Sexuality
The selling of sexual services.
What is prostitution?
A powerful negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity.
What is stigma?
A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.
What is social stratification?
The social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms & values.
What is education?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is health?
A person's romantic and emotional attraction to another person.
What is sexual orientation?
Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior.
What is social control?
A composite ranking based on various dimensions of social inequality.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
Formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers.
What is schooling?
The social institution that focuses on fighting disease and improving health.
What is medicine?
People whose bodies (including genitals) have both female and male characteristics.
What are intersexual people?
The idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions.
What is labeling theory?
A change in position within the social hierarchy.
What is social mobility?
A lack of the reading and writing skills needed for everyday living.
What is functional illiteracy?
Patterns of behavior defined as appropriate for people who are ill.
What is the sick role?
A body of research findings that challenges the heterosexual bias in U.S. society.
What is queer theory?
Later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes.
What is criminal recidivism?
The experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessness.
What is alienation?
Integrating students with disabilities or special needs into the overall educational program.
What is mainstreaming?
A medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians.
What is socialized medicine?
A view that labels anyone who is not heterosexual as "queer".
What is heterosexism?
The attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment.
What is deterrence?
Buying and using products because of the "statement" they make about social position.
What is conspicuous consumption?
Assigning students to different types of educational programs.
What is tracking?
An organization that provides comprehensive medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee.
What is a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)?