How Society Shapes Us
This sociological pioneer introduced the idea of the sociological imagination.
Who is C. Wright MIlls
This is the smallest type of social group, characterized by close personal relationships.
What is a primary group?
In the U.S. Census, this category is considered an ethnicity rather than a race.
What is Hispanic or Latino?
In many cultures, this traditional family structure includes a mother, father, and their biological children living together.
What is the nuclear family?
This crime survey includes unreported crimes, unlike FBI data that only counts what police record.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey?
These are the rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
What are norms?
According to Robert Merton, this term describes someone who breaks the rules to achieve a socially approved goal.
What is an innovator?
This term refers to any group that holds the most power, privileges and social status in a society regardless of its size.
What is a dominant group?
From this perspective, ageism is reinforced through everyday interactions and labels that define older adults as less capable.
What is symbolic interactionism?
COIL stands for this.
What is Collaborative Online International Learning?
This term refers to the lifelong process by which individuals develop a sense of self and learn the patterns of their culture through interactions with others.
What is socialization?
A prison, a mental hospital or a military boot camp are all examples of this kind of organization where daily life is controlled and regulated.
What is total institution?
A highly educated person working in a low-paying job is an example of this concept.
What is status inconsistency?
This term describes the expectation that people will marry someone with similar social characteristics.
What is endogamy?
This concept describes the tension people feel when they occupy two conflicting social statuses, like being a wife and a caregiver?
What is role conflict?
According to Erving Goffman, this type of analysis compares everyday life to a theater performance.
What is dramaturgy?
This term refers to a system in which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.
What is social stratification?
Race, gender and age are examples of this kind of social status.
What is ascribed status?
In female-dominated professions, men often experience this advantage that helps them progress more quickly in their career.
What is glass escalator?
We discussed the work of this early sociologist who argues that whiteness functions as a global standard of power and domination.
Who is WEB DuBois?
There are two broad types of culture, one made up of physical objects and the other of ideas and beliefs.
What are material and nonmaterial culture?
A teenager skips school, then starts getting into fights and is eventually expelled. Sociologists use this term in labeling theory to describe the process where a minor deviant act progresses to more serious infractions.
What is secondary deviance?
This concept describes how race and class can work together to create overlapping systems of disadvantage.
What is intersectionality?
This is a new sociological term that has emerged as young adults choose to live with their parents rather than a spouse or a partner.
What is adultescence?
This in-depth research method involves immersing oneself in a social setting for extended observation and participation.
What is ethnography?