Places
$20 Words
Sociological Terms
College Name Dropping
The Big Sort
100

This town had exploding growth between 1960 and 2010, largely in the tech industry

Austin, TX

100

A mixture or medley

Melenge

100

Cultural inbreeding, especially as the result of isolation

Homogamy

100

This college, located in New Haven, CT graduated a father and son who both served as President of the United States

Yale

100

Murray's term for areas in which only 1 to 5% of similar places obtained the same education and income levels

Super Zips

200

This major city's population remained about the same between 1960 and 2010, but the percentage of college educated population nearly doubled

New York, NY

200

Seeking to impose an ironclad view of things on other people regardless of the consequences

Doctrinaire

200

A measure of the evenness with which groups are distributed across a population

Dissimilarity index

200

America's oldest college, considered by some to be the standard bearer of elite, Ivy League universities

Harvard

200

The population of a Super Zip who are such a small sliver of the American population that, to most of the country they are unrecognizable

Narrow elite

300

This town in the Midwest once featured corporate CEO's, municipal employees, store clerks and a full range of professional and blue collar workers living within close proximity to each other, but that has mostly changed today

Newton, Iowa

300

The income level above or below which a family is considered poor

Poverty line

300

This Ivy League college is located in New Jersey

Princeton

300

OEB stands for

Overeducated Elitist Snob

400

This is an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Maryland

Chevy Chase

400

The deliberate disassociation from other groups by one group

Selective segregation

400

This state college so improved its academic reputation that by 2010 it was considered one of eight "State Ivies"

University of TX at Austin

400

Civic organizations typically focused on one or two charity causes that brought people (mostly men) of all classes together throughout the 20th Century

Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club

500

This town of around 13,000 represents a small town superzip in Massachusetts 

Wayland, MA

500

The midpoint of a frequency of distribution of variables or observed observation

Median

500

This Ivy League university located in Manhattan boasted a football team that at one point lost 44 straight games

Columbia University

500

A magazine that rich people can read that tells them which bottle of wine to bring to an elite dinner party, even if they don't know anything about wine

Wine Spectator