Review 1
As defined by C. Wright Mills, which of the following “enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society”?
sociological imagination
The lifelong process of learning and internalizing the norms of society, including how to behave and interact with others in various social settings, is called
socialization
An example of material culture is
clothing
When people in a society form social bonds and relate to each other on a daily basis, the society is said to exhibit
social cohesion.
What kind of group ceases to exist if even one member leaves the group?
dyad
Standing too close to a stranger while talking to them would be considered which type of deviance?
informal
Which of the following items does the developing child acquire first?
the self
When a prison offers educational opportunities, mental health treatment, and job training programs to inmates, in which response to deviance is it engaging?
rehabilitative
Harry is at the park with his kid, Xerxes, when he gets annoyed at another family nearby because they are cooking some kind of fragrant food with which he’s unfamiliar and speaking in a language he doesn’t understand. He thinks they’d be better off if they were eating his kind of food and speaking his language. Harry is engaging in
ethnocentrism
Although deviant behavior can be threatening and damaging, paradoxically it also
strengthens society by exercising mechanisms that preserve cohesion
[Blank] argued that other people provide us with a social mirror and that our interpretations of this mirror affect how we see ourselves.
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley would classify a close friendship group as a __________ group
primary
A crime such as burglary is also known as which type of deviance?
formal
Which of the following is defined as a complex group of interdependent positions that together perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time?
a social institution
Everything in our constructed environment, including technology, buildings, furniture, clothing, and books, is part of our
material culture
A classroom would not typically fall under Georg Simmel’s classification of a small group because, unlike a typical classroom, a small group
lacks formal arrangements or roles.
If a person judges another group by their own standards, they are being
ethnocentric
We can divide culture into two main categories. Of these, the one that includes values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors is known as
nonmaterial culture
The functionalist perspective argues that deviance
is necessary for a society’s survival.
A friendship bracelet is an example of __________, while the expectation that friends should be concerned with one another’s welfare is an example of __________.
material culture; nonmaterial culture