Social Problem Final Exam

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________ is the systematic study of human societies.

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Sociology

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________ refers to people who live within some territory and share many patterns of behavior.

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Society

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_______ is a way of life including widespread values (about what is good and bad), beliefs (about what is true), and behavior (what people do every day).

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Culture

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_____________is a society’s system of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy.

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Social Stratification

Front 5

_________ are categories of people who have similar access to resources and opportunities.

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Social Classes

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_________ are skills, values, attitudes, and schooling that increases a person’s chances of success.

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cultural capital

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______ is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that society defines as important.

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Race

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______ is a shared cultural heritage, which typically involves common ancestor, language, and religion.

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Ethnicity

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_______ is the systematic killing of one category of people by another.

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Genocide

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________ is the physical and social separation of categories of people.

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Segregation

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_______ is the personal traits and life chances that a society links to being females or males.

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Gender

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_________ is the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women.

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Gender Stratification

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_________ (the rule of fathers) is a social pattern in which males dominate females.

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Patriarchy

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_______ is a social pattern in which females dominate males.

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Matriarchy

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______ are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.

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Norms

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_____ are norms formally created through a society’s political system.

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Law

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_________defines the legal rights and relationships involving individuals and business.

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Civil Law

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_________defines people’s responsibilities to uphold public order.

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Criminal Law

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_______ is behavior that causes injury to people or damage to property.

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Violence

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________ involves the unlawful, intentional killing of one person by another.

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Murder

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__________ involves the unlawful, unintentional killing of one person by another.

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Manslaughter

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__________is where no blame is attached to anyone.

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Accidental Death

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________ refers to a person’s romantic and emotional attraction to another person.

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Sexual Orientation

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__________ is a sexual attraction to someone of the other sex.

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Heterosexuality

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__________ is a sexual attraction to someone of the same sex.

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Homosexuality

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__________ is a sexual attraction to people of both sexes.

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Bisexuality

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______ is the social institution that guides a society’s decision making about how to live.

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Politics

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_______ is the social institution that that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Economy

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________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are privately owned.

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Capitalism

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________ is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are collectively owned.

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Socialism

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________ is the decline of industrial production that occurred in the USA after about 1950.

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Deindustrialization

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__________ is the expansion of economic activity around the world with little regard for national borders.

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Globalization

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____________ is a model of economic development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor societies by rich ones.

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World System Theory

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__________ is the process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economical control over another nation.

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Colonialism

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__________ is a new form of economic exploitation that involves the operation of multinational corporations rather than direct control by foreign governments.

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Neocolonialism