Sociology final

A warming of the earth that  may change the globe's climate directly contributing to a disabling movement

The transformation of a human condition into a matter to be treated by physicians

A human condition measured by four components

A sociol role that excuses people from normal obligations because they are sick

An environment tht is harmful to health

T/f:Of the 3 demographic variables the migration rate affects the increases and decreases in the # of people within the global population the  most.
True False

According to the texts discussion the field of demography focuses

the incidence of childbearing  in a nations population

The functionalist view of education focuses on

Changes brought about by the affect of the baby boom moving through the life cycle are an example of social change caused by.

Thomas Malthus Theorem

since 1975 approximately howmany years does it take  the world  population to increase by 1billion

What is a pattern of growth in which numbers double during approximately equal intervals, resulting in an acceleration of growth during the final stages?

Which country  has the longest living citizens

talcott parsons made waht contribution to the understanding of health and medicine

What is the goal of environmental sociology

A population explosion usually traditionally occurs in the ___ stage

In a class there are 55 students all 18years old thay comprise a___

The inabillity to meet the basic necessities of life is called being in

A catagory of people who share cultural elements in a common such as language, national origin, andreligion

Treating individuals unequally and unjustly on the basis of their group memberships

The process by which minorities shed their cultural differences and blend in with the dominant group

the division of a population into ranked categories with different levels of access to scarce and valued resources

The overgeneralized positive or negative attitude toward an entire catagory of people.

Deviance is best defined as.

Change in an individuals or groups position  in a stratification hierarchy is known  as

A minority group is defined by its true ___of power

The term___ refers to prejudice, discrimination and hostility directed against preople because of their  age and was coined by the physician____

The life span for  humans is recorded as____

Term for unequal access to power, prestige, and property based on persons  sex

Practice the south employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called___

The ___ Theory developed by Robert Merton is based on the idea that most people want to attain cultural goals, but not everyone has the legitimate means of achieving them

Changes is society that cause large numbers of people to move up or down the social class causing one class to increase or decrease

Durkeims term for a condition in which people become detached from the norms that guide their behavior

What does it  mean when sociologist say that age is socially constructed?

Which sociological perspective is most closely aligned with the explanation that social security benefits came about as the result of a struggle between competing interest groups

Sociologist who believe we help to produce our own orientations to life by joining specific groups is most aligned with which sociological perspective

Erving Goffman used the term ____ to refer to characteristics that discredit people

How do theorist view the relationship between industrialization and the elderly in the United States

Prejudice describes____,while discrimination describes____.

Refusing to underage drink even though you want to be popular illustrates?

This statement best describes race

the belief that all social groups are systems whoe parts are interdependent is characteristics of?

Sociological Imaginations

_____ means that a researcher is successful in measuring what he or she intends to measure

The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was

Mark views society as a system of interrelated parts while john views society as composed of groups competing for scarce resources. Mark would be____ and John would be seen as___

Erving Goffman used the language of the theater to describe how people present themselves in everyday social life this is known as

The likelihood that a researcher will obtain the same results using the same measurements

the notion that language determines our conciousness is the basic premise of which concept

THe process by which cultural elements become connected andmutually interdependent is called

tradition of saying bless you is ?

in the nature versus nurture argument regarding socialization the nurture component refers to

when entering college and having to learn new skills this is known as

people and groups that influence our orientation to life our self concept emotions attitudes and behaviors are called

the view that cultures have intrinsic worth and must be evaluated and understood

The spread of cultural elements both material and non material from one society to another

George HERbert mead considered this to be the most essential for an individual to have as a trait

He loves to dress up like batman and pretend to save Gotham city he is in the ___ stage

What concepts do sociologist refer to when they say that "society makes us human"

Beliefs and traditions are considered ____ by sociologist

Which sociological perspective is most closely linked to microsociology

____refers to the patterns of expected behavior attached to a particular status

Which method of research often leads the current researcher to question the manner in which the data were gathered, the accuracy of the data, and the training of the original