What is our language, beliefs, values, norms and behaviors?
Culture
100
What are people who temporarily share the same physical space but who do not see themselves as belonging together?
An Aggregate
100
What is the division of people according to Income, Education, and Occupational Prestige?
Social Class
100
What is a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinquish it from another group?
A Race
100
What are people who concider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption?
Family
200
What are Folkways?
Norms that are stricktly enforced
200
What are assumptions of what people are like?
Steroetypes
200
What do underclass, working poor, working, lower middle, upper middle, and capitalist class represent?
The U.S. Social Class Ladder
200
What is unfair treatment directed against someone?
Discrimination
200
What are women more likely to become than men?
Widowed
300
What is Cultural Leveling?
Groups adopting Western Culture in place of their own customs.
300
What are the Girls Scouts, Boy Scouts, Elks, Chamber of Commerce, VFW and American Legion?
Voluntary Associations
300
What is one of the strongest factors in poverty?
Race-Ethnicity
300
What is the invisible barrier that prevents women from reaching the executive suite?
Glass-ceiling
300
What is an increasingly significant type of family in the United States?
Blended Family
400
What is the process by which our sense of self develops as per Charles H. Cooley.
Looking-Glass self
400
What are social groups characterized by hierarchy, division of labor, written rules and communications, impersonality and replaceability of positions
Bereaucracies
400
What is the ability to get ones way even though other's resist?
Power
400
What is the term refering to the increasing percentage of older people in the U.S. Population?
Graying of America
400
What are people who find themselves responsible for two other generations: their children and their aging parents?
Sandwich Generation
500
What is Family, Religion, Daycare, Neighborhood, School and Peer Groups, Workplace?
What are the Agents of Socialization?
500
What are Hunting & Gathering Societies, Pastoral & Horticultural Societies, Agricultural & Industrial Societies and Postindustrial and Information Society?
Social Revolutions
500
What is a person who ranks similar on all three dimensions of social class: property, power and prestige?
Status Consistent
500
(2 part question) What are people who are singled out for unequal treatment. And then what is the group with more power, privilege and social status?
Minority groups and Dominant groups
500
The rate of this is about 50% in the United States?