This status comes to a person through their own efforts.
What is achieved status?
100
The media's 3 functions identified in your text are to confer status, promote consumption and _________.
What is to entertain?
100
This group is set apart from others because of national origin or distinctive cultural pattern.
What is an ethnic group?
100
A negative attitude toward an entire category of people often a racial or ethnic minority.
What is prejudice?
100
The willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal goods and services.
What is victimless crime.
200
Sally's status as a "parent" takes precedence over her status as a bank employee. The parent status is called this.
What is a master status?
200
Gate-keeping, where a relatively small number of people control what eventually gets to the audience, is identified through this sociological perspective.
What is the conflict perspective?
200
An unreliable generalization about all members of a group.
What is a stereotype?
200
A criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias against a race, religion, ethnic group, national origin, or sexual orientation.
What is a hate crime?
200
The work of a group that regulates relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities.
What is organized crime?
300
When you have incompatible expectations that arise from two or more social positions it is called this.
What is role conflict?
300
Examples of this include magazines, movies, TV, the internet, books, and radio.
What is the mass media?
300
The use of the principle of racial neutrality to defend a racially unequal status quo.
What is color blind racism?
300
Rights or immunizes granted to people as a particular benefit or favor because they are white.
What is white priviledge?
300
Examples of this type of crime are tax evasion, embezzlement and misrepresentation in advertising.
What is white collar crime?
400
This principle describes how even a democratic government will eventually develop into a bureaucracy ruled by a few.
What is the iron law of oligarchy.?
400
This occurs when the audience is overwhelmed with coverage of events.
What is the "narcotizing effect"?
400
The concept that states that interracial contact between people of color of equal status will reduce prejudice.
What is the contact hypothesis?
400
This population was sent to evacuation camps in WW II simply because of their race.
What is Japanese Americans.
400
This act requires timely warnings of crime to students on campuses.
What is the Clery Act of 1990?
500
Albert Einstein found a job when his classmate's father put him in touch with his future employer. This is an example of what?
What is a social network?
500
Cultural beliefs and practices that maintain powerful social, political, and economic interests.
What is the dominant ideology?
500
The process through which a person forsakes his cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
What is assimilation?
500
Laws passed in Southern States to enforce segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
This theory reminds us that is it the response to an act, not the act itself, that determines deviance.