Question | Answer |
Judging others in terms of one's own standards is called | Ethnocentrism |
Group that is made up of people who are emotionally close, know one another well, and seek out each others' company | Primary Group |
Teachers and Students--Primary or Secondary Relationship? | Secondary Relationship |
How can Deviance benefit society? | Cause Needed Social Change |
What are some costs of deviance? | It can cause nonconforming behavior in others, it is expensive, it erodes trust |
This type of deviances refers to deviance as a lifestyle and personal identity | Secondary Deviance |
What is Deterrence? | Approach to crime control that discourages criminal acts by the threat of punishment |
What are the four types of crime control? | Retribution, Deterrence, Incarceration, Rehabilitation |
What is a social class? | A group in the population that holds similar amounts of the resources and share values, norms, and an identifiable lifestyle |
A widely held negative attitude toward a group and its members is called | Prejudice |
Acting on a prejudice is called | Discrimination |
Reference Group | Group whose norms and values are used to guide behavior and with whom a person identifies |
Three characteristics of Primary Groups are | Small Size, Face-to-face contact, & Continuous Contact |
Primary or Secondary Group? Our Sociology class | Secondary |
Primary or Secondary? A Family | Primary |
Cooperation | Interaction in which group members work together to reach a goal |
Which historical event prompted Jane Elliot to conduct her famous blue eyed/brown eyed experiment? | Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
In the Milgram experiment, which group gave the shocks? | Teacher |
In this experiment, the people took on the roles of prisoners and prison guards | Stanford Experiment |
What happened in the Asche Experiment? | People changed their answers to conform to the group |
Which group is most likely to be sentenced to the Death penalty? | Blacks |
The goal of this punishment is to resocialize criminals | Rehabilitation |
What is Conformity? | Behavior that matches society's expectations or norms |
Stealing gum one time from Wal-mart is an example of what type of deviance? | Primary |
Judging a culture based on its norms and values is called | Cultural Relativism |
What is a stereotype? | A distorted, exaggerated, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people |
Retribution | Approach to crime control that makes criminals pay for their crimes |
Incarceration | Approach to crime control that keeps criminals off the street |
What is groupthink? | going along with the group despite not agreeing with them |
What happened in the Kitty Genovese incident? | A woman was murdered outside her apartment with many witnesses but no one called the police. Caused by the bystander effect--everyone thought someone else would help. The more people at a scene, the less likely people are to call for help. |
Is there a difference between being deivant and being criminal? | Yes, being deviant just means not following the norms. Being criminal means breaking a norm that is also a law. |
Why is crime an economic problem in the US? | It costs one million dollars to keep a person in jail for life. Crime costs the US more than 400 Billion dollars a year. |
Why is crime a social problem in the US? | Need to discuss specific examples of how crime has impacted the people in "the Killing Fields of America". |