Personal DictionaryBy: Tatiana Pinda

25 words per quarter ending with a poetry slam

Sociology (noun)[soh-see-ol-uh-jee]

1. Where you found it: I found the word in the book, You may ask yourself, “Sociology also tends more toward comparative case study whereas anthropology is more like the history in its focus on particular circumstances (36).”

2. Guess: i think its the study of socializing

3. Dictionary Definition: the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions,

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it shows two people interacting with one another and sociology is the study of human society and the way we interact with one another

Dubious (Adjective)[doo-bee-uh s]

1. Where you found it: I found this word when I was reading the article, Promoting Bad Statistic. I think it is important because its describing how someone is questioning a true fact “Anyone who questions a presumably true number must have dubious reasons for doing so.” (27)

2. Guess: I think that the word has to do with being skeptical about something

3. Dictionary Definition: doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt; unquestionable

4. Visualization: I chose a person thinking and being questionable which is the definition of dubious

Debunk (verb)[ dee-bun-k]1. I found the word while reading the article, Promoting Bad

Statistics, “ the press debunked this statistic in 1985, but only four years after missing children became a highly publicized issue.” (22)

2. I think this word might have to do with discrediting a source or idea

3. Dictionary Definition: To show that something (such as a belief or theory) is not true : to show the falseness of (a story, idea, statement,

4. I chose this image because the word debunked means to show something is not true. Poseidon is a greek mythological god and a myth is a false belief or idea

Globalization (noun)[gloh-buh-luh-zey-shuh n]1. Where you found it: I found this word when i was

reading the article, Global Culture, “optimistic hyperglobalizers agree with their pessimistic colleagues that cultural globalization creates more sameness, but they consider this outcome to be a good thing.” (54)

2. Guess: I am guessing that this word might have to do with something relating to the world

3. Dictionary Definition: a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because Globalization is about interacting with people of different cultures or nations and the visual shows people engaging with another around the “globe”

homogenizing(verb)[huh-moj-uh-nahyz, hoh-]

1. Where you found it: I found the word in the article, Global Culture, “It is one thing to acknowledge the existence of powerful homogenizing tendencies in the world, but it is quite another to assert that the cultural diversity existing on our planet is to vanish.” (54)

2. Guess: The greek root homo means same so i think homogenizing has someone to do with being the same

3. Dictionary Definition: to make uniform or similar.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because milk is uniform thats what homogenizing

Secular (Adjective)[sek-yuh-ler]

Include the following for each word.

1. Where you found it: I found the word in the book, You may ask yourself, “Comte claimed that a secular basis for morality did indeed exist- we could determine right and wrong without a reference to higher powers

2. Guess: From its context, I think it has to do with being logical.

3. Dictionary Definition:not pertaining to or connected with religion

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because the word secular means not connected or related to religion which the image shows religion being x out

Epoch (noun)[ep-uh-k]

1. Where you found it: I found this word while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “In the current epoch, that fault line divided society into a small number of capitalists and large number of workers whose interests were opposed.” (24)

2. Guess: I’m guessing from the context and the previous sentences it has something to do with historical time

3. Dictionary Definition: a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because a timeline usually a representation of events that have occurred in history or a person’s life

Paradigm (noun)[par-uh-dahym]

1. Where you found it: I found the word while reading, You may ask yourself, “If there was a theoretical paradigm that undergirded much of the research of the Chicago School, it would be the theory of the social self.” (26)

2. Guess: I think the word in the sentence means an example of something

3. Dictionary Definition:a model or pattern for something that may be copied

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because its an example of an atom and the definition of a paradigm is a model of something

Precursor(noun)[pri-kur-ser ]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “This was an important precursor to the notion of the social construction of reality.” (27)

2. Guess: Well pre- means before so i think it has something to do with coming before a thing

3. Dictionary Definition: Something that comes before something else and that often leads to or influences its development

4. Visualization: I chose this picture of ancestors because it is something or someone that comes before something else just like the precursor

Eschewed (verb)[es-chOO-d]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “A strain of thought that developed in the 1960s was symbolic interactionism, which eschewed big theories of society and instead focused on how face-to-face interaction create...(31)”

2. Guess: I think the word means to stay away from something

3. Dictionary Definition: deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because the person is abstaining from eating junk food and eshewed means to abstain from

Succinctly (Adjective)[suh k-singkt-lee]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “postmodernism can perhaps be summarized succinctly as the notion that these shared meaning have eroded (32).”

2. Guess: I think the word succinctly means shortly, since its talking about summarizing something

3. Dictionary Definition: expressed in few words; concise; terse.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because the dart its precisely in the middle and succinctly means concise.

Deploy (verb)[de-ploy]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “political scientists, deploy a variety of methods, ranging from historical case studies to abstract statistical models. (37)”

2. Guess: I think the word has something to do with setting up something

3. Dictionary Definition:to come into a position ready for use

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it represents something in position which is the definition of deploy

Flux (noun)[fluhks]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “we should keep in my mind that disciplinary boundaries are in a constant state of flux (37).”

2. Guess: i think it has to do with something constantly flucuating

3. Dictionary Definition: the state of constant change

4. Visualization: I chose this picture of because our lives our constantly changing and we may have plans but they’re not set in stone which is what flux is a state of constant change

Dichotomies (noun)[di·chot·o·my]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “another split exists between theorists and empiricists. These are false dichotomies, however, they merely act as shorthand for deeper intellectual divisions for which they are poor proxies (38).”

2. Guess: Di means two and in its context i think it means to split something

3. Dictionary Definition: a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture of the brain because dichotomies means a contrast between two things and the left and right side have very different functions although its just one thing.

empirical (adjective)[em·pir·i·cal]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “an inductive approach starts with empirical observations observations and then works to form a theory (45).”

2. Guess: something that has to do with observations

3. Dictionary Definition: based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because empirical means to verify something based on observation and the image shows to guys testing an experience

Milieux

1. Where you found it: I found the word while reading, The Sociological Imagination: the promise, “ their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood. in other, milleux, they move vicariously and remain spectators.”

2. Guess: i think the word means someones element

3. Dictionary Definition: a person's social environment.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it represents a person's social environment which is what milleux means

Feudal (noun)[fyood-l]

1. Where you found it: I found the word while reading, The Sociological Imagination: the promise, “when a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. “

2. Guess: I’m guessing the word has something to do with the middle ages

3. Dictionary Definition: absurdly outdated or old-fashioned.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because feudal means outdated or old fashioned which is what the image shows a man on a horse with the middle ages attire

Ambivalent (Adjective) [am-biv-uh-luh nt]

1. Where you found it: I found this word when I was reading the article, Leaving Home for College by David Karp and I thought it was important because the word was repeated about three to four times throughout the whole article, “Young people are ambivalent regarding independence; it is hard to break away” (60).

2. Guess: I would assume that from its context that it has to do with being unsure about something.

3. Dictionary Definition: having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because the face looks like its feeling uneasy about something.

Emulate (Verb)em-yuh-leyt

1. Where you found it: I found this word while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “from the ideal woman to the ideal form of government to the ideal citizen, which humanity ought to emulate.” (80)

2. Guess: within the context of the sentence, I believe it has to do with coping someone or something

3. Dictionary Definition: to try to equal or excel; imitate

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it shows a little girl imitating the older girl and it coincides with the definition of emulate which is to imitate.

Geocentric (adjective)[jee-oh-sen-trik]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “In a geocentric universe, humans living on earth stand at its center, and this idea corresponds to Christian notions that humans are the lords of the earth (83).”

2. Guess: I think the words means earth center because the word geo means earth, ic means pertaining to and center is the middle

3. Dictionary Definition: having or representing the earth as a center

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it represents the earth as the center which is what geocentric means

Anthropology (noun)[an-thruh-pol-uh-jee]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “the field of anthropology is split between physical anthropologists, and biologists but who study human relations similarly to what sociologist do (35).”

2. Guess: i think the word means the study of man since the greek root word of anthrop which comes from the word anthropos meaning man and logy is study of.

3. Dictionary Definition: the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because it shows the evolution of man and anthropology is the study of humankind

Manifestation[man-uh-fuh-stey-shuhn]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “statistical analysis is the most typical manifestation of this kind of research, but by no means the only one (39).”

2. Guess: i think the word means a demonstration of something

3. Dictionary Definition: an event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, especially a theory or an abstract idea

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because like the word manifestation the image shows or embodies something like art

Pervasiveness (Adjective)[per-vey-siv-nes]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “the pervasiveness of such images is harmful to women and girls in our society (66).”

2. Guess: i think the word in its context has to do with popularity of such images

3. Dictionary Definition: spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because in the reading it talked about how girls see other people in the media and how the pervasiveness (or popularity) of such images are harmful to women in our society

Socialization (noun)[soh-shuh-luh-zey-shuh n]

1. Where you found it: I found this while reading, You May Ask Yourself, “we call this process by which you learn how to become a functioning member of society socialization (117).”

2. Guess: i think it means learning to socialize with people

3. Dictionary Definition: a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.

4. Visualization: I chose this picture because our family is the first people that teach us about how we are to act in certain situation and about values