The Economy
This is the social institution in which resources are distributed.
What is the Economy?
A group related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
What is a family?
This is the study of social causes and consequences of health.
What is medical sociology?
This refers to the structured learning in schools, focused on a specific curriculum.
What is formal education?
The theoretical perspective that views religion as providing social cohesion and stability.
What is functionalism?
This is the integration of world economies and cultures.
What is globalization?
The family you are born into is also known as this.
What is your family of orientation?
The process by which conditions are redefined as medical issues.
Situation in which higher grades are granted without higher achievement.
What is grade inflation?
The holy text of Islam.
What is the Quran?
This economic system emphasizes private ownership and profit.
What is capitalism?
According to this perspective, the media is a tool for maintaining power structures.
What is conflict theory?
HIV/AIDS is an example of this.
What is a stigmatized illness?
Process by which students are grouped by ability?
What is tracking?
According to Weber, this type of authority is based on often bureaucratic structures and rules.
What is legal-rational authority?
This type of unemployment results from economic downturns.
What is structural unemployment?
iPods would be an example of this because they changed how we listen to music.
What is disruptive technology?
This refers to unequal distributions of access to care.
What are healthcare disparities?
This includes the unwritten values and norms taught in schools.
What is the hidden curriculum?
Manipulating district boundaries for political advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
This type of solidarity is based on shared beliefs and values.
What is mechanical solidarity?
This is the gap between those who have access to technology and those who don't.
What is the digital divide?
This field is interested in how illnesses and diseases are socially distributed.
What is social epidemiology?
Court case that ensured education for students with disabilities.
What is Mills v. Board of Education?
This is a system in which citizens vote on the laws themselves.
What is a direct democracy?