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Sociology - E2 - P2
Sociology - Exam 2 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 & 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2 or more people who identify & interact with one another | Social group |
| individuals with a status in common | Category |
| collection of people who share a physical space | Crowd |
| small social group whose members share personal & lasting relationships | Primary Groups |
| large & impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity | Secondary Groups |
| Social Group Leadership styles | Authoritarian Democratic Laissez-faire |
| Social Group Leadership roles | Instrumental Expressive |
| going along with your group | Group conformity |
| obedience to authority researcher | Stanley Milgram |
| Demonstrated that people will bow to social pressure in small group settings | Solomon Asch |
| Most replicated study | Solomon Asch's |
| group that serves as a reference point for making evaluations & decisions | Reference group |
| group toward which we feel respect & loyalty | In groups |
| those toward which we feel a sense of competition or opposition | Out groups |
| a web of weak social ties | Networks |
| 1 relationship | Dyad |
| 3 relationships | Triad |
| Rule – as groups grow larger there is ________________ | Less intimacy More stability |
| biological distinction between females & males | Sex |
| any of the body structures directly concerned in reproduction | Primary sex characteristics |
| features that distinguish the two sexes of a species, but that are not directly part of the reproductive system | Secondary sex characteristics |
| sex is more than physical, it is ___________ and ____________ | genetic, hormonal |
| people whose bodies have both female and male characteristics | Intersexed |
| feel they are one sex even though biologically the other | Transsexual |
| personal traits and patterns of behavior that a culture attaches to being female or male | Gender |
| norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives | Incest taboo |
| Our cultural attitudes toward sexuality are something of a contradiction | Sexual Attitudes in the U.S. |
| Sorokin’s Cyclical Theory of Social Change | Ideational – Idealistic - Sensate |
| who set the stage for the Sexual Revolution? | Alfred Kinsey |
| person’s romantic & emotional attraction to another person | Sexual orientation |
| attraction to someone of the other sex | Heterosexuality |
| attraction to someone of the same sex | Homosexuality |
| to people of either/both sexes | Bisexuality |
| no sexual attraction | Asexuality |
| People in any society attach meanings to sexual activity | Society (Nurture)/ sexual orientation |
| Sexual orientation is innate | Biology (Nature)/ sexual orientation |
| Homosexuality was not an illness but “a form of sexual behavior” | 1973 – American Psychiatric Association (APA) |
| discomfort over close personal interaction with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual | Homophobia |
| _________ birth rate to teens higher than all other high-income nations | U.S. |
| Sexually explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal | Pornography |
| Pornography defined as: | Violates “community standards” of decency, Lacks “redeeming social value” |
| penetration without consent | RAPE/Sexual Assault |
| Depend on sexuality for reproduction, Regulation of sexuality, Function of prostitution | Structural-Functional |
| Approach shows how sexuality reflects and perpetuates patterns of social inequality | Social Conflict |