Sociology Questions

What term applies to the stages that people pass through from birth to death, beginning with "childhood" and concluding with "the older years"?

Our image of how others see us is called the ________.

"One's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it." This statement is most aligned with the concept of ________.

In psychoanalytic theory, the "culture within us" is represented by the ________.

The Smiths are going Christmas shopping for their two children, Dick and Jane. They plan to buy Dick a Tonka truck and Jane a Barbie doll. Their selection of toys for their children is an example of ________ by parents.

Without language there can be no culture, no shared way of life.

By definition, subcultures are a threat to the mainstream culture.

Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and "less fit" would die, thus improving society, in a master plan that he called "survival of the fittest."

Jewelry, art, hairstyles, and clothing each represent examples of ________.

Another term used for the stage of development called transitional adulthood, which is between the ages of 18 and 29, is ________.

The notion that language determines our consciousness is the basic premise of which concept?

The research of the Harlows demonstrated that the key to mother-child bonding is the ability of the mother to provide food and other nutrition to the offspring.

People from all walks of life, races, religions, and ethnic groups participate in the U.S. legislative process. In view of this, which term best describes American society?

According to the principles of symbolic interactionism, symbols not only allow relationships to exist, they also allow society to exist.

Sociologists have always agreed that the most important goal of sociology is to generate social change.

Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to focus on the ________, or large scale patterns of society, in conducting their analyses.

Functionalists refer to how parts of a society fit together to form a whole as ________.

When sociologists group people into categories based on their age, gender, educational level, job, andincome, they are trying to determine ________.

Studying the level of whiskey consumption in a "dry" town by counting the number of empty whiskey bottles in trashcans is an example of research that uses unobtrusive measures.

The corners of life that people occupy such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race are referred to as the social imperative.