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Basic Concepts in Sociology

The document defines key sociological concepts including socialization, culture, social institutions, social structure, social stratification, social class, and references for further information. Socialization is the lifelong process of acquiring values and learning social norms. Culture comprises the shared behaviors, beliefs and symbols of a group. Social institutions are established patterns that organize social life like family and education. Social structure refers to the stable arrangement of institutions through which people interact. Social stratification involves ranking people based on factors like wealth and power. Social class is a group with similar income, jobs, education.

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Basic Concepts in Sociology

The document defines key sociological concepts including socialization, culture, social institutions, social structure, social stratification, social class, and references for further information. Socialization is the lifelong process of acquiring values and learning social norms. Culture comprises the shared behaviors, beliefs and symbols of a group. Social institutions are established patterns that organize social life like family and education. Social structure refers to the stable arrangement of institutions through which people interact. Social stratification involves ranking people based on factors like wealth and power. Social class is a group with similar income, jobs, education.

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Basin Concepts in Sociology Definition

1. Socialization the process beginning during childhood by


which individuals acquire the values, habits,
and attitudes of a society.

is the process through which people are


taught to be proficient members of a society.
It describes the ways that people come to
understand societal norms and expectations,
to accept society’s beliefs, and to be aware of
societal values.
2. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of
knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion,
notions of time, roles, spatial relations,
concepts of the universe, and material
objects and possessions acquired by a group
of people in the course of generations
through individual and group striving.

Culture can be defined as all the ways of life


including arts, beliefs and institutions of a
population that are passed down from
generation to generation. Culture has been
called "the way of life for an entire society."
As such, it includes codes of manners, dress,
language, religion, rituals, art. norms of
behavior, such as law and morality, and
systems of belief.
3. Social Institutions Social institutions are the established
patterns of beliefs, behaviors and
relationships that organize social life. Social
institutions exist to meet society’s
fundamental needs, such as providing
structure, guidance and order. Common
examples of social institutions include family,
religion, education and government.

A social institution is often defined as a


structure of society that intends to meet the
needs of society's members.
4. Social Structure Social structure, in sociology, the distinctive,
stable arrangement of institutions whereby
human beings in a society interact and live
together. Social structure is often treated
together with the concept of social change,
which deals with the forces that change the
social structure and the organization of
society.
The concept of social structure has been
defined in different ways by different thinkers
and sociologists. Herbert Spencer was the
first thinker who wrote about structure of a
society. He came up with biological analogies
(organic structure and evolution) to define the
social structure.
5. Social Stratification Sociologists use the term social stratification
to describe the system of social
standing. Social stratification refers to a
society’s categorization of its people into
rankings based on factors like wealth,
income, education, family background, and
power.

Social stratification refers to a ranking of


people or groups of people within a society.
But the term was defined by the earliest
sociologists as something more than the
almost universal inequalities that exist in all
but the least complex of societies. Social
stratification refers to a system with
predictable rules behind the ranking of
individuals and groups which theories of
social stratification are meant to uncover and
understand.
6. Social Class A social class is a group of people who are
similar in terms of their income, the kind of
job they do, and their level of education,
among other factors.

Social class, a group of people within a


society who possess the same
socioeconomic status. Besides being
important in social theory, the concept of
class as a collection of individuals sharing
similar economic circumstances has been
widely used in censuses and in studies of
social mobility.
7. Social Mobility

8. Socialization Agents

9. Deviance

10. Social Control


11. Gender

12. Race and Ethnicity

13. Social Change

14. Globalization

15. Social Network

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