Unit I – Section 1
______1. All shared aspects of human groups, including physical products and beliefs, values and behaviors.
______2. Norms that have great moral significance attached to them.
______3. Norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them – common customs of everyday life.
______4. Organization of written and spoken symbols into a standardized system.
______5. Group of mutually independent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity.
______6. Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right and wrong, desirable or undesirable.
______7. Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations.
______8. Written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government.
______9. Physical objects created by human groups.
______10. Knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes.
UNIT I – Section 2
______1. Sanction in the form of a reward.
______2. Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards.
______3. Sanction in the form of punishment or the threat of punishment.
______4. Reward or punishment that is given by some official organization or regulatory body.
______5. Extreme self-centeredness.
______6. Enforcing of norms through either internalization of sanctions.
______7. Rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms
______8. System of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a social group or by society.
______9. Common features that are found in all human cultures.
______10. Spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or individuals. UNIT I – Section 3
______1. Expectations of someone occupying a particular status.
______2. Status acquired by an individual on the basis of some special skill, knowledge or ability.
______3. Status assigned according to standards that are beyond a person's control.
______4. Socially defined position in a group or in society.
______5. Status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person's life and determining his or her social identity.
______6. Different roles attached to a single status.
______7. Situation that occurs when fulfilling the expectations of one role makes it difficult to fulfill the expectations of another role.
UNIT II – Section 1
_____1. The sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs and values that are characteristic of an individual.
_____ 2. The transmission or genetic characteristics from parents to children.
_____3. A capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
_____ 4. Wild, or untamed children.
_____ 5. The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society.
_____ 6. Your conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates you and your environment from other members of society.
_____7. The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others.
_____8. The basis of the socialization process. Allows us to anticipate what others expect of us.
_____9. The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self-identity.
_____10. The part of ourself that is aware of the expectations an attitudes of society. UNIT II – Section 2
_____1. Ages 75-84
_____2. Percent of the labor force unemployed but seeking work.
_____3. Organic condition; progressive deterioration of brain cells.
_____4. Study of aging.
_____5. Not having a job, but actively seeking one.
_____6. Ages 65-74
_____7. Study of the non-physical aspects of aging
_____8. All individuals 16+ who are employed or seeking employment.
_____9. Ages 85+
_____10. High-status occupations that require specialized skills, obtained though formal education. UNIT II – Section 3
_____1. The power held by police to decide who is actually arrested.
_____2. Nonconformity not considered deviant.
_____3.Process of legal negotiation that allows an accused person to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lighter sentence.
_____4. Nonconformity that results in the labeling of deviance.
_____5. Social scientists who study criminal behavior.
_____6. Crime that is committed by an individual(s) of high status in the course of their professional lives.
_____7. Repeated criminal behavior
_____8. Use of threatened or actual violence in the pursuit of political goals.
_____9. The practice of assuming nonwhite Americans are more likely to commit crimes than white Americans.
_____10. Deviance as a natural outgrowth of values, norms and structure of society.
_____11. Mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society.
_____12. Deviance is seen as a natural occurrence and conformity as a result of social control.
_____13. Any act that is labeled as such by those in authority, is prohibited by law, and is punishable by the government. _____14. Behavior that violates significant social norms.
UNIT III – Section 1
_____1. Category of people who share physical characteristics of cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment.
_____2. Unsupported generalization about a category of people.
_____3. A category of people who share inherited physical characteristics and who are perceived by others as being a distinct group.
_____4. Belief that one's own race or ethnic group is naturally superior to other races or ethnic groups.
_____5. Individuals who share a common cultural background and a common sense of identity.
_____6. Denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership.
_____7. Oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable generalization about a category of people.
_____8. Set of cultural characteristics that distinguishes one group from another group.
_____9. Practice of placing blame for one's troubles on an innocent individual or group.
_____10. The practice of assuming nonwhite Americans are more likely to commit a crime than white Americans.
UNIT III – Section 2
_____1. Belief that one sex is by nature superior to the other.
_____2. The number of workers for each person receiving Social Security benefits.
_____3. Specific behaviors and attitudes that a society establishes for men and women.
_____4. Treating illnesses with unconventional methods such as acupuncture, biofeedback, massage, meditation, yoga, herbal remedies and relaxation.
_____5. System in which men are dominant over women.
_____6. The use of health-insurance plans to help control health care costs.
_____7. Belief that one age category is by nature superior to another age category.
_____8. The phenomenon of the growing percentage of elderly Americas as part of the total US population.
_____9. The invisible barrier that prevents women from gaining supper-level positions in businesses. _____10. The level of women's income relative to that of men.
UNIT III – Section 3
_____1. Ability to control the behavior of others, with or without their consent.
_____2. Standard of living that is below the minimum level considered decent and reasonable by society.
_____3. Unequal sharing of social rewards and resources.
_____4. Respect, recognition, courtesy, or honor an individual receives from other members of society.
_____5. Ranking of individuals or categories of people on the basis of unequal access to scarce resources and social rewards.
_____6. Movement between or within social classes or strata.
_____7. Grouping of people with similar levels, of wealth, power, and prestige.
_____8. Likelihood individuals have of sharing in the opportunities and benefits of society
_____9. Most obvious dimension of social stratification because it is made up of the value of everything the person owns and money earned through salaries and wages.
_____10. Principal way in which the government attempts to reduce social inequality by redistributing money among various segments of society.
UNIT IV – Section 1 _____1. Marriage between individuals who have different social characteristics.
_____2. Tendency to marry individuals with socio-economic characteristics similar to our own.
_____3. Marriage with multiple partners.
_____4. Marriage with one man and one woman.
_____5. The set of norms that establishes and characterizes the relationship between married individuals.
_____6. Group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources.
_____7. Consists of one or both parents and their children. Family form most recognizable to Americans.
_____8. The form of family from #7 and grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
_____ 9. Network of people who are related by marriage, birth or adoption. The “family reunion” people.