The fastest growing minority population in the United States?
Who are the Hispanics?
100
The spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another.
What is cultual diffusion?
100
Discrimination against the elderly.
What is ageism?
100
Behavior that violoates signficant social norms (mores)
What is deviance?
100
A group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new cultural pattern. (example: Hippie movement of the 1960s)
What is a counterculture?
200
The social science that studies human society and social behavior.
What is sociology?
200
A person's family would be considered a _________ group.
What is primary?
200
Shared beliefs about what is right or wrong, desirable of undesirable?
What are values?
200
An observable fact that involves human society.
What is social phenomena?
200
Hatred and discrimination against Jews.
What is anti-semitism?
300
A college classroom of students would be considered a ____________________ group.
What is secondary?
300
The socially defined position in a group or in a society is known as a ______?
What is status?
300
A mark of social disgrace that sets a deviant off from the rest of society.
What is a stigma?
300
Being born a female is an example of a ___________ status.
What is ascribed?
300
The social science that is based on the comparative study of past and present cultures.
What is anthropology?
400
The blending of culturally distinct groups into a single group with a common culture and identity is called ____________.
What is assimilation?
400
The distance between two people that is comfortable.
What is personal space?
400
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, and behaviors of a society is
What is socialization?
400
Things that stand for something else and have shared meanings (example: The American Flag)
What are symbols?
400
A societies language, beliefs, values, norms, material objects, and technology make up its____________.
What is culture?
500
The way that people relate to one another and influence one another's behavior is known as social ____________.
What is interaction?
500
Mary changes her occupation from being a nurse to a teacher this is an example of ___________ mobility.
What is horizontal?
500
Bob's dad was a mechanic and Bob just received a law degree. This is an example of ____________ mobility.
What is intergenerational?
500
The theory that views deviance as a learned behavior
a. cultural transmission theory
b. structural strain theory
c. control theory
d. labeling theory
What is the cultural transmission theory?
500
The situation in which two or more people work together to obtain a goal.