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Sociology Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tendency for individuals to marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own. | homogamy |
| Stage in which the primary function of dating is recreation. | casual dating |
| Any substance that changes mood, behavior, or consciousness. | drug |
| Form of social interaction between males and females that existed before the emergence of dating. | courtship |
| Stage in life that generally includes the ages between 13 and 21. | adolescence |
| Express purpose of courtship. | Marriage |
| Formal ceremonies that mark the entrance of young people into adulthood. | Puberty rites |
| Degree of attachment people have to social groups or to society as a whole. | Social integration |
| Social factor that triggers “copycat” suicides. | Cluster effect |
| Crime committed by an individual or individuals in the course of their professional lives. | white collar crime |
| Theory that focuses on how individuals come to be labeled as deviant. | labeling theory |
| Repeated criminal behavior. | recidivism |
| Mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apartfrom the rest of society. | stigma |
| Theory that suggests that people who commits deviant acts have weak ties to the community. | Control |
| Behavior that violates significant social norms | deviance |
| Theory that views deviance as learned behavior. | cultural - transmission |
| The highest teenage birth rate is found | America |
| Men paid the expenses of the dates themselves under this system of dating | traditional system |
| being labeled as deviant and accepting the label as true is called. | secondary deviance |
| situation that occurs when the norms of society are unclear | anomie |
| Nonconformity that goes undetected | primary deviance |
| mode of adaptation used by beggars and hermits | retreatism |
| views deviance as the result of competition | conflict theory |
| A large scale organization of professional criminals | crime syndicate |
| Neo-Nazis, skinheads are examples of | countercultures |
| Extreme self-centeredness | narcissism. |
| The ability to catch on to something quickly | aptitude |
| The method or manner by which research is carried out. | technique |
| Intensive study of a person,group, organization institution, or problem. | case study |
| Borrow ideas, act, beliefs from other groups. | Diffusion |
| Brings the greatest change in the shortest time. | Wars and Conquest |
| The group shared rules of behavior that tell people how to act. | Social Norms |
| The situation in which individuals obey the norm of the society because they have come to realize that the norms ought to be obeyed. | Social Control |
| A means of classifying people according to a shared trait or a common status | Social Category |
| Any group with whom individuals identify and whose attitudes and values they often adopt | Reference Group |
| The group that the person does not belong to | Outgroup |
| The relationships of doctor and patient | reciprocal roles |
| Nancy tastes a lump of clay | Sensory motor stage |