SOCI 1301 Final Exam Review

The final exam will cover chapters 1-16 and in class lecture notes.

Theorists:
Robert K. Merton
Erving Goffman
Karl Marx
Ferdinand Tonnies

Theoretical Perspectives:
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism

Matching: Match the following key words with the definitions below.

a. Corporate Crime
b. Social construction of reality
c. Socialization
d. Culture
e. Culture Shock

a. Norms
b. Social Control
c. Subculture
d. Popular Culture
e. Cultural Transmission

a. Ethnocentrism
b. Family
c. Status
d. Ascribed Status
e. Achieved Status
a. White Collar Crime

1. __CULTURE___ is the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that together from a people’s way of life

2. __CULTURE SHOCK____ is the personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.

3. __CULTURAL TRANSMISSION___ the process by which one generation passes culture to the next.

4. __NORMS____ are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.

5. ___SOCIAL CONTROL__ is the attempt by society to regulate people’s thought and behavior

6. The term______ refers to cultural patterns that set apart some segment of society’s population.

7. ___POPULAR CULTURE___designates cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population.

8. __ETHNOCETRISM____ is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.

9. ___SOCIALIZATION___ refers to the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.

10. The___FAMILY__ has the greatest impact on socialization.

11. __STATUS___ is a social position that a person occupies.

12. ___ASCRIBED STATUS___ is a social position a person receives at birth or assumes involuntary later in life.