Sociology

Sociology Study Guide

Activity 2: 1. A family is a group of individuals who are related in some way, live together for a significant amount of time, care for offspring, and form an economic unit. 2. Marriage breaks down because of stress, the end of romantic love, the changing role of women, and sexual permissiveness. 3. In the American educational system, free elementary, middle, and high school education is available. It is also considered to be a tool to solve social problems. 4. Self-fulfilling prophecy is making a prediction and acting as if that prediction were already true; such actions produce the predicted results. Treating a child as a failure is an example. 5. Ecclesia, denomination, sect, and cult are the four types of religious organization. 6. Max Weber identified three types of authority – traditional, legal- rational, and charismatic. 7. The most significant forms of government in the modern world are authoritarian, totalitarian, and democratic. 8. The five classifications of disease are: endemic, epidemic, pandemic, acute, chronic. 9. Ownership can be community, private, or public. Fertility involves the actual average of babies born every year per female of child-bearing age. Fecundity is an estimate of the maximum child-bearing potential of each. 3. 1: High birth & death rate: no birth control or medical aid 2: High birth & low death: medical aid improves 4. Immigrants are people who are moving into a country. Emigrants are those moving out of a country. Chapter 7: Activity 1: 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. A Activity 2: 1. Collective behavior is the spontaneous actions of people attempting to work out common responses to ambiguous situations that are unpredictable, unstructured, and unstable. 2. When environmental factors, a lack of norms, conflicting values or norms, relative deprivation, and a breakdown of social control exist, collective behavior is almost certain. Chapter 6: Activity 1: 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. C Activity 2: 1. Urbanization is the process of people moving from rural areas into cities. 2.

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