Family & Religion
Crime & Deviance
Education
Research methods & Theorists
Christmas movies & trivia
100

This family is also known as the traditional family or the "cereal packet" family?

Nuclear family

100

This is the sociological term for behaviour that goes against the societal norms and values

What is deviance?

100

To have a perception of others is said to be?

Labelling

100

Which theorist proposed that religion can play a role in bringing about change in society?

Weber

100

In Home Alone 1, this is the city that the McCallisters are going on vacation to when they leave Kevin behind

What is Paris?

200

These are the two types of the extended family type.

What is the vertically & horizontal extended family?

200

Crime is beneficial to society, enforcing various positive functions in society; social regulation, social integration and social change. 

What is the Functionalist view of Crime & Deviance?


Bonus Points: Which theorist argues this mainly?

200

This refers to things students learn through the experience of attending school rather than the stated educational objectives

What is the Hidden Curriculum?

200

Which theorist argued that religion justifies poverty and oppression.

Karl Marx

200

This country started up the tradition of putting up a tree at Christmas time

What is Germany?

300

A family type where it is helmed and led by a female parent.

What is a Matrifocal family?

300

This is when there is a demand from a cultural goal to earn money but there are a lack of opportunities and this leads to frustrations and additional pressures and results to people achieving their cultural goal through illegitimate ways.

What is Merton's Strain Theory?

300

When someone acts according to the label placed on them

What is a Self-fulfilling Prophecy?

300

Which theorist claims that the growth of the matrifocal family was influenced by economic factors?

Oscar Lewis

300

This is the name that is given to Jack Skellington by his fellow members of the town of Halloween

What is the Pumpkin King?

400

There are four types of religious organizations: Church, Sect, Cult and?

Denomination

400

Sanctions, both informal & formal, are used in the regulation and enforcement of this in society concerning getting people to conform

What is Social Control?

400

A process in schools that categorises pupils by ability.

What is Streaming/Setting?

400

Which theorists argues that all social phenomena are classified into the sacred and profane?

Emile Durkheim

400

This actor played 6 different roles in "The Polar Express" animated movie

Who is Tom Hanks?


The Conductor, Santa, The Hero Boy, The Hero Boy’s Dad, The Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet, The Ghost on the Train, and The Narrator

500

The belief in spirits or ghosts that coexist with humans in the world?

What is Animism?

500

Sociologists taking this approach claim that most deviance results from some persons having been identified, or labeled, as deviants. These theorists distinguish between primary and secondary deviance 

What is the Labeleling Theory of Crime & Deviance? 

500

A society that is based on the idea which social status is based on ability and achievement is known as this

What is Meritocracy?

500

The family "includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, their own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults."

George Peter Murdock

500

These are the names of Santa's 8 Reindeer (other than Rudolph)

Who are:

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen