General
Families
Education
Religion
Politics and War
100
The systematic and scientific study of human behavior, social groups, and society.
What is Sociology?
100
The first major agent of socialization consisting of 2 or more people who are related by blook, marriage, or adoption or who are part of a relationship in which ther is commitment, mutual aid and support, and, often shared residence.
What is Family?
100
The process by which culture is passed from one generation to the next.
What is Cultural Transmission?
100
An agent of socialization which consists of a system of socially shared symbols, beliefs, and rituals that address the sacred and the ultimate meaning of human existence.
What is Religion?
100
The ability to realize one's will even against the resistance and opposition of others.
What is Power?
200
The learned set of beliefs, values, norms, and material goods shared by group members.
What is Culture?
200
A legally reconized economic and sexual relationship between 2 or more persons that includes mutual rights and obligations and is assumed to be permanent.
What is Marriage?
200
An aspect of education designed to teach dominant norms, values and consensus ideology.
What is a Hidden Curriculum?
200
Form of authority based on custom and habit, which has its roots in the distant past and often is religiously sanctioned.
What is Traditional Authority?
300
Opportunities for securing such things a health, education, autonomy, leisure, and a long life.
What are Life Chances?
300
An arrangement that has had a dramatically increasing rate over the past few decades where 2 people live together without legal marriage.
What is Cohabitation?
300
The focus on the contributions of Europeans to history, math, science, and literature which is an essential part of the hidden curriculum in most American schools.
What is Eurocentism?
300
Authority based on explicit rules, regulations, and procedures that define who holds power and how power is to be exercised and distributed.
What is Legal-rational Authority?
400
Cooley's concept that individuals use others like mirrors and base their conceptions of themselves on what is reflected back to them during social interactions.
What is the "Looking-Glass Self?"
400
A family type that has tripled during the past few decades in which one parent resides with and cares for one or more children.
What is the Single-Parent Family?
400
When predictions about students' abilities shape the students' future actions and behaviors in such a way that the predictions come true.
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
400
Authority based on unique personal qualities, which include the ability to excite and inspire followers.
What is Charasmatic Authority?
500
The tendency to evaluate the customs of other groups according to one's own cultural standards.
What is Ethnocentrism?
500
A form of media where patriarchal themes and continued bias toward intact nuclear families continue to dominate and therefore affect how we view the family.
What is Television?
500
A relatively popular form of schooling supported by some as more efficient, less expensive, and value-friendly--- and criticized by others for the lack of social interaction and accountability and possible narrow view of society.
What is Homeschooling?
500
Form of authority derived from the possession of specialized knowledge.
What is Expertise?