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100
Marx, Weber, and Durkheim all agreed that religion is
What is "declining as a significant social force in society"?
100
The ________ is a household unit; ________ includes family but extends more broadly beyond the household to include additional blood and marital ties.
What is "family" and "kinship"?
100
__________ is the term for the regular enactment of policies, decisions, and matters of state on the part of officials within a political institution.
What is "The Government"?
100

Both property and violent crime rates have _____________ since 1991.

What is "declined by 50+ percent"?

100
According to your text and lecture, _____________________ is/are at least as important and likely more important than ___________________ for educational outcomes such as ACT scores or graduation rates.
What is "parent's class"; "school resources"?
200
____________ sees religion as associated with major social changes, including the development of the modern capitalist economy
Who is "Max Weber"?
200
Robert is a doctor whose parents were upper middle class and white. He recently married Marianne, also a doctor, whose parents are also white and upper middle class. Robert’s and Marianne’s marriage can be described as:
What is endogamous?
200
_____________ refer to the right of every individual to enjoy a certain minimum standard of economic welfare and security.
What are "Social rights"?
200
According to sociologists, deviant behavior is behavior that violates _______________?
What is "widely held social norms"? (or just "social norms")
200

The Canvas reading “After the Bell Curve” suggests that the ____________________ between toddlers from poorer families and toddlers from middle and upper class families leads to later inequalities in educational achievement.

What is "30 million word gap"?

300
The Bellequins are a religious organization which formed by breaking away from Castellian church to return to the fundamental ideals that that church used to stand for. The group generally opposes and is trying to change the surrounding society. The Bellequins are a ___________.
What is a "sect"?
300
One way in which changes in marriage and family patterns may have contributed to growing household income inequality in the U.S. is because of widening __________ differences in marriages rates and marital stability.
What is "class"?
300
A unified group of people in the highest positions of government, business, and the military that runs the United States and exercises tremendous influence in the world is referred to by one theory of democracy as:
What is "the power elite"?
300
The country with the highest incarceration rate in the world is? 
What is "the United States"?
300

The Pygmalion in the Classroom study and video shows that IQ scores can be changed by _________________?

What is increased attention of teachers on particular children?

400
According to the _______________ approach religions can be understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers. Such competition, according to this approach, promotes religious belief.
What is "religious economy"?
400
_____________ theory suggests that the family as a social institution often helps reproduce gender inequalities found in the larger society.
What is "Feminist"?
400
The set of symbols and beliefs providing the sense of being part of a single political community is known as ___________.
What is "nationalism"?
400
The project manager of a manufacturing firm awards a lucrative subcontract to a company that pays her a bribe. The project manager has engaged in ______________.
What is "white-collar crime"?
400
In lecture we talked about 3 key functions of education. We also suggested that there are significant tensions between the ___________ function and the _____________ function.
What is "sorting" or "equality of opportunity"?
500
The idea that religion is declining as a social force in society is associated with the term _____________.
What is "secularization"?
500
______________ theory argues that the family serves the needs of society as a whole and all of the members of the family.
What is "functionalist"?
500

The exist polls from the 2024 presidential election show that voting choices tend to vary by race-ethnicity, class, and gender. This idea suggests support for the notion that patterns of social relations shape what people do, which is also core to our definition of _______________.

What is "sociology"?

500
Norm violations that are codified into law are known as:
What is "crimes"?
500
Early studies of inequalities in educational achievement have tended to overstate the importance of ______________ and understate the importance of ____________ factors.
What is "genetic/biological" and "social"?