The physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction.
What is puberty?
100
This consists of all individuals age 16 and older who are employed in paid positions or who are seeking paid employment.
What is the labor force?
100
Rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms.
What is a sanction?
100
Offenses committed by people of high social status in the course of their professional lives.
What is a white collar crimes?
100
The unequal sharing of scare resources and social rewards.
What is social inequality?
200
The meeting of people as a romantic engagement, and is most commonly found in societies that allow individuals to choose their own marriage partners.
What is dating?
200
The situation that occurs when a person does not have a job but is actively seeking employment.
What is unemployment?
200
A reward or punishment given by a formal organization or regulatory agency.
What is a formal sanction?
200
A large-scale organization of professional criminals that controls some vice or legitimate business through violence or the threat of violence.
What is crime syndicate?
200
One of two types of stratification systems in which resources and social rewards are distributed on the basis of ascribe status.
What is a caste system?
300
This could cause early pregnancies, dropping out of school at an early age, and lower income levels for the teenage parents.
What is early teenage sexual activity?
300
The scientific study of the processes and phenomena of aging.
What is gerontology?
300
A mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society.
What is a stigma?
300
Which of the following is a limitation on crime statistics?
a. not all complaints make it to official stats of formal reports
b. not all crime reported (family or friends)
c. only file formal reports on serious crime
d. All of the above
What is d all of the above?
300
Grouping of people with similar levels of wealth, power and prestige such as middle, upper, lower....
What is a social class?
400
Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital herpes, and AIDS are all examples of these.
What are sexually transmitted diseases [STDs]?
400
An organic condition that results in the progressive deterioration of brain cells suffered by old age.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
400
The theory that views deviance as a natural occurrence and is interested in why people conform rather than the causes of deviance.
What is control theory?
400
Police, courts, juvenile-justice system, and _______ are the four parts of the criminal justice system.
What is corrections?
400
A method in which individuals in a community are asked to rank other community members based on what they know of their characters and lifestyles.
What is the reputational method?
500
Any substance that changes mood, behavior or consciousness.
What is a drug?
500
The shift from being an independent adult to being reliant on others for physical or financial assistance.
What is dependency?
500
This theory says that deviance is a natural part of society and that people are driven to deviance under the pressure of not meeting the goals of society.
What is structural strain theory?
500
All of the following are functions of corrections EXCEPT
a. Social protection
b. Rehabilitation
c. Retribution
d. Recidivism
What is d recidivism?
500
Movement between social classes or strata, such as from poor to middle class.