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What are the organized ways in which a society meets its basic needs?
Social Institutions
What is an element that has a negative effect on society?
Dysfunction
What is a person who has acted in violation of one or more of society’s most highly valued norms?
Deviant
What are genetically inherited patterns of behavior?
Instincts
What term refers to the blending of a minority into the dominant society?
Assimilation
What is the term when ethnic and immigrant groups maintain some of their uniqueness while they have an influence on society at large?
Cultural Pluralism
What are rules that cover customary ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving but lack moral overtones?
Folkways
What is a subculture that is deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs?
Counter Culture
What theory emphasizes the role of primary groups in transmitting deviance?
Differential Association Theory
What is a pattern of subjugation that arises from everyday practices rather than by law?
De Facto Segregation
What is a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent?
Anomie
What are the first two stages of the life cycle?
Childhood
Adolescence
What is the process of preparing for new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors?
Anticipatory Socialization
What is the process by which people give up old norms called?
Desocialization
What is it called when people over-conform to norms, which leads to imbalance and extremes of perfectionism?
Positive Deviance
What theoretical perspective emphasizes social stability and the way the different parts of society contribute to the whole and believe that deviance has both positive and negative consequences?
Functionalism
Which Sociologist believed human beings act on the basis of their own understanding of a situation?
Max Weber
Which Sociologist decided to attack the “Negro Problem?”
W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the debate over the balance between genetics and environmental factors called?
Nature vs Nurture
What is the feeling of surprise and confusion people may feel when they encounter cultural practices different from their own?
Cultural Shock
What are the three theoretical perspectives most widely used by sociologists?
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
The term culture refers to what 5 things that are passed down from generation to generation?
Knowledge
Language
Values/Beliefs
Customs
Physical Objects
What are the three factors that sociologists have identified that cause change in social norms and cultures over time?
Inventions
Discovery
Diffusion
What are the three-stage process that gives the ability for role taking?
Imitation Stage
Play Stage
Game Stage
What are Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grieving associated with the process of dying?
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance