Sociology Final Exam Review (Chapters 12-16)

Medical options are not equally available to all Americans.

The transition from a predominantly goods-producing economy to the provision of services.

Pattern whereby wastes & pollutants disproportionately found in minority & poor neighborhoods.

A married couple residing together with their children.

Family fulfills particular societal needs to ensure consensus of values in society according to

Kinship system tracing descent through both mother and father.

The pluralist model interprets power as:

Providing sex education to teens only encourages them to become sexually active.

Type of authority stemming from long-established patterns.

Conflict theory interprets the family as:

Sexual identity refers to:

The process by which a community acquires the characteristics of city life.

Schools are an equalizing mechanism as everyone in the US has equal chance for good education.

The scientific study of the interdependencies between humans and physical environments.

Within education, tracking refers to:

Eugenics sought to:

The effect of teacher expectations on a student's actual performance.

The scientific study of population is called:

Workers dispersed throughout the workforce in different patterns varying by class race & gender

The systematic inter-relatedness of different tasks that develop complex societies.

We are taught what the appropriate sexual behavior associated with our gender via:

The strong identity associated with an extreme sense of allegiance to one's culture or nation.

Kinship system tracing descent through the father.

The transfer of a specialized task from one organization to another that occurs for cost saving

The whole network of parents, children & other relatives forming a family unit.

Population density refers to:

Sociology was worth my time to learn this semester & I now look at my world in a different way.

This theory emphasizes power & inequality that are a part of education as a social institution:

A social identity when a person is socially devalued because of identifiable characteristics.

The powerful mechanism in which applying a label has the effect of justifying it.

Condition of being employed at a skill level below what is expected based on training/education

A kinship system refers to:

This theory argues that the definitions of illness & wellness are culturally relative.

Automation refers to:

Capitalism is an economic system based on: