Soc: Final

Comprehensive soc... it's on the study guide

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Socialization begins @ birth & continues until?
Death
Rules regarding behavior that people in a culture find relatively insignificant?
Folkways
Culture enables to people to ??? & thrive in their environments
Adapt
Coca-Cola was originally derived from cocaine. Now cocaine is an illegal drug because...
What is percieved as harmful changes over time
Susan B. Anthony & MLK Jr. were both considered deviant & criminal in their lifetimes, but are considered so today. This illustrates that what we consider deviant & criminal
Changes over time.
A crime "committed by a person of respectability & high social status in the course of his occupation" is called...
A white-collar crime
The assests you own & control compse your
Wealth
Variations in wealth & income between countries is know as
Global inequality
In India society was divided into
Castes
The Nazi regime's genocie machine operated so efficiently parlty because it was
Bureaucratically organized
According to Darwin, human survival depends on
Cooperation & competition
Which groups in American society experience more evironmental risks than the average?
Minority groups in & poor communities
Increasingly, technological development has come under the influence of
Multinational corporation
Small groups that occupy the command posts of America's most influential instutions are known as
Elites
POV that US is a heterogeneous society w/ many competing interests & no one power center conisistently domination, is the main argument of
Pluralist societies