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Social Problems Test
Terms and definitions of Social Problems terms
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Functionalism | The problems have a function in society |
| Conflict Theory | Things exist because some have power and others don't |
| Variable | Term for something that grows sometimes but not every time. |
| Hypothesis | Educated, scientific guess |
| Spurious variable, you cannot control for all variables, A doesn't always cause B, no excuses | Why do we never conclude causation, only correlation? |
| Correlation | Two variables moving together |
| Social factors | Variables in our society that contribute to sociological behaviors |
| Social problems | Aspects in our society which large numbers of people are concerned |
| Objective condition and subjective concerns | Name two items necessary before something can be defined as a social problem |
| Sociological imagination | The phrase sociologists use to refer to the ability to see personal and individual problems in the context of society or culture. |
| Cultural relativism | Social problems are different in different cultures |
| Durkheim | Said we can study group behavior scientifically |
| Explain | Word closely associated with Theory |
| Theories | General statements collected over time that we can use to explain |
| Radical | Left wing |
| Reactionaries | Right wing |
| Functionalists | Everything in our society plays a function |
| Conflict theory | Focuses on that someone has power |
| Capitalist state | Name for government |
| Elitism | View that those on top have the power and control the rest |
| Power, domination, revenge, sex | What is rape about? |
| Sexual Harassment | Any unwanted sexual requirement in a condition of unequal power. |
| Jamaicans | Controls drugs in inner cities |
| Symbolic interaction | We understand society by studying individual relationships |
| Norms | Expected behavior |
| Normlessness | Don't know how to behave, not following the norms. Opposite of integration |
| Religion, family ties, family activities | Name 2 specifics to lesson suicide |
| Withdrawing from peers, making specific plans to die | Name 2 signs a teenager might be contemplating suicide |
| Type 2 | Said he was but he really wasn't |
| 1. Deny, ignore 2. Accept 3. Reorganize with person 4. Reorganize without person 5. Treatment 6. Reorganize if it works or doesn't | 6 Steps of reorganization of the family of an alcoholic |
| Radicals | Think we need to move from capitalism to socialism |
| Blumer | Symbolic Interactionist (name a person) |
| Merton | Functionalist (name a person) |
| Marx | Conflict theorist (name a person) |
| Someone to do the jobs no one wants to do, gives opportunities for others to serve, makes people humble | Functions of poverty |
| Stereotypical rapist | Preconceived that they are dirty and hide out in the bushes |
| Homicide | Leading cause of death in inner cities |
| Blood and Crips | Famous gang in LA |
| Merton | Created the theory of deviance. Has to do with Anomie |
| Durkheim | Created the word Anomie. |
| Anomie | People are more likely to commit suicide when not integrated |
| Role of violence, role of other interest groups, role of political figures, role of powerful organizations, role of the mass media | Relevant matters |
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