Deviance/Social control
A type of behavior that violates the formal criminal law.
What is crime?
The founder of sociology.
Who is Auguste Come?
The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed down from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
Regular patterns of social interaction and persistent social relationships.
What is social structure?
Two or more people that interact frequently.
What is a social group?
A behavior that violates is norms and rules of society.
What is deviance?
Seeing the general in the particular.
What is sociological perspective?
The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture.
What is culture shock?
A socially recognized position in a social system. May be defined by occupation, age, gender, race, and education.
What is social status?
The corners in life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society.
What is social location?
The group that believes that deviance plays an important role in society and should be used to challenge people's view.
What is a functionalists?
A statement of how and why specific facts are related.
What is a theory
Not judging a culture, but trying to understand it on its own terms.
What is cultural relativism?
A specific position so important that it dominates all other statuses a person obtains.
What is a master status?
A small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships.
What is a primary group?
A non violent crime committed for financial gain.
What is white collar crime?
A sociology pioneer that has a PHD and founded the national association of the advancement of colored people.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
A group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the values of the broader culture.
What is counterculture?
A status in which individuals acquire through their own actions. (EX: college student, athlete)
What is an achieved status?
Group leadership that focuses on the completion of tasks.
What is instrumental leadership?
Refers to the many ways in which our behavior, thoughts, and appearance are regulated by norms, rules, laws, and social structures of society.
What is social control?
This important figure founded the conflict theory, and wanted a classless system.
Who is Karl Marx?
The use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors.
What is ethnocentrism?
The set of all roles associated with a particular social status.
What is a role status?
The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue...
What is groupthink?