Vocabulary 1.2

Question 1

Patriarchy

Answer 1

A system in which men hold more power and privilege than women. Men make the decisions

Question 2

Structuralist

Answer 2

how social structure and systems influence human behavior
(idea that human behavior can be understood by looking at patterns, rules, and relationships)

Question 3

Determinism

Answer 3

your actions and life are determined by outside factors. Everything that happens is the result of prior states of affairs

Question 4

Symbolic Interactionist

Answer 4

When you are interacting with others and change your self concept and values because of the person or people you meet

Question 5

Microsociology

Answer 5

Deals with people’s daily social interactions, the study of small systems of social behavior

Question 6

Macrosociology

Answer 6

Studies large scale social systems and populations and how these systems influence human societies

Question 7

Ideology

Answer 7

An opinion or belief of someone or a group

Question 8

Forces of production

Answer 8

Combination of human labor power and the means of production which are used to modify raw materials into goods and services.
Ex: Machinery and labor

Question 9

Marxism

Answer 9

Describes the capitalist system
you don’t have therefore you will never be successful and money

Question 10

Deviance

Answer 10

The study of behaviors that break social norms and whether is formal or informal

Question 11

Social Class

Answer 11

People with a similar status in society
Ex: Upperclass and lower class

Question 12

Functionalism

Answer 12

All aspects of society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society
Ex: Family and government

Question 13

Power

Answer 13

When you have the ability to control peoples actions, behaviors, and beliefs
Ex: Fame and authority

Question 14

Force

Answer 14

When you push someone to do something
Ex: Peer pressure and Threats

Question 15

State of Apparatuses

Answer 15

Institutions that spread bourgeois ideology and ensure that the proletariat is in a state of false class consciousness
Ex: The army and government

Question 16

Marginalization

Answer 16

hen you are treating someone or something badly or when certain groups or people get denied access to areas of society (social exclusion)
Ex:racist and excluding someone cause of their gender

Question 17

Non-conformity

Answer 17

When someone intentional acts in ways that go against the accepted social norms

Question 18

Under-socialization

Answer 18

A process in which people are taught how to become members of a society

Question 19

Neo marxism

Answer 19

A sociological process that focuses on social equality and with those of limited liberty while also talking about freedom within a capitalist society

Question 20

Resistance

Answer 20

A way of challenging policies, laws, or social norms that are perceived as unjust or oppressive
Ex: LGBTQ social movements and labor unions organizing strikes against unfair

Question 21

Social identity

Answer 21

Peoples self-categorizations in relation to their group memberships

Question 22

Working class

Answer 22

A type of class who typically have low-paying and low-skill labor jobs

Question 23

Upper class

Answer 23

A type of class that has the greatest wealth paying jobs and have the most power out of all classes

Question 24

Middle class

Answer 24

Type of class that is in between middle and working class. Not to rich but not to poor

Question 25

Cultural deprivation

Answer 25

A theory that says that lower class people are more culturally deprived compared to those from higher classes

Question 26

Age cohort

Answer 26

A group of people born in the same generation