The study of the development, structure, & functioning of human society.
What is Sociology
100
The process if learning the role & values necessary for participating in social groups or institutions.
What is Socialization.
100
Factors of Socialization:
In every society, this factor can play an important role in an individual’s life.
What is Religion.
100
Behaving in a way that follows rules, standards, or laws
What is “conformity.”
100
Acts that are subject to legal or civil penalties.
What is crime.
200
The ability to think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life & look at them from an entirely new perspective. Having an awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.
What is The Sociological Imagination.
200
The most important agent of socialization
What is Family
200
Culture can be divided into two categories. This category consists of language, values, rules, knowledge, & meanings shared by the members of a society.
What is Non-material Culture.
200
Behaving in a manner not consistent with a community's sense of conformity.
What is deviant.
200
What percentage of crimes reported in the United States are cleared by an arrest?
21%
300
The expected performance of someone who occupies a specific position.
What is Role
300
This function promotes specific skills & abilities necessary for functioning in a highly technological society.
What is School.
300
The 2nd category of Culture, includes physical objects that a society produces—tools, streets, sculptures, toys, etc. This category depends on the non-material culture for meaning.
What is Material Culture.
300
True or False…the definition of deviant behavior often shifts from culture to culture?
True
300
This theory examines how certain behaviors become deviant because they are labeled as such.
What is the labeling theory.
400
The organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together compose society.
What is Social Structure
400
Similarities are an enormous indicator for who you will hang out with.
What are Peers.
400
The tendency to judge another culture solely based on the values & standards of one's own culture; especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, & religion.
What is Ethnocentrism.
400
Self-control, informal control, formal control
What are the three levels of social control?
400
This theory suggests that competition and class conflict within society create deviance.
What is conflict theory.
500
Role & Social Structure.
What are the two basic concepts in Sociology.
500
Television is the most important mass medium for socialization.
What is Mass Media.
500
This is the way of life shared by members of a society & resides in tangible forms such as language, values, and symbolic meanings; also includes technology & material objects.
What is Culture.
500
For each of the three levels of social control, give us one example of a behavior that is regulated by that form of control.
Could vary
500
Which theory is based on the idea that you tend to behave in a similar manner to those whom you surround yourself with?