SOC 101 Exam Review

Formalization of recreation

Little league baseball and other organized community sports are examples of

Nuclear family

A heterosexual couple living in the same household and raising children is defined as

Food desert

A neighborhood where there is no grocery store but there are more liquor stores, convenience and drug stores, and fast food outlets than most other locations

Monopoly

A situation in which there is only one individual or organization, without competitors, providing a particular good or service

Hidden curriculum

Lessons that students learn indirectly through the method in which the curriculum is presented and the way the school is organized

Epidemic

When the incidence of a particular infectious disease is drastically larger than first estimated

Propinquity

The tendency to date those within close geographic proximity

Endogamy

The tendency to marry someone of a similar background

Tracking

When students are tested and the test results are used to place them in a certain category of classes

Intentional communities

Groups that form communal living arrangements like communes, monasteries, ashrams and housing cooperatives

Acute

Ori went to eat at his favorite restaurant and unfortunately got food poisoning. His illness was treated right away. This type of illness would be classified as

Social institutions

Systems and structures that persist over time and help organize group life

Open ended question

The kind of question that produces a wide variety of responses by allowing the respondent to answer in whatever way seems appropriate to them

Authority

The legitimate use of power

Fourth estate

The media are considered the _______, like the fourth branch of government and thus serve as another of the checks and balances on power

Sociology

The systematic and scientific study of human society and social behavior

Reactivity

The tendency of research subjects to change their behavior in response to being studied

The magic bullet theory

This theory contends, "media consumers are passive, uncritical recipients of content"

Structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism

What are the 3 major theoretical perspectives that we have explored in class this semester

Disenfranchisement

When a government bars an individual, either temporarily or permanently, from voting

Pandemic

When an epidemic spreads across national borders, across continents, or around the world

Vector organisms

_____ carry and spread germs in geographic locations around the world

Recreation

__________ is a type of leisure activity