Deviance
This nation has the highest rate of incarcerations in the world.
Who is the United States of America?
Race focuses on this type of trait.
What are biological traits?
Birthrates in the U.S today are trending in this direction.
What is dropping?
These are the fundamental assumptions that sociologist have about the social world, guiding their thinking and research.
What are Theoretical or Social Paradigms?
Modern social stratification is divided into this pyramidal display.
What is a social hierarchy?
Merton defined this idea as achieving culturally set goals by way of conventionally approved means?
What is Conformity?
These states are U.S. states where people of color collectively outnumber the the white population, with current examples including Hawaii, California and New Mexico.
What are Majority-Minority States?
Right leaning or conservative perspectives support this kind of authority.
What is traditional authority?
This sociological thinker believed that the fate of the modern world is meaningless as we all become locked in what he called an "iron cage" of bureaucratic capitalism.
Who is Max Weber?
Your social status and prestige is likely to be affected by this concept.
What is the idea that states deviance is a matter of impulse control?
What is Containment Theory?
This broad pattern of interaction between racial groups includes the physical and social separation of categories of people.
What is segregation?
This economic system emphasizes profit seeking and competition as the main drivers of efficiency.
What is Capitalism?
This sociological perspective focuses on the ways in which traditional notions about family perpetuate social inequality.
What is Social Conflict Theory?
This concept describes the movement of individuals between strata in a society.
What is social mobility?
To be deviant you need these four things.
This pattern of interaction most notably targeted Native Americans in the U.S from the 19th to 20th centuries and was framed as a way of civilizing their culture.
What is Assimilation?
This social institution notably is affected by social structure and creates the School to Prison Pipeline.
What is the Educational Institution?
This major sociological paradigm is primarily focused on microlevel phenomena.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
This social class is distinguished primarily by the types of jobs that are associated with it, specifically jobs that involve manual labor.
What is the lower middle or "working" class?
These three core categories that define what a society labels as deviant are outlined as the ABC's of Deviance.
What are Attitudes, Behaviors, and Conditions?
This sociological theory explains how people redirect their frustration and aggression away from a real source.
What is Scapegoat Theory?
Sociologists define health as wellbeing in these three ways.
What is Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing?
The phenomena of Double Consciousness was founded by this sociological thinker regarding Race ConflictTheory.
Who was William Edward Burghardt Du Bois?
William Rostow identified these four stages of modernization.
What is the Traditional Stage, the Take-Off Stage, the Drive to Technological Maturity Stage, and the High Mass Consumption Stage?