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94 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is a manifest function of reforming social welfare programs?
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reduced federal budget expenditures
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Mills
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helps people understand human society, and how it influences lives
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"Inequality is demonstrated through the importance of symbols."
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symbolic interaction theory
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study time determines the grades that a student earns
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grades are the dependent variable
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Symbolic interaction theory
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derived from the Chicago School
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fubctionalism
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Durkhiem
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Marx
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considered all of society to be shaped by economic forces
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Tocqueville, Martineau
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both were interested in the new culture in America
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Sociology
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study of human behavior
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Comparison between psychology and sociology
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psychology-individual
sociology-group |
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1st step in research
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form a research question
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Which of the following statements about research ethics is false?
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sociologists claiming to be value free
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Conflict theory
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a person's /groups ability to exercise, influence, and control others
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Most scholars see
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2 way casualties between language and culture
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Constant t.v. households
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42% in U.S.
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Popular cultures
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Opera not an example
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Dominant culture
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culture of the most powerful group
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Cultural Hegemony
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concentration of cultural power
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Saphir-whorf hypothesis
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linguistic-relativity hypothesis
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Functionalists
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see beliefs as a functional component of society
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sumner
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folkways and mores
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Symbolic Interactionists
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creates group identity from diverse cultural meaning
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Non-material culture
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ideas and beliefs of a group of people
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98%
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of all homes in the U.S. have t.v.
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Mores
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upheld by laws
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Postmodernism
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calls significant attentions to the artifacts produced in modern culture
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"Culture is increasingly connected by economic monopolies."
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conflict theory
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reflection hypothesis
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mass media reflects the values of the general population
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Ethnomethodology
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purposely disrupting social norms
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Values
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define what is desirable and morally correct
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Culture
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complex system of meaning and behavior
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A white American who sees the culture of the Navajo Indians as deficient because it is different from Anglo culture
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ethnocentric thinking
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socialization
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begins when a person is born
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Anticipatory socialization
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taking a class in preparation for becoming a father
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Mead
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children acquire a concept of the other during the game stage
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research on education indicates
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studying socialization in schools is a way to see influence of gender, class, and race
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Ausdale and Feagin
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young children use racial and ethnic concepts to exclude other children from play
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Mead differed from Freud
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judgement about when identity is formed
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U.S. formalized rite of passage
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has none
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Stockholm Syndrome
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battered women who are dependent on their abusers
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Piaget
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-assoc. w/ social learning theory
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"Age groups are valued according to their usefulness in society."
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functionalism
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Which of the following is the correct sequence for the stages in Piaget's cognitive development theory?
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what children learn in families is not uniform
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Feral children
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people who have been raised without human contact
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Resocialization
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radically alters or replaces existing social roles
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rite of passage
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graduation, ceremonies, weddings, and bar mitzvahs
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Chodrow
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women tend to have personalities based on attachment and orientation towards others
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Cooley
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looking-glass self
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Erikson
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central task of adolescence is forming a consistent theory
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Freud greatest contribution
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unconscious mind shapes human behavior
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sexual orientation
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the attraction that people feel for people of the same or different sex and is deeply rooted in a person
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sexual scripts
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are learned, gender-appropriate, sexual behavior
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deviant career
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are sustained through people’s reactions, and how deviants experience career mobility.
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social differentiation
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how statuses in any group, organization, or society develop
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status attainment
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a process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system
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poverty line
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is the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a household
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income
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money received in a certain period
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wealth
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(net worth) total value of what one owns minus debt
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social mobility
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a person's movement over time from one class to another
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cultural pluralism
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pattern by which groups maintain their distinctive culture and history
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sexual orientation
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the attraction that people feel for people of the same or different sex and is deeply rooted in a person
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sexual scripts
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are learned, gender-appropriate, sexual behavior
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deviant career
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are sustained through people’s reactions, and how deviants experience career mobility.
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social differentiation
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how statuses in any group, organization, or society develop
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status attainment
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the process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system.
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poverty line
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the figure established by the government to indicate the amount of money needed to support the basic household
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income
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money received in a certain period
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wealth
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the monetary value of what someone actually owns minus debts
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cultural pluralism
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different racial groups co-existing side by side without one taking on the identity of the other.
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coming out
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the process of defining oneself as gay or lesbian
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sexual politics
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link between sexuality and power, not just within individual relationships.
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heterosexism
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is institutionalized as the only socially legitimate sexual orientation and is reinforced as such through social norms and sanctions
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eugenics
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a social movement in the early 20th century that sought to apply scientific principles of the genetic selection to "improve" of offspring of the human race
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credentialism
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the insistence upon educational credentials only for their own sake
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AMA
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founded in 1847
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social epidemiology
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studies the effects of social, cultural, temporal, and regional factors in disease and health. Important factors influencing health and disease are: race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and age.
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medicare/medicaid
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indirect payment by third parties such as private insurers and government programs
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selye
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father of stress
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Private LIfe stressors
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-home events, daily hassles, adjusting to life changing events, sleep nutrition
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Psychosocial stressors
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-linking of internal stress & external conditions
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polarization shift
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(risky shift) the tendency for group members to engage in riskier behavior than they would while alone
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deviant career
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Continuing to be labeled as a deviant even after the initial deviance may have passed
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academic stressors
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personal goals, scheduled classes, heavy workload
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hyper-segregation
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geographical segregation
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organizational stressors
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banking, A-building, health center, i lab
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environmental stressors
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health(swine flu), weather, classroom cleanliness, living adaptations
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meritocracy
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ones status is based on merit or accomplishments
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social interaction theory
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behavior between 2+ people given meaning
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microanalysis
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analysis of the smallest parts of social life
-social interaction theory |
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symbolic interaction theory
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people react to certain things because of the meaning they hold
-emphasizes face-to-face interaction, microsociolgy |
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Which of the following statements about sexual attitudes and behaviors is incorrect?
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sexual attitudes and behaviors are not gender specific
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epidemiology
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the study of all factors biological, social, economic, and cultural that are associated with disease and health
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queer theory
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queer or straight is the right way to go
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collective consciousness
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when a group of people have the same beliefs
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