SOCY 1000

when people follow social expectations to be married and want only the status of being married, marriage is what type? - Answer institutional what theory explains mate selection in terms of personality traits and supports the saying "opposites attract"? - Answer complimentary needs children are free to spend their time in unstructured activities when working class parents assume what? - Answer accomplishment of natural growth in what form of marriage is each part...

Race - Answer grouping of humans based on shared physical appearance or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society -biology Ethnicity - Answer belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition and heritage -culture Stereotype - Answer predetermined ideas about group -doesn't have to be negative -ex: asians are good at math Prejudice - Answer negative or irrational feeling about a group Discriminat...

monogamy - Answer each partner is married only to one other partner at a given time polygamy - Answer an individual is married to more than one person at a given time serial monogamy - Answer individuals marry several people, but only one at a time polygyny - Answer a male is married to more than one woman at a given time example- Mormons what does the Quran say about marriage - Answer In Islam, society accepts polygyny but if you are afraid you can'...

animism - Answer the religion that believes in the divinity of nonhuman beings, like animals, plants, and objects of the natural world atheism - Answer the belief in no deities cults - Answer religious groups that are small, secretive, and highly controlling of members and have a CHARISMATIC leader denomination - Answer a large, mainstream religions that is NOT sponsored by the state ecclesia - Answer a religion that is considered the STATE RELIGION e...

Sound bites - Answer short clips of a political speech lasting fifteen seconds or less. Gerrymandering - Answer Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. special interest group - Answer organization formed expressly to raise and spend money in order to influence elected officials and public opinion welfare state - Answer Many European nations have institutionalized social rights: Standard of living, healthcare, ...

1. Greater demand for inexpensive products and various services are characteristics of what? - Answer Consumer society 2. The Sherman Antitrust Act was to put an end to what form of capitalism? - Answer Monopoly Capitalism 3. What kind of economy is based only on the use value of goods? - Answer Subsistence Economy 4. High inequality results in what form of capitalism? - Answer Corporate capitalism 5. The former Soviet Union established an economy of what type...

social stratification - Answer the social ranking of individuals and groups into higher and lower positions within a social structure according to cultural, political, or economic criteria. ex: feudal castes, Caste System in India class system - Answer an economically based system of stratification characterized by relative categorization and somewhat loose social mobility. america's social structure problem with the class system - Answer the conventional model is vagu...

sociological paradigm - Answer a set of assumptions about what is most important in society and about the dynamics of how the social world works. true - Answer T/F: marxism is a type of paradigm functionalism - Answer the theory that institutions and processes in society exist to meet some need of society and thereby keep society operating and in existence three major steps to the logic of functionalism - Answer 1. society is made up of connected parts 2. societ...

Near Group - Answer Yablonsky described the street gang as a what? Primary Group - Answer There are diffuse relationships in what kind of group? Charles Horton Cooley - Answer Who first described the primary group and secondary group ideal types? Level of Analysis - Answer The size and scope of the things that are studied in a science is its what? Expressive - Answer Relationships which involve a lot of emotion are described as being what? Institution...

What was the social, economic, and political organization of the Premodern world? - Answer Feudalism Tönnies saw that the contract represents the characteristics of what kind of society? - Answer Gesellschaft What philosophy observes directly the laws by which things work? - Answer Positivism In what kind of society do individuals base their decisions on thought and reason? - Answer Modern When people in a society no longer believe in supernatural beings, the...