Family Terms
This family unit consists of two parents and their children living together in one household.
What is a nuclear family?
These are close, emotionally intimate groups like family and close friends.
What are primary groups?
This term refers to a system where resources and opportunities are distributed unevenly.
What is stratification?
Behavior that violates social norms is called this.
What is deviance?
Someone who critically evaluates media messages is called this.
What is an active consumer.
A marriage between individuals from the same social group is called this.
What is endogamy?
When someone has multiple roles with conflicting expectations, they are experiencing this.
What is role conflict?
This type of status is earned through effort, such as a college degree.
What is achieved status?
Durkheim’s term for normlessness in society.
What is anomie?
This theory describes how unpopular opinions go unspoken online, reinforcing silence.
What is the spiral of silence?
This term refers to partners living together without being legally married.
What is cohabitation
A student who is also a caregiver at home might experience this inconsistency.
What is status inconsistency?
This type of labor market includes low-wage, low-security jobs with few benefits.
What is the secondary labor market?
This theory suggests that people become deviant when they’re labeled that way.
What is labeling theory?
Social spaces like cafés or parks that promote community interaction are known as this.
What are third places
This term refers to a family that includes relatives beyond the immediate parents and children.
What is an extended family
Groups that we compare ourselves to or aspire to be like are called this.
What are reference groups?
This form of inequality can lead to disparities in health and education outcomes.
What is economic inequality?
This theory argues that people learn deviance by observing others, especially in close relationships.
What is social learning theory?
Someone who accepts media without questioning its message is described this way.
What is a passive consumer
In the last 50 years, this living arrangement has increased significantly, especially among young adults.
What is cohabitation
A collection of people in the same place at the same time, but with no true interaction.
What is an aggregate?
This group has grown as a proportion of the poor over the past 40 years, especially among single-parent families.
Who are women and children?
Merton’s idea where someone rejects cultural goals but continues to follow the rules.
What is ritualism?
This phenomenon occurs when a group makes poor decisions to maintain harmony.
What is groupthink?