Test 2 items for SLU T/Th class

_______ is a powerful mechanism of social control used by primary groups tied together by personal loyalty.

_______ refers to the strategy of complying with the social expectations of the majority by creating a “front-stage” self-presentation while maintaining a different more comfortable and authentic “back-stage” identity.

_______ is a set of social expectations regarding behavior and attitudes based on a person’s sex.

_______ are specific strategies that people use to influence others in everyday life.

Police use their _______ to make people follow legal rules.

_______ is what occurs when a media company owns the different stages of production and distribution of a single media form.

True or false. According to labelling theory, some deviant acts are inherently deviant regardless of anyone’s judgment.

_______ is a set of informal rules governing interpersonal public behavior among poor inner-city black communities.

A party characterized by heavy gender segregation and student athletes is probably thrown by a_______.

_______ contends that biology, specifically our genetic makeup, almost completely shapes human behavior.

_______ is a widely held and regularly reinforced set of assumptions that generally support the current social system and serve the interests of authorities.

_______ refers to forms of knowledge, taste, preferences, and styles that high-status groups use to signal their status and to exclude others from their social circles.

List the 3 groups that compose the power elite.

_______ is a collection of people who suffer disadvantages and have less power because of identifiable physical or cultural characteristics.

Inner-city youths present certain types of clothes, jewelry, grooming styles, and displays of violence in order to acquire _______, which amounts to their share of respect.

_______ function to eliminate undesirable personnel and to encourage others to behave desirably.

True or false. For the same offense, a poor person is more likely to be arrested and, if arrested charged, then a middle- or upper-class person.

Global factories hire women overseas wherever they are _______ than men.

True or false. Credit cards encourage young people to spend within their means.

True or false. According to Becker, it’s possible for a scientist to be value-free.

The essence of _______ is that individuals through collective action are capable of changing the structure of society and even the course of history.

_______ is the ability to bring about an intentional outcome, even when opposed by others.

      _______ refers to the role of schools and teaching children the central values and beliefs of their society.