Sociology

What do sociologists call patterns of interactions between groups and individuals

Group dynamics

Connections between individuals are known as

Social ties

What is social stratification

The process of ranking categories of people in a hierarchy

During the Covid 19 pandemic, Tana had much fewer social interactions than before and she began to feel disconnected from society. Tana was experiencing

Anomie

Sociologist define ethnicity

As a group with shared ancestry or shared heritage

Which system of social stratification is apartheid an example of

Caste

What do we call norm violations that are codified into law?

Crimes

In the us_____ compromises legislatures, the police, courts, and prisons

Criminal justice system

______ refers to the tastes, habits, and expectations that children "inherit" or learn from their parents which help the, achieve material success in life

Cultural capital

What is the justification for harsh sentencing guidelines like californias controversial three strikes law

Deterence for future crimes

_______ association theory argues that we learn to be deviant from peers who are deviant.

Differential

_____ is an action or behavior that results in the unequal treatment of an uses of their membership in a racial or ethnic group

Discrimination

T/f: there have been many societies throughout history with no social stratification

False

_____ was the system of social stratification in the final stages of breaking down when Karl Marx developed his ideas.

Feudalism

The deliberate and systematic extermination of racial, ethnic, or national group is

Genocide

Solomon Asch ran experiments in which subjects were presented with this image and asked about line length. Other people in the room offered wrong answers, and the subject's responses were recorded. What did Asch conclude?

Group exert powerful influence on an individual

What term describes the tendency to choose romantic partners based on similarities in background and group membership?

Homogamy

Sociologically, what is the difference between a group and a crowd.

Individuals associated with a group feel a shared identity and have ongoing social relations

How is institutional discrimination different from individual discrimination

Institutional discrimination is more systematic and widespread

Which of the following is a form of stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of accomplishment and skill

Meritocracy

Which term refers to romantic, sexual, or marital relationships between people of different races

Miscegenation

Societies that encourage racial and ethnic diversity have embraced the value of

Pluralism

In the 19th century, American Indians who'd survived clashes with us were forcibly moved. This is

Population transfer

_______ provides most of our emotional support.

Primary groups

The criteria used by a social class system to stratify its members include

Property, power, and prestige

People attend high school class reunions and often compare their lives to their of their peers. This means that classmates are a _______ group

Reference

Which of the following is a factor that can lead to increased group cohesion?

Shared values

Robert Merton developed structural strain theory to explain why deviance occurs. What is the cause of the strain suggested by the name of the theory?

Strain between socially approved goals and the means of achieving them

White nationalism is the belief that a nation should be based in white identity, which is found in religion, politics, economics, and culture

T

Race is defined by sociologists

as a social category based on real or perceived biological differences.