Sociology Unit 3 Review

What is the theory that inner & outer controls work against our tendencies to deviate?

What are changes in society that cause large numbers of people to move up or down in class?

What are expressions of approval for following norms?

The top 20% of American earn what percentage of the nation's income?

What does "wealth" mean to sociologists?

The concept of sex refers to _______ characteristics.

Type of sociologist that would consider deviance to be normal part of society.

What is upward/downward movement in a social class by family members from one gen. to the next?

What are violations of norms and rulesthat are written into law are officially?

According to Marx, what will workers do when exploited year after year by the capitalist class?

What are characteristics that discredita person's claim to a "normal" identity?

Theory focused on the significance of names/reputations given to people due to certain behavior

What is the largest minority group in the US today?

Associating certain work with one sex or the other is known as what?

What is a group of people withinherited physical characteristics that distinguish it?

What term refers to people taking the law into their own hands?

According to conflict theorists, those that own the means of production are _________.

System based on possession of money/material goods; can move up and down the ladder.

A large number of people moving up in class while another large groups moves down in class is:

What are ritualistic procedures intended to humiliate norm violators?

What is a system of beliefs that justify a particular social arrangement?

According to Weber, what defines social class?

Nations of the former Soviet Union & its former satellites in Eastern Europe are:

Prejudice describes _________________

How is the U.S. poverty line determined?

What terms reflects our cultural heritage?

What is the ability to control others, with or without their permission?

Which type of sociologist views law as an instrument of oppression used to control workers?

What term describes theinvisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to top levels of jobs?

Who was the sociologist who believed that class was made up on property, prestige and power?

Crimes committed by people of high social status in the course of their occupations.

What is the philosophy that men & women should be politically, socially and economically equal?

The systematic annihilation of a people based on their presumed race or ethnicity iscalled____ 

System where statuses are lifelong conditions determined by birth; based on Religion in India.

Marx's term for the exploited class the mass of workers who do not own the means of production.

Unequal access to power, prestige & property based on a person's sex is known as ____.

Sex typing is primarily due to _________.

What is the most common basis for social stratification in societies?

What are a group's usual and customarysocial arrangements?

According to Marx, how many distinct social classes exist?

A degradation ceremony that involves marking the deviant for everyone to see.

What is the greatest influence in determining social prestige?

Which of the following countries is an Oil-Rich, non industrialized nation?

Which sex's work is given more prestige in society?

What is the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested known as?

The division of large number of people into layers according to property power and prestige is:

What are a group's formal & informal means of enforcing norms?

Gender is an example of a ______.

Discrimination describes ____________