Final Exam

Question 1

Sociological imagination

Answer 1

An awareness of the relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives.

Question 2

Structural Functional

Answer 2

looking for the functions of things- society is made of interrelated parts that function as a
whole

Question 3

Symbolic Interaction perspective

Answer 3

(society is the product of individuals interacting with each other according to their own
perceptions and attitudes or trying to attach meaning to what they see, hear, experience)

Question 4

Conflict perspective

Answer 4

individuals compete for scarce resources such as power, money, prestige, control, etc.

Question 5

manifest functions

Answer 5

An intended function

Question 6

latent functions

Answer 6

unintended functions

Question 7

Sanction

Answer 7

A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm.

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

A tendancy to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represents the norm or are superior to others.

Question 9

Cultural relativsm

Answer 9

The viewing of people’s people’s behavior from the perspective of one’s own culture.

Question 10

cultural transmission

Answer 10

A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learne through social interactions.

Question 11

subculture

Answer 11

A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.

Question 12

counterculture

Answer 12

A subculture that deliberatly opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.

Question 13

Goffman’s presentation of self

Answer 13

Says we are all trying to present ourselves in a certain way in our interactiosn with others.

Question 14

impression management

Answer 14

Says we are trying to manage the way that peopel see us.

Question 15

Goffman’s Dramaturgical approach

Answer 15

Says that we have a ront stage that we allow people to see, and a backstage that we keep hidden.

Question 16

status

Answer 16

the social positions we occupy relative to others.

Question 17

roles

Answer 17

Roles that difer based on your status

Question 18

Ascribed status

Answer 18

A social position assigned to a person by society without regard of the person’s unique talents or characteristics.

Question 19

reference group

Answer 19

Any groups that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior.

Question 20

primary group

Answer 20

A small group characterized by intimate, face to face associating and cooperation.

Question 21

social network

Answer 21

A series of social relationships that links individuals directly to one another, and through them indirectly to more people.

Question 22

deviance

Answer 22

Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.

Question 23

stigma

Answer 23

A label used to devalue members of certain social groups.

Question 24

Five types of slavery

Answer 24

Chattel - ownership

Servile forms of marriage

child slavery

Debt bondage

Human trafficing

Question 25

Nuclear Family

Answer 25

A couple with their dependent children as a basic family unit.

Question 26

fictive kin

Answer 26

Treating someone out of your immediate or extended family much as you would a blood relative.

Question 27

endogamy

Answer 27

The custom of only marrying within a local tribe or community.

Question 28

exogamy

Answer 28

The custom of marrying outside a local tribe or community.

Question 29

Structural Functions of Family

Answer 29

Reproduction

Socialization

Protection

Regulation of sexual behavior

affection and companionship

Question 30

Marriage

Answer 30

90% of Americans will be married in their lives.

Question 31

blended families

Answer 31

step families

Question 32

Adoption

Answer 32

2,000,000 children in adopted families

Question 33

Foster Families

Answer 33

Has two goals, to hold the child until their family can be fixed and the child returns or until perminant adoption is found.

Question 34

intersexual

Answer 34

Being between the two sexes.

Question 35

second shift

Answer 35

the double burden of work and childcare and housework when going home

Question 36

social epidemiology

Answer 36

Studying disease and wellness in society.

Question 37

STDs

Answer 37

19,000,000 new cases of STD’s in America per year.

Question 38

Human Ecology

Answer 38

An area of study that is concerned with the relatuionship between people and their environment:

The environment provides the resources essential for life

The environment serves as a waste repository

The environment “houses” our species.

Question 39

Water pollution

Answer 39

2,000,000 plastic bottles thrown away every minute.