Which discipline describes itself as "the sstematic study of...
Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population...
Family is important to the socialization process because:
A peer group is a social group whose members share common interests,...
The idea of "getting" a joke, according to the text, depends...
The term "bureaucracy" refers to:
______refers to a person's romantic and emotional attraction to...
Sexual attraction to someone of the same sex is called:
What term refers to a belief that one racial category is innately...
The holocaust, in which the Nazis murdered million of Jews, is an...
The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by:
Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in...
The unpleasant and even frightening exprience of encountering a...
Cultural transmission refers to process of:
The most widely spoken language in the United States, other than...
The term "subculture" refers to:
Multiculturalism is defined as:
Ethnocentrism refers to:
According to Jean Piaget, language and other symbols are first used in...
Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:
Little or no sexual attraction to people of either sex is called:
Elite prostitutes--young, attractive, and well eduated--are referred...
According to Piaget, in what stage of human development do individuals...
George Herbert Mead considered the self to be:
Ageism refers to:
The term "presentation of self" refers to:
The term "McDonaldization of society" refers to:
What is the term for the formal system that responds to the alleged...
The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises...
One norm found everywhere is the incest taboo, which refers to:
Durkheim documented that catergories of people with weaker social ties...
What is the term for the beliefs, vaules, behavior, and material...
Counterculture refers to:
Socialization takes place entirely in childhood.
What is the term for attitudes and activities that a society links to...
What term refers to an invisible, yet real, barrier that prevents many...
Which of the following terms refers to cultural heritage?
What is the term for a rigid and irrational generalization about an...
___________are characteristics of personality.
What is the term for a social position that is recieved at birth or...
A secondary group is a social group that:
Which type of leadership style focuses on instrumental concerns,...
Which type of group leader supports collective decision-making on an...
Which type of leaders tend to downplay their position and power,...
Which type of formal orgnization do people typically join to make...
From the point of view of a patient who is involuntarily committed,...
Which of the following terms refers to the rule of many by few?
Which of the following sociological terms refers to "the...
"Crime" differs from "deviance" in that crime:
A hate crime is defined as:
"Crimes against persons" includes ALL BUT WHICH of the...
What is the term for the biological distinction between males and...
Sexual attraction to people of both sexes is called:
Social stratification refers to:
Because of social stratification:
Which of the following factors affect social class standing in the...
Which of the following people had an important influence on...
Until about 10,000 years ago, most poeple in world lived...
By saying that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange...
The process by which people act react in relation to others is called:
What is the sociological term for a social group with two members?
What is the sociological term for a social group toward which we feel...
What is the sociological term coined by Irving Janis for a limited...
What is the term for social organization in which males dominate...
While race refers to_______considered important by society, ethinicity...
Which of the following terms refers to the physical and social...
All but one of the following statements are correct. Which one is NOT...
The term "homophobia" refers to:
The social-conflict approach draws attention to:
By "taking the role of other," or the "ME" part of...
What is the term for the tension among roles connected to a single...
The study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance is...
What do sociologists call two or more people who identify and interact...
In his strain theory, Robert Merton would use which of the following...
Which is the term for crime committed by person of high scoial...
_______refers to the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting...
Prostitution is widely regarded as what kind of crime?
A child's sex is determined shortly before birth by...
In a caste system:
The term "meritocracy" refers to social stratification:
Ideology refers to:
Gender refers to:
According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher...
Which theoretical apporoach is closest to that taken by early...
The language spoken by poeple in more nations of world than any other...
Hitler's aryan race was derived from ideas of U.S. race...
The spread of technomedia means that culture is now less likely to be:
Intersection theory focuses on:
What is the term for a category of people, distinguished by physical...
In the documentary, Race: The power of illusion, it was stated that we...
At a given time, you occupy a number of statuses. These are you:
What is the term for a status that has very great importance for...
Assume a surgeon chooses not to operate on her own son because the...
Which of the following is NOT one of the principles of...
Which of the following is a legal term meaning "guilty mind"...
A college professor who has advanced degrees, moderate salary, and...
_______is way of understanding the world based on science.
Cultural relativism means evaluating another culture according to the...
Jean Piaget's focus was on:
Jean Piaget called the level of development do individuals first use...
_________refers to efforts to radically change someone's...
What is the term for the conflict among roles corresponding to two or...
Here are four assertions about the social foundation of deviance;...
At birth, males and females are distinguished by_________, which are...
The weight of evidence indicated that sexual orientation is caused...
Critics of easily available pornography agrue that:
A caste system is defined as:
The practice of persons from one culture judging any other culture by...
Institutional prejudice and discrimination refers to the fact that:
Which of the following is at the heart of the controvery over...
Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing...
According to Comte, societies in which stage of development begin to...
If you were to attend a New York Ballet performance, you would be...
Afrocentrism refers to the dominnce of European cultural patterns.
In all societies:
Multiculturalists oppose assimilation because:
The "beauty myth" refers to the idea that:
How many states according to the film passed laws forbidding...
W.E.B. Du Bois' Africana theory was pert of the social-conflict...
Comte described the earliest human societies as being within which...
Are discussed in class, which of the following statements is true?
What is term for person's fairly consistent patttern of...
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's...
_________defines who and what we are in relation to others.
Sociologists use what term to refer to the behavior people expect of...
What is the correct sociological term for all people with a common...
Formal organizations are:
In the United States, men account for______of all arrests for violent...
The development of breats and deeper voices in males are examples of:
The common ideology of a class system treats______as a sign of...
Patterns of socialization vary by class; in child-rearing, lower-class...
Three states currently have a "minority-majority". Which of...
Also, from the documentary Race: The power of illusion, it was stated...
Based on the documentary, it was said that sickle cell disease is a...
What is the term for a social position that is recieved at birth or...
Which of following statements linking nature and nurture is correct?
Which of the following is most likely to be a master status?
Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance uses the term_______to...
Organized crime refers to:
Stealing a bicycle from a front yard is one example of which criminal...
Suicide rates are generally higher among:
In Freud's model of personality, what represents the presence of...
Which of the following terms refers to biological reproduction by...
Sexual harassment became an issue in the united states in:
Which statement reflects Simmel's understanding of the dyad?
Most people arrested for a violent crime are:
In terms of dramaturgical analysis, helping another person to...
Women often take the family name of men upon marriage. In sociological...
When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they...