Social rules that specify appropriate behavior in a given situation
What are norms?
100
Cultural patterns which are widespread among a society's population
What is "popular culture"?
100
Which sociological perspective would view society as a system or living organism in which each part/component is related to each other and contributes to its overall survival and stability?
What is structural-functionalism?
100
the total value of money and assets, minus outstanding debts
What is wealth?
200
The practice of understanding another culture by using it's own standards
What is "cultural relativism"?
200
a statement of a possible relationship between two or more variables
What is a "hypothesis"?
200
a status that a person obtains voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort.
What is an achieved status?
200
a perspective that sees society in terms of inequality that generates conflict and change.
What is social conflict approach?
200
judging another culture using standards of YOUR culture
What is ethnocentrism?
300
Rules about everyday, casual living
What are "folkways"?
300
social stratification based on ascription, or birth
What is a caste system?
300
Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those of the larger culture
What is a "counterculture"?
300
One of the causes of prejudice that results from frustration among disadvantaged people finding another group to blame for their problems
What is "Scapegoat" theory?
300
Goffman's term for the study of social interaction in terms of a theatrical performance
What is dramaturgical approach?
400
UNintended and unrecognized consequences of a social pattern
What are "latent functions"?
400
culturally defined standards of what is good and desirable in a society that serve as broad guidelines for living
What are values?
400
Some cultural element change more quickly than others
What is "cultural lag"?
400
the functional analysis claiming that stratification has beneficial consequences for society and that certain jobs pay more because of the education and training required.
What is the Davis-Moore thesis?
400
a trend that women make up an increasing percentage of the poor
What is feminization of poverty?
500
The term for the non-material and material objects that make up a way of life for group of people
What is "culture"?
500
the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern
What are manifest functions?
500
A social position that is received at birth
What is "ascribed status"?
500
an approach that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals
What is the symbolic interaction approach?
500
a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity