.A collection of people who are concerned with the same phenomenon without being in one another’s presence.
 * 10) ** Mass Media: ** The various forms of communication that reach a large audience without any personal contact between the senders and the receivers: newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, movies, video, music, and Internet.
 * 11) **Norms**: Rules of behavior that define acceptable conduct within a culture.
 * 12) ** Propaganda: ** Information or viewpoints that are presented with the deliberate intention of persuading the audience to adopt a particular opinion.
 * 13) **Scapegoating:** Placing the blame for one’s troubles on some relatively powerless individual or group.
 * 14) ** Self: ** The individual’s conscious experience of a distinct personal identity that is separate from all other people and things. An organization of ideas and perceptions about who and what kind of person one is.
 * 15) **Social Change**: The alteration in patterns of culture, social structure, and social behavior over time.
 * 16) **Social Control:** A set of means of ensuring that people generally behave in expected and approved ways.
 * 17) ** Social Interaction ** : The process by which people act toward or respond to other people.
 * 18) **Symbol:** Anything that can meaningfully represent something else.
 * 19) ** Values ** : Socially shared ideas about what is good, right and desirable.

** Vocabulary Terms ** ** Assignment: Create a Mini Vocabulary Poster ** **Instructions**:

1. Understand the meaning of your assigned vocabulary word 2. Find one picture, graphic or image that you think best describes or represents this word 3. Type the definition for the term in your __OWN__ words. (You should create a new definition for the word.) 4. Combine your picture and your definition on a 8 x 11 sheet of paper (using your Google Doc account) 5. Decorate your mini poster however you want.