Religion
Family
Politics
Deviance and Crime
Population
100
Marx, Weber, and Durkheim all agreed that religion is
What is "declining as a significant social force in society"?
100
The ________ is a household unit; ________ includes family but extends more broadly beyond the household to include additional blood and marital ties.
What is "family" and "kinship"?
100
__________ is the term for the regular enactment of policies, decisions, and matters of state on the part of officials within a political institution.
What is "The Government"?
100
Both property and violent crime rates have _____________ since 1991.
What is "declined"?
100
__________ is a measure of the number of live-born children the average woman gives birth to.
What is "fertility"?
200
____________ sees religion as associated with major social changes, including the development of the modern capitalist economy
Who is "Max Weber"?
200
Robert is a doctor whose parents were upper middle class and white. He recently married Marianne, also a doctor, whose parents are also white and upper middle class. Robert’s and Marianne’s marriage can be described as:
What is endogamous?
200
_____________ refer to the right of every individual to enjoy a certain minimum standard of economic welfare and security.
What are "Social rights"?
200
According to sociologists, deviant behavior is behavior that violates _______________?
What is "widely held social norms"? (or just "social norms")
200
According to _________________ theory, explosive population growth occurs when birth rates decline more slowly than death rates as societies begin to industrialize.
What is "demographic transition"?
300
The Bellequins are a religious organization which formed by breaking away from Castellian church to return to the fundamental ideals that that church used to stand for. The group generally opposes and is trying to change the surrounding society. The Bellequins are a ___________.
What is a "sect"?
300
One way in which changes in marriage and family patterns may have contributed to growing household income inequality in the U.S. is because of widening __________ differences in marriages rates and marital stability.
What is "class"?
300
A unified group of people in the highest positions of government, business, and the military that runs the United States and exercises tremendous influence in the world is referred to by one theory of democracy as:
What is "the power elite"?
300
According to _____________ theory, an ______________ is someone who an individual who accepts the goals of society but pursues them with means that are violate social norms.
What is "functionalist" and "innovator"?
300
There are now more than _____________ billion people living on earth, ______________ million of which live in the United States.
What is "7" and "310"?
400
According to the _______________ approach religions can be understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers. Such competition, according to this approach, promotes religious belief.
What is "religious economy"?
400
_____________ theory suggests that the family as a social institution often helps reproduce gender inequalities found in the larger society.
What is "Feminist"?
400
The set of symbols and beliefs providing the sense of being part of a single political community is known as ___________.
What is "nationalism"?
400
An important idea of labeling theory, a symbolic interaction theory, is the recognition that some individuals or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others. This view, with its emphasis on the significance of power relations, is also closely associated with another theory of deviance, which is _____________ theory.
What is "conflict"?
400
The belief that population growth outstrips the expansion of food production leading to natural curbs on population growth such as famine and war is associated with ______________.
What is "Malthus" or "Malthusianism"?
500
The idea that religion is declining as a social force in society is associated with the term _____________.
What is "secularization"?
500
______________ theory argues that the family serves the needs of society as a whole and all of the members of the family.
What is "functionalist"?
500
Our clicker questions showed that voting choices tend to vary by race-ethnicity, class, and gender. This idea suggests support for the notion that patterns of social relations shape what people do, which is also core to our definitoin of _______________.
What is "sociology"?
500
Norm violations that are codified into law are known as:
What is "crimes"?
500
The main reason for the population explosion in many third world nations is _______________________________, associated with economic development and industrialization.
What is "a rapid drop in the crude death rate"?
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