Sociology Unit 2 Vocabulary

a reward or punishment that is given by some formal organization, such as a school or government

• rationalization

• formal sanction

• a bonus

• prejudice

this is an organic condition that results in the progressive destruction of brain cells

Match the following

• moving businesses and jobs overseas

• crime

• any act that is prohibited by law

• profession

• an action that rewards behavior

• positive sanction

• occupation requiring formal education

• unemployment

• don't have a job but looking for one

• outsourcing

process of legal negotiation that allows a person to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lesser sentence​ (a)  

• plea bargaining
• police discretion
• public opinion
• corrections system

a behavior that violates significant social norms

• crime syndicate

• negative sanction

• deviance

• cultural lag

a mark of social disgrace that sets a deviant individual apart from the rest of society

• stigma

• strain theory

• values

• tracking

Match the following

• high social status crime

• racial profiling

• a punishment or threat of punishment

• police discretion

• decide who is officially arrested

• crime syndicate

• large-scale organization of criminals

• white-collar crime

• assuming non-whites will commit crime

• negative sanction

the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children

the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others

• achievement

• aptitude

• self-esteem

• looking-glass self

a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a specific body of knowledge