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Sociology - E2 - P2
Sociology - Exam 2 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 & 6
Question | Answer |
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2 or more people who identify & interact with one another | Social group |
individuals with a status in common | Category |
collection of people who share a physical space | Crowd |
small social group whose members share personal & lasting relationships | Primary Groups |
large & impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity | Secondary Groups |
Social Group Leadership styles | Authoritarian Democratic Laissez-faire |
Social Group Leadership roles | Instrumental Expressive |
going along with your group | Group conformity |
obedience to authority researcher | Stanley Milgram |
Demonstrated that people will bow to social pressure in small group settings | Solomon Asch |
Most replicated study | Solomon Asch's |
group that serves as a reference point for making evaluations & decisions | Reference group |
group toward which we feel respect & loyalty | In groups |
those toward which we feel a sense of competition or opposition | Out groups |
a web of weak social ties | Networks |
1 relationship | Dyad |
3 relationships | Triad |
Rule – as groups grow larger there is ________________ | Less intimacy More stability |
biological distinction between females & males | Sex |
any of the body structures directly concerned in reproduction | Primary sex characteristics |
features that distinguish the two sexes of a species, but that are not directly part of the reproductive system | Secondary sex characteristics |
sex is more than physical, it is ___________ and ____________ | genetic, hormonal |
people whose bodies have both female and male characteristics | Intersexed |
feel they are one sex even though biologically the other | Transsexual |
personal traits and patterns of behavior that a culture attaches to being female or male | Gender |
norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives | Incest taboo |
Our cultural attitudes toward sexuality are something of a contradiction | Sexual Attitudes in the U.S. |
Sorokin’s Cyclical Theory of Social Change | Ideational – Idealistic - Sensate |
who set the stage for the Sexual Revolution? | Alfred Kinsey |
person’s romantic & emotional attraction to another person | Sexual orientation |
attraction to someone of the other sex | Heterosexuality |
attraction to someone of the same sex | Homosexuality |
to people of either/both sexes | Bisexuality |
no sexual attraction | Asexuality |
People in any society attach meanings to sexual activity | Society (Nurture)/ sexual orientation |
Sexual orientation is innate | Biology (Nature)/ sexual orientation |
Homosexuality was not an illness but “a form of sexual behavior” | 1973 – American Psychiatric Association (APA) |
discomfort over close personal interaction with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual | Homophobia |
_________ birth rate to teens higher than all other high-income nations | U.S. |
Sexually explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal | Pornography |
Pornography defined as: | Violates “community standards” of decency, Lacks “redeeming social value” |
penetration without consent | RAPE/Sexual Assault |
Depend on sexuality for reproduction, Regulation of sexuality, Function of prostitution | Structural-Functional |
Approach shows how sexuality reflects and perpetuates patterns of social inequality | Social Conflict |