Two people on US paper currency who were never presidents.
Who is Benjamin Franklin? Who is Alexander Hamilton?
100
Earnings from work and investments
What is income?
100
Prejudice and discrimination against the elderly and aging.
What is ageism?
100
Type of collective that describes people who are physically close to one another.
What is a localized collective?
100
After refusing to shoot an injured bear during a hunt, the "Teddy Bear" was created and then named after this President in 1903.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
200
The heaviest president in US history. He once got stuck in his own bathtub.
Who is William Taft?
200
This class has the highest percentage of involvement in local politics.
What is the upper-middle class? (must say upper-middle).
200
The two causes of the growing aging population. (must name both)
What is a longer life expectancy? What is a lower birth rate?
200
Social eruption that is highly emotional, violent, and undirected.
What is a riot?
200
Co-author of "The Communist Manifesto"
Who is Karl Marx (Or Friedrich Engels)?
300
Cousin of a former president, this president died in office from a disease that has since been eradicated and had a wife well known for her philanthropy and now-not-so-secret lesbian affair.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
Income, wealth, power, occupational prestige and schooling are all dimensions of this.
What is social stratification?
300
Aging personality defined by pretending to need more help than necessary, and having little confidence in their abilities.
What is a passive-dependent personality?
300
Crowd behavior theory stating that like-minded people wishing to act in a certain way form crowds.
What is the convergence theory?
300
Victorian practice of photographing the dead which translates to "remember your mortality"
What is memento mori?
400
President who passed the most civil rights legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
400
Cutbacks in social service budgets, poverty, substance abuse and mental illness, and economic downturns are all causes of this.
What is homelessness?
400
Controversial subject legal in 6 states and Washington DC. Also known as physician-assisted suicide.
What is Euthanasia?
400
A critique of this theory is that it suggests flawed people, rather than a flawed society, are responsible for social movements.
What is the mass society theory?
400
A founding sociologist who penned a study of suicide and showed that society can be studied in the same ways a hard science can be studied (although it is not one).
Who is Durkheim?
500
In 1841, After giving an inauguration speech in bad weather, this president caught a cold and died after only 31 days in office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
500
59% of members of this social class are of this gender. (2 answers, must get both correct)
What is poverty; who are women?
500
The fourth stage in confronting one's own death.
What is resignation/depression?
500
Type of panic that is encouraged by mass media and is prevalent in the United States.
What is moral panic?
500
Fluid and changes according to social need in order to maintain dominance.