Statistics for Sociology 101- final study guide

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Definition	Term	% Correct
The patterns and materials of thinking and behaving	Culture	44%
Includes the networks, norms of reciprocity and manual trust that exist among and within a group and communities	Social capital	33%
The process of an individual or group learning norms and customs of a society through social interaction	Socialization	33%
Multiple Capitals	Built	22%
Includes factories, schools, roads, community centers and habitat restoration. Al contribute building other capitals for communities.	Built capital	22%
The process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one's sex	Gender socialization	22%
Unintended functions	Latent functions	22%
The landscape, air water, soil and biodiversity	Natural capital	22%
The ability of a group to influence the distribution of resources within a small unit, including helping to determine what resources are available and who is eligible to receive them	Political capital	22%
Formulized behaviors or actions the group members regularly engage in	Rituals	22%
Conflicted expectations between two or more statuses/roles	Role Conflict	22%
Socio-economic layering of society's members, according to property, power and prestige	Social stratification	22%
The causes and consequences of social behavior. Awareness of the patterns in how characteristics and resources are distributed	Sociology	22%
The top 1/5th of the U.S population had a household income over what (aprox)?	$100,000	11%
Close knit, don't go outside the group -type of social capital	Bonding social capital	11%
The ties between groups. Your network of people and resources- type of social capital	Bridging social capital	11%
The same measurements and weights	Calculability	11%
7	Careful documentation	11%
Monitoring people, organization of restaurant	Control	11%
Includes values, beliefs and attitudes that are passes along to us. Also "embodied" capital such as an accent.	Cultural capital	11%
When things become popular before certain things are set in place. ex. cars before roads	Cultural lag	11%
What all cultures have in common. ex: Dancing, body decoration, rights of passage, incest taboo	Cultural universals	11%
Purposes for Incarceration	deterence	11%
People are scared to go to jail, so they don't commit a crime	Deterence	11%
Minimizing the time taken on tasks	Efficiency	11%
5 key characteristics of Mcdonaldization	Efficiency	11%
The evaluation of cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one culture	Ethnocentrism	11%
The direct or connotative meaning of what's said	Expression given	11%
What could be implied from the given statement	Expression given off	11%
Consists of money used for investment rather than for consumption	Financial capital	11%
Decision-making by a group, especially characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to a perceived majority view	Group think	11%
When individuals in a group who act together without any planned action	Heard behavior	11%
The skills and abilities of each individual within a community	Human capital	11%
6	Incarceration for "public" order crimes	11%
Laws, deliberately restrict minorities	Institutional discrimination	11%
Theory: Multiple social identities combine to modify a person's status in society. Not all identities are equally influential. There is a "piece of the oppressor in all of us"	Intersections Theory	11%
Harm from trying to be efficient	Irrationality of rationality	11%
The chances people have to get ahead (opportunities)	Life chances	11%
4	Longer sentencing	11%
5	Mandatory minimum sentencing	11%
Apparent/intended functions	Manifest functions	11%
1	Nonhuman technology	11%
Longing for something in the past	Nostalgia trap	11%
Being able to know what you're going to get	Predictability	11%
3	Protect the citizens	11%
Pay for what they've done	Punishment	11%
Reasons for high incarceration rates in the U.S.	Punishment	11%
2	Rehabilitate the prisoners	11%
Conflicting expectations within a single role	Role strain	11%
Ideas about the world and how it works	Social construction	11%
Established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior	Social institutions	11%
Movement between different positions within social stratification	Social mobility	11%
Expected behaviors	Social roles	11%
Set of rules about how to be a good man	The man box	11%
Theory: If people get together and define it is real, then it is and it has consequences	The W.I. Thomas theory	11%
One does not always cause the other	"Correlation is not causation"	0%
People's capacity to make decisions	Human agency	0%
Focuses on social structures, problems and inter relationships	Macro level	0%
Focuses on individuals and their interactions	Micro level	0%
The degree to which those in a social system identify with it and feel bound to support it, willingness to cooperate to survive and prosper	Social Cohesion	0%
Relations between groups in regard to the hierarchal organization of status into the roles regulating behavior	Social Structures	0%
A quality of mind that involves shifting or combining perspectives in order to develop useful ideas about what is going on in the world	Sociological imagination	0%
A level or layer of reality. Constrains and coerces us in everyday life	The Social	0%