Groups and Organizations
Deviance
Criminal Justice
Stratification
Socioeconomic Class in the US
100
An example of a _____ is when students compare themselves to professionals in their field in order to determine where they stand in their chosen field (in terms of education, experience, pay, etc.)
What is a Reference Group?
100
Jake has been disrupting class for many weeks. In frustration, the teacher tells Jake that if he continues to disrupt class, he will make him sit in the corner. Jake continues to disrupt class. In response, the teacher makes Jake sit in the corner without a table, notebook, or pencil, and forces Jake to wear a jacket with the word "DUMMY" printed on it. The teacher has engaged in a social interaction that follows which theory of deviance?
What is Labeling Theory?
100
The ______ is defined as the overalpping interests of government and industry that use prison, policing, surveillance, and imprisonment as solutions to economic and social problems.
What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
100
This form of stratification has very little to no social mobility, and is based on holding a worker hostage based on the need to work off debt.
What is bonded labor?
100
Quintile is defined as 20% of a nation's population. Sociologists define _______ as a situation where one quintile of a nation's population owns more than two other quintiles combined.
What is inequality?
200
The defining element between a Dyad and a/an _____ is that the latter occurs with absolutely no coercion, and is mostly theoretical in nature.
What is a True Dyad?
200
This word is used in sociology to describe a negative perception of an individual that prevents them from claiming a "normal" identity.
What is Stigma?
200
A ____ is an opportunity for crime that is woven into the structure of everyday life. THey are also described as pre-existing paths to success not approved of by the broader culture. An example might be prostitution.
What is an Illegitimate Opportunity Structure?
200
The two definitions of _____ are:
1) The ranking of people in one society based on wealth, income, quality of life, etc.
2) The ranking of nations throughout the world based on national wealth, Gross Domestic Product, etc.
What is Social Stratification?
200
This is the number of social classes in the US, according to sociologists who study stratificaiton.
What is five or six?
300
This is a group structure in which secrets are possible, where the group will persist if one person leaves, and is usually formed with three people.
What is a Triad?
300
Social control is defined as a group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms. Give one example of social control within a local supermarket.
Answers can include: Layout of the store encourages movement in a specific way; cameras in multiple location; aisles layed out in straight lines; large mirrors; dummer cameras; barriers between payment lines; greeters; employees who help shoppers pick a cashier.
300
The majority of all crimes in the US are _______, meaning illegal activity that does not result in injury to any person other than the person involved in the
What is Victimless Crimes?
300
In this form of stratificaiton, people are born into levels that they occupy their whole life, with no opportunity for movement to a higher or lower level. In the South Asian version of this system, the lowest group exists outside of the hierarchy.
What is the Caste System?
300
_____ are things that a person owns that increase or decrease in value over time. These are different for the socioeconomic upper, middle, and lower classes. (Include an example of this from the Upper class and the Lower class.)
What are Assets? (Professor will decide on your comparison)
400
Jane and Ash have decided to join a club of video game fans on campus. The original group had three people, meaning there were 3 social connections. Once Jane and Ash joined, the group expanded to five people, creating _____ possible social connections. This illustrates that as groups increase in size, the number of social connections increases as well.
What are 10 connections?
400
_____ are the formal and informal means that societies use to enforce their social norms. Positive ones usually involve little recognition, while negative ones involve formal or informal corrective action.
What are Sanctions?
400
Harvey is a judge. In the course of his judgeship, he has come up with a way to enrich himself by sentancing juveniles to prison for minor offenses, such as talking back to teachers or getting into arguments with the principal. Eventually Harvey is convicted of ______ crime.
What is White Collar crime?
400
______ is characterized by the ability to move between social classes, either up or down. When this happens between generations, this is called ________.
What is Social Mobility and Intergenerational Mobility?
400
Sociologists of stratificaiton use the _____ shape to describe the current socioeconomic status of the nation. This is because there is a narrowing effect as you move up the socioeconomic ladder, making social mobility upwards more difficult than in past generations.
What is a Teardrop?
500
While an example of a ______ could be a school club, an example of a _______ would be your closest friends and family, who you see on a daily basis.
What is a Secondary Group and a Primary Group?
500
In response to her teacher calling her an "ignorant fool" for failing an exam, Maria looks at her instructor and says, "Well, if you would have been a better teacher, maybe I would have gotten a better grade." This is an example of what Sociologists call __________.
What is a Technique of Nuetralization? (Condemning the Condemner)
500
In this case, an affluent young adult was convicted of killing four people while drivin under the influence of alcohol. His lawyers argued that his affluence made him unaware of the consequences of drunk driving. After being sentenced to ten years of probation and psychiatric care, his parents helped him flee to Mexico. He was apprehended and returned to the US, where he was sentanced to two years in prison.
What is the Affluenza/Ethan Couch case?
500
Decribe the situation with Brick Kiln Laborers in Pakistan. What form of social stratificaiton does this qualify as and why?
What is Bonded Labor? (See video on Brick Kiln laborors in Lahore, Pakistan)
500
Name one statistic of the video on US inequality.
* The upper classes own 50% of the nation's investments, but the lower and middle class own only 0.5%.
* The nation's richest make more money in one hour than it takes their average employee to make in a month.
*Earlier in US history, the US's richest made 9 times what the average worker makes, and now make 24 times what the average worker makes.
* The poor and middle classes own only 7% of the nation's wealth between them.
* (Professor will determine other answers.)