These groups are closest to you. They may be family or close friends
What are primary groups?
100
These are more serious rules of society. You can expect serious consequences if you break one. Examples might be beating a child or killing someone.
What are mores?
100
This is the name for an organized group of people who generally want to do good things.
What is a council?
100
This word means to suddenly and completely fall down. Please spell this word.
What is "collapse?"
100
These are legal and written rules enforced by the government.
What are laws?
200
This is your "place" in society. Some people may rank high while others rank lower.
What is status?
200
These are behaviors that are held in high esteem in our society. Examples might be competitiveness, winning, and individualism. Others could be personal freedoms, success, liberty, and free speech.
What are American values?
200
This is a term for when you talk to someone in order to help them solve a problem.
What is counsel?
200
This is the word for bits of garbage that is lying around or is blown around from place to place. Please spell this word.
What is "debris?"
200
These are characteristics that groups of people believe are important, good, proper, and positive. One group's ideals might not always match with another group's.
What are cultural values?
300
These are the "parts" you play within society and within your groups. Expectations of one group might not necessarily agree with another group's expectations.
What are roles?
300
These are a set of consequences that occur for following, or breaking, rules. They can be rewarding or punishing.
What are sanctions?
300
This is the word that means something belongs to it. Please spell this word.
What is "its?"
300
This is a place where you can eat and pay for your meal. Please spell this word.
What is "restaurant?"
300
These organized groups help us learn the rules of society. Some examples are families, schools, and churches.
What are social institutions?
400
This is the term for studying people, their behavior, and behavior in groups of people.
What is sociology?
400
These are consequences you are awarded for following rules of society. Examples might be "Muir Moolah," Star Student, a raise in salary,or earning allowance money.
What are positive sanctions?
400
This is a pronoun that means something belongs to them. Please spell this word.
What is "their?"
400
These two words mean many, a great number, or much. They are always spelled as two words. Please spell these two words.
What is "a lot?"
400
These organized groups help us learn the rules of society, but they are not necessarily close to us. Examples might be clubs or sport teams
What are secondary groups?
500
These are the unwritten rules of how we behave in society.
What are norms?
500
These are negative consequences for breaking rules of society. Examples might be getting a ticket, paying a fine, serving a detention, losing your driver's license, or getting grounded.
What are negative sanctions?
500
This is the contraction for the words "it is." Please spell this word.
What is "it's?"
500
This is one of our sociology words. It means an organized group within society. Some examples might be a family, a church, or a school. Please spell this word.
What is "institution?"
500
These are simple rules of society that you accept and obey without thinking much about them. No big consequences occur if you break one of these rules. Examples might be talking with your mouth full or belching loudly.