Sociology Final Exam Review

Question 1

The belief one's culture is right

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Ethnocentrism

Question 2

Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society's systems or infrastructure

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Institutional discrimination

Question 3

Society is viewed as a groups competing for power

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Conflict Theorist

Question 4

A group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms

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Sanctions

Question 5

States that people have inner and outer controls that help them not deviate

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Control Theory

Question 6

Sensorimotor

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Jean Piaget

Question 7

The behaviors and attitudes that society considers masculine and feminine

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Gender

Question 8

Asserted that human behavior is based on unconscious drives

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Sigmund Freud

Question 9

The term "looking glass self"

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Charles Cooley

Question 10

The approved means of reaching cultural goals

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Institutionalized means

Question 11

Symbols that are combined in infinite ways that represent objects and abstract thought

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Language

Question 12

The economic & political domination of the Least Industrialized nations by the Most Industrial

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Neocolonialism

Question 13

People who share a culture or territory

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Society

Question 14

Having distinct cultural characteristics

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Ethnicity

Question 15

The ability to carry out your will, even over resistance

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Power

Question 16

The violation of rules or norms

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Deviance

Question 17

Biological characteristics that distinguish females and males

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Sex

Question 18

The division of people into layers of society according to their power, prestige, wealth, etc.

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Social Stratification

Question 19

Forgoing something in the present for greater gains in the future

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Deferred gratification

Question 20

The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor keep them poor

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Culture of Poverty

Question 21

Studied the development of morality and identified eight stages

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Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 22

Studied children and identified four stages in the development of reasoning

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Jean Piaget

Question 23

Proletariat and Bourgeious

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Karl Marx

Question 24

Theory that states people deviate or conform to uphold the names society has given them

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Labeling theory

Question 25

The belief that anyone can get ahead if they try hard enough

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Horatio Alger myth

Question 26

Movement up and down social ladder

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Social mobility

Question 27

The process in which people learn knowledge, skills, values, behavior, actions, language, etc.

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Socialization

Question 28

Freud's term for our inborn drives

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Id

Question 29

The mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels at work

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Glass ceiling

Question 30

Pre-conventional, Conventional, and Post-conventional morality

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Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 31

Term for the top people in the US who control political, societal, economic positions

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Power Elite

Question 32

Society is viewed as symbols whereby people establish meaning and communicate

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Symbolic Interactionism

Question 33

A norm so strong that it often brings revulsion

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Taboo

Question 34

Id, ego, superego

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Sigmund Freud

Question 35

The political, social, and economic equality of men and women

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Feminism

Question 36

The unintended beneficial consequences of one's actions

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Latent functions

Question 37

Major conflict theorist who analyzed class struggle for power

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Karl Marx

Question 38

Explained how we develop a sense of self using other's perceptions of who we are.

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Charles Cooley

Question 39

The intended beneficial consequences of one's actions

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Manifest functions

Question 40

States people deviate when they are frustrated to reach culture goals by the approved means

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Strain Theory

Sociology Final Exam Review

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Sociology Final Exam Review

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