Religion
A system of beliefs, values, and practices concerning what a person holds to be sacred or spiritually significant.
What is Religion?
The type of nonacademic knowledge that people learn through informal learning and cultural transmission.
What is Hidden Curriculum?
A form of government that provides all citizens with an equal voice or vote in determining state policy.
What is Democracy?
Feelings of worry and fearfulness that last for months at a time.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
The collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms, beliefs, or values.
What are Social Movements?
Workers being replaced by technology.
What is Automation?
The belief in no deities.
What is Atheism?
A formalized sorting system that places students on "tracks" (advanced, low achievers) that perpetuate inequalities.
What is Tracking?
The ability to exercise one's will over others.
What is Power?
The physical limitations a less-able person faces.
What is impairment?
A call to action.
What is Motivational Framing?
A process where people exchange one form of goods or services for another.
What is Bartering?
Religious groups that are small, secretive, and highly controlling of members and have a charismatic leader.
What is a cult?
The emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that a person has a certain skill, has attained a certain level of education, or has met certain job qualifications.
What is Credentialism?
A small group of powerful people who control much of society.
Who are the Power Elite?
The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them.
What is Sick Role?
A large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time.
What is a Flash Mob?
An economic system in which there is private ownership (as opposed to state ownership) and where there is an impetus to produce profit, and thereby wealth.
What is Capitalism?
The religion that believes in the divinity of nonhuman beings, like animals, plant, and objects of the natural world.
What is Animism?
An act that requires states to test students in prescribed grades, with the results of those test determining eligibility to receive federal funding.
What is No Child Left Behind Act?
A means of studying a nations or group's underlying social norms or values as evidenced through its political structure and practices.
What is Politics?
A system that guarantees healthcare coverage for everyone.
What is Universal Healthcare?
"Not In My Back Yard," the tendency of people to protest poor environmental practices when those practices will affect them directly.
What is NIMBY?
The social institution through which a society's resources (goods and services) are managed.
What is Economy?
Which of the main theoretical perspectives would approach religion from the micro-level, studying how religion impacts an individual's sense of support and well-being.
What is Symbolic Interaction?
The use of education to improve one's social standing.
What is Social Placement?
Power that people accept because it comes from a source that is perceived as legitimate.
What is Authority?
A reduction in one's ability to perform everyday tasks; the World Health Organization notes that this is a social limitation.
What is Disability?
A relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity.
What is Mass?
An object that a society agrees to assign a value to so it can be exchanged as payment.
What is Money?
Behaviors or practices that are either required for or expected of the members of a particular group.
What are Religious Rituals?
The idea that the achievement level associated with an A today is notably lower than the achievement level associated with A-level work a few decades ago.
What is Grade Inflation?
The absence of any organized governement.
What is Anarchy?
The act of spoiling someone's identity; they are labeled as different, discriminated against, and sometimes even shunned due to an illness or disability.
What is Stigmatization?
The change in a society created through social movements as well as through external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations.
What is Social Change?
A practice where jobs are connected to an outside source, often in another country.
What is Outsourcing?