Intro to Soc
A status that one earns through effort, choice, or skill.
What is an achieved status?
The family, peer groups, media, and school.
What is an agent of socialization?
A family consisting only of parents and their children.
What is nuclear family?
The beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.
What are values?
A category of people who share observable physical characteristics.
What is race?
Sociology developed as a result of the...
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A developmental stage between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood.
What is adolescence?
The ability to exercise one's will over others.
What is power?
The physical objects created and used by members of a society.
What is material culture?
Unequal access to resources and opportunities based on social position.
What is social inequality?
The network of interrelated statuses and roles that guide human interaction.
What is social structure?
_______ refers to innate biological factors while _______ refers to environmental influences on development.
What is nature and nurture?
A family system where power and authority are held primarily by women.
What is matriarchy?
Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations.
What are norms?
Overly simplified generalizations about a specific group.
What are stereotypes?
A person's position in society.
What is a status?
A person’s sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values.
What is personality?
What are the four factors of production?
What is land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship?
Nonphysical creations including values, norms, and beliefs.
What is nonmaterial culture?
The division of society into categories, ranks, or classes.
What is social stratification?
Focusing on face-to-face interactions and small groups.
What is micro sociology?
The functionalist, conflict, and interactionist.
What are the theories of socialization?
The four technological innovations in mass media.
What is writing and Paper, printing press, newspapers, and computer?
Anything that represents something else, and has a shared meaning attached to it.
What is a symbol?
An invisible barrier that prevents women from advancing to top positions.
What is the glass ceiling?