Social Class Stratification
Social Structures, Social Interaction, & Social Groups
Deviance & Social Control
Socialization
Race & Ethnic Stratification
100
A concept that describes the way that individuals & groups are layered or ranked in society according to how many valued resources they possess
What is Social Stratification?
100
This type of status is assigned at birth and does not change during an individual's lifetime.
What is ascribed status?
100
This type of crime involves criminal offenses motivated by the offender's bias against a certain social group which is committed on based on religion, ethnicity or race, national origin, gender, and/or sexual orientation.
What is hate crimes?
100
This concept involves the lifelong process of learning to become a member of society, including learning the values and beliefs of the culture.
What is socialization?
100
This type of dominant/minority group relations involves the systematic effort by the dominant group to destroy a minority group.
What is genocide?
200
According to this theory, stratification systems provide each person with a position in society and motivate individuals to carry out their roles. As a result, each person contributes to society in some way.
What is Structural-Functional Theory?
200
This concept describes the difficulty that arises when the same social position imposes conflicting demands and expectations.
What is role strain?
200
This concept describes the likelihood that someone who has been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned will commit another crime and go back to jail.
What is recidivism?
200
This concept describes all people, organizations and institutions that enable us to learn the beliefs, values, and behaviors of our cultures.
What is agents of socialization?
200
This type of dominant/minority group relations involves the forced or chosen social and cultural merging of groups in which minority members may lose their original identity.
What is assimilation?
300
According to the three tenets of this theory, some positions in society are more highly valued than others, there needs to be incentives to motivate individuals to take on needed roles in society, and the unequal distribution of rewards in our society function as an incentive.
What is the Davis and Moore Thesis?
300
According to Durkheim's study of suicide, which showed the importance of groups for the individual, when bonds tying people to a group are too strong this type of suicide results.
What is altruistic suicide?
300
According to this theory, some people learn to conform and others learn to deviate depending on their associations with others who engage in crime and have criminal values. The possibility of becoming deviant depends on duration, intensity, priority, and frequency of time spent with deviant others.
What is Differential Association Theory?
300
Name an agent of socialization.
What is family, peer groups, education, religion, media, etc.?
300
This social policy was created in order to change the unequal distribution of resources in society and has been used to fight pervasive institutional racism but is often seen as being controversial.
What is Affirmative Action Legislation?
400
This concept describes the movement of individuals or groups form one position in a society's stratification system to another. This movement may be up or down.
What is social mobility?
400
This type of group involves close, personal relationships, a sense of belonging, loyalty to other members, and tends to have a small membership that last for a long time.
What is a primary group?
400
This type of crime is the violation of the law committed by a person or a group of individuals in the course of legitimate, respected occupational or financial activity.
What is occupational or white-collar crime?
400
According to Mead's parts of the self, this part is spontaneous, unpredictable, impulsive and acts without considering social consequences.
What is the "I"?
400
This type of minority reaction to prejudice, discrimination, and racism involves shunning all contact with the dominant group and may involve an active and organized attempt to leave the culture and live separately having little interaction with the dominant group.
What is avoidance?
500
In this system of stratification, the social position one is born into determines all aspects of life (your job, who you marry, where you live, etc.) and does not change. It is the most rigid ascribed status system.
What is the caste system?
500
According to Weber's ideal type characteristics of a bureaucracy, the following statement refers to which characteristic: Each position is under the supervision of a higher authority.
What is hierarchy of authority?
500
According to Merton's five ways of adapting to strain, when an individual uses illicit (illegal) means to reach approved goals, this type of adaptation to strain is occurring.
What is innovation?
500
According to Mead's parts of the self, this part is reflexive, formed through role-taking, it knows the rules of society, and attempts to control and direct the other part of the self into socially acceptable behavior.
What is the "me"?
500
Of the three policies associated with Affirmative Action Legislation, this policy is based on the belief that due to institutional discrimination, sometimes people must be treated differently in order to be treated fairly and has created the most controversy among opponents of affirmative action.
What is preference policies?
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