Sociology Review for Final

What is the main goal of social justice?

• To promote inequality and discrimination in society.

• To prioritize the needs of a select few individuals.

• To maintain a hierarchical social structure with unequal distribution of resources.

• To ensure equal rights, opportunities, and resources for all individuals in society.

Family, school, peers and the media are the

• total institutions

• role strains

• agents of socialization

• role-taking stages

An extreme form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one racial group over other groups.

• racism
• Prejudice
• Discrimination

An image of ourselves based on imagining how we appear to others is called the

• generalized other

• nature vs nurture debate

• looking-glass self

• birth order

What is bias?

• An attitude or belief in a stereotype that affects our understanding, actions, and decisions towards others.

• An overly simple, unfair and untrue belief about a group of people

• Understanding that identities can overlap and affect each other.

Commonly held standards of what is acceptable or unacceptable, right or wrong within a Culture.

• Cultural Beliefs

• Multicultural

• Cultural Values

• Cultural Norms

Any physical or social attribute that devalues a person or group’s identity

• Deviance

• Label

• Social control

• Stigma

The approach to punishment that focuses on resocialization for the criminal is ___________.

• Rehabilitation

• Deterence

• Retribution

• Incarceration

Considered to be the founder or "father" of Sociology

• Auguste Comte

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

attacks based on a person’s race, religion, or other characteristics

• nonviolent crime

• corporate crime

• hate crime

• street crime