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One's caste and class is influenced by birth.

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Assume a country has a population of 400 million people and in a given year has 4 million births. What is this country current crude birth rate?

10

When did the first cities emerge?

10,000 years ago

At the end of 2011, the world was home to about how many people?

7 billion

What is dramaturgy?

A way to study interaction, in which society is a stage, individuals are actors with roles who manage impressions and present their "self".

We discussed three ways that poverty explained by the general public and by sociologists. List the three ways.

Blame the individual, structural, cultural: structural

What is Critical Sociology?

Challenges and Assumptions underlying sociology and its theory and methods.

Who coined the term sociology and what year?

Comte, 1838

The discipline of Sociology first developed in?

Countries experiencing rapid social change.

What is Professional Sociology?

Develops the content of sociology, theory,and empirical findings?

_________ is the violation of accepted cultural norms?

Deviance

The limits to growth thesis states that humans can expect to solve whatever environmental problems come along?True or False

False

__________ refers to very fundamental, institutionalized cultural beliefs that underlie our perspective and justify practices such as Social Stratification.

Ideology

Which is an illustration of personal choice in social context?

Laws and values in society, such as inheritance and monogamy, influence many dating couples to get married.

Which concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a persons entire life?

Master status

What is Policy Sociology?

Research done by sociologists at the request of and directed by the goals of a specific sponsor.

Which of the following is involved when a person has two statuses and the corresponding roles are contradictory to one another?

Role Conflict

Which of the following is involved when a person has one status, but the multiple roles attached to that status are contradictory?

Role Strain

________ states that people see and understand the world through language.

Sapir- Worf hypothesis

What is Public Sociology?

Seeks to bring research findings out of the university into the community.

The Thomas Theorom states that:

Situations defined as real are in their consequences.

________ is the attempt by society to regulate peoples thoughts and behaviors?

Social Control

Process by which people act and react in relation to others is?

Social Interaction

Which concept is used to designate the process by which people creatively shape reality as they interact?

Social construction of reality

Sociology is the systematic study of?

Society

Which theoretical perspective is most equipped to study culture?

Symbolic Interactionism

Social Stratification refers to a _____________ by which a __________ ranks _________ people in a heirarchy?

System, society, categories

The "founder" of Sociology explained that society had evolved through three stages. What are the three stages?

Theological, metaphysical, scientific

Which age category of the US population has the highest poverty rate?

Young people under the age of 18

Demography is defined as the study of?

human population