Sociology Basics
What is the study of human society and social behavior called?
What is sociology?
What do we call the shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group?
What is culture?
What is the first and most important agent of socialization?
What is the family?
What do we call two or more people who interact regularly and share a sense of identity?
What is a social group?
Who is known as the “father of sociology”?
Who is Auguste Comte?
What are rules or expectations that guide behavior in society?
What are norms?
What institution provides formal education and teaches social norms?
What is the school?
What is behavior that violates social norms called?
What is deviance?
What do sociologists call a group of people who share a culture and territory?
What is a society?
What is something that represents or stands for something else in a culture?
What is a symbol?
What institution is responsible for creating and enforcing laws?
What is the government?
What do we call a position a person holds in society, like student or parent?
What is a status?
What is a general explanation or idea that sociologists use to make sense of social behavior?
What is a theory?
What do we call the physical objects created by members of a society?
What is material culture?
What institution is focused on spiritual beliefs and moral guidance?
What is religion?
What is the behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status?
What is a role?
What is the process of learning how to behave in society called?
What is socialization?
What is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to others called?
What is ethnocentrism?
What institution organizes the production and distribution of goods and services?
What is the economy?
What do we call the process by which people influence each other’s behavior?
What is social interaction?