Max Weber's was, “the ability of an individual or group to achieve their own goals or aims when others are trying to prevent them from realising them”
What is a definition for social power.
100
the type of sociology that deals with large-scale social phenomenon such as how national cultures may clash, or why stock-markets make sudden jumps when certain types of news is released to the public.
What is macro-sociology.
100
It is the study of and the means by which segments of the population are identified and kept at a particular social class level.
What is social stratification.
100
They became the new bourgeoisie in the movie Animal Farm.
Who are the pigs.
100
Considered the most important agent of socialization.
What is the family.
200
The perspective that focuses on how all parts of a society work together for the mutual benefit of all. Uses an "organic model" to describe how various social institutions work together.
What is Functionalism. (or, the Functionalist Perspective).
200
The experiment conducted first by a grade-school teacher to demonstrate racism. The idea came from teaching about Martin Luther King's assassination.
What is the Brown-Eyes/Blue-Eyes study?
200
The American ethnic subculture with the highest level of unemployment (consistently over the years).
Who are Native-Americans.
200
In the movie Crash, this type of consciousness described "seeing the world" through the eyes of an American and the eyes of an African-American (or some other ethnic minority).
What is double consciousness.
200
This occurred in Great Britain in 1918, two years before it happened the the United States.
What is women given the right to vote.
300
This is when members of the proletariat buy into the values and beliefs of the upper-class and accept their failure to succeed at their own fault rather than caused by the system of rules imposed on them by the upper-class.
What is false consciousness.
300
These types of research is often interested in opinions, values, or feelings. There is not "hard number" attached to the data. (Hint: the answer is not survey research).
What is qualitative research.
300
The number of social classes in ancient Roman society. Includes the classes that were considered citizens and also those classes that were not.
What is four.
300
In Zootopia, it is where the police expect the Fox to be guilty of some sly activity. (Hint: not racism).
What is "profiling."
300
G-Train.
What is the gang name George Hughlett, leader of the LMGs.
400
Feeling unconnected to others, norm-less, alone even when surrounded by other people. A term created by Emile Durkheim to explain why members some groups are more likely to commit suicide than members of other groups.
What is anomie.
400
This is the name of the study where Dr. Zimbardo took randomly selected college students and assigned them to be "prisoners" and "guards."
What is the Stanford Prison Study.
400
Prestige for working-class members often comes from this.
Appreciation of craftsmanship by other members of the working class (particularly people in the same field).
400
He is described in the movie Eyes on the Prize as a young boy from Chicago that didn't understand "how things were" in the south. And because of that, he was killed.
Who is Emmett Till.
400
Both are about 43% of the U.S. population
What percent of Americans are working-class. What percent are middle-class.
500
this is the name given to the phenomenon of how research subjects change their behavior when they know they are being studied (or watched).
What is the Hawthorn Effect.
500
This percent of Americans control (own) about one-third of the total wealth in this country.
What is the top 1 percent.
500
It was torn down in 1998 and because of this, is credited with spreading gang activity throughout Southeast Memphis.
What is the leveling of the LeMoyne Gardens (and three other) apartment "projects."
500
Created in 1997, the Memphis Police Dept (MPD) organized what force?