Social Class
What is the unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society called?
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social inequality
What are shared beliefs about what a group considers worthwhile or desirable; they guide the creation of norms.
Values
What is the ongoing discussion of the respective roles of genetics and socialization in determining individual behaviors and traits?
Nature vs. Nurture debate
What is a collection of people who share some attribute, identify with one another, and interact with each other?
Groups
Which theory aligns with unequal distribution of punishments?
Conflict Theory
What is the division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy called?
social stratification
What can be either formal, such as a law or the rules for playing soccer, or informal not written down and unspoken.
Norms
What is the process of learning and internalizing the values, beliefs, and norms of our social group?
socialization
What is a temporary gathering of people in a public place?
Crowd
What is any physical or social attribute that devalues a person or group’s identity, and which may exclude those who are devalued from normal social interaction?
Stigma
a form of social
What is the stratification in which status is determined by one’s family history and background and cannot be changed called?
Caste system
What is a norm that carries moral significance, is closely related to the core values of a group, and often involves severe repercussions for violators.
More
Who developed 'the looking glass self' and believed that the sense of self depends on seeing oneself reflected in interactions with others?
Charles Cooley
What is the phenomenon that describes -- as more individuals are aded to a task, each individual contributes a little less. It is a source of inefficiency when working in teams.
social loafing
What is it called when stigmatized individuals behave as though they are part of the mainstream?
passing
What is the concept that describes how different categories of inequality like class, race, & gender may overlap?
intersectionality
What helps to establish social control, the formal and informal mechanisms used to increase conformity to values and norms and thus increase social cohesion.
Sanctions
Who believed that the self develops play in three stages: the preparatory stage, the play stage (taking the role of the significant other), and the game stage?
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George Herbert Mead
What is a collection of people who share a physical location but do not have lasting social relations?
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aggregate
What is it called when someone violates the values and norms of a group?
deviance
What concept describes the use of law enforcement to control the homeless and remove them from the view of society? .
invisibility of poverty
What is a group within society that openly rejects, and may actively oppose, society’s values and norms?
Counterculture
What process, developed by Erving Goffman, controls the impressions others have of us? (Often used in sales)
Impression Management
What type of leader is task-oriented and less concerned with people’s feelings than with getting the job done?
Instrumental
What is the theory about stress created when people are aware of the goals of society but do not have the means to achieve them?
Structural strain theory