Chapter 12
When a woman has multiple husbands at one time, it is known as _____.
Polyandry
________ is the process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools are developed.
Education
_____is a precapitalist economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, serfs, and fiefs.
Feudalism
_____ is the worship of God or Gods.
Theism
Which social movement tries to cause a total change in specific individuals?
Redemptive social movement
_____ refers to familial networks that extend beyond the nuclear family and may extend beyond the home.
Extended Family.
________ is the need for credentials such as college degrees, to signal
social status or job qualifications.
Credentialism
What economist believes that competition helps maintain a cohesice society?
Adam Smith
_____ are groups who gather together, especially to worship.
Congregations
changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions. These changes occur over time and often have profound and long-term consequences for society. What is this?
Social Change.
______ is the practice of marrying (or being in a relationship with) one
person at a time.
Monogamy
Joseph is a high-school principal who wants to better match curriculum to students’ goals, so he puts in place a policy of dividing students into classes based on whether they plan to go to college. Joseph has implemented the widely criticized practice known as
Tracking
Suzie was a senior in high school and Jenny was a freshman. When jenny went to go pick her numbre for her jersey for soccer it was gone because suzie got it since she was an upperclassman. This was due to suzie having more?
Power
What did Marx's argue about religion?
Marx argued that religion was used to keep workers from questioning their oppressed position in everyday life by promising them riches in the afterlife.
To be successfully, social movement organizations (SMO) must have a
persuasive _____ _____, according to David Snow and colleagues.
Frame alignment
_____ traditional family, is a family consisting of a father and mother and their children.
Nuclear Family
Taking into account students’ family backgrounds, __________ schools tend to outperform __________ schools in preparing children academically.
Catholic; non-Catholic private
Lilly said if her friends Maria didn't the candy for her she would tell all of her friends that she peed her pants in 7th grade. Lilly made maria do something she did not want to do. This is called?
Coercion
According to _______, Protestantism is a necessary basis for capitalism because it states that a person fulfills the duty to God through hard work.
Max Weber
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is an example of what movement?
Alternative social movement (because it targets one behavior.)
This was the 1967 Supreme Court case that ended antimiscegenation laws (laws that said that interracial couples could not marry).
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Lauren attends a Catholic elementary school. She knows most of her classmates and their families from the Catholic church she attends with her parents. Sociological research suggests that this __________ that stems from the closeness of the Catholic community benefits student learning and academic achievement.
Social Capital
What experiment was devised in 1961 by Stanley Milgram to see how far ordinary people would go to obey a scientific authority figure.
Milgram experiment
_____ is the most prevalent world religion.
Christianity
a social movement that seeks, as a minimum, to overthrow the government or state is?
Revolutionary social movement.