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LSU Sociology 2001
With Kira Arthurs: Introduction exam 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2012

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What is Demography?
Definition
Scientific study of human populations
Term
What do Demographers do?
Definition
Examine sizes, composition, distribution, and the changes and cause of the three
Term
What is population?
Definition
A group of people who share a geographic territory
Term
The global population has grown rapidly since the
Definition
1800
Term
What is fertility?
Definition
The number of babies born during a specific period in a society
Term
How are birth mortality rates measured? What is it called?
Definition
By the number of live births per 1000 people in a population in a given year. Crude Birth rate
Term
What is Mortality?
Definition
Number of deaths during specified period in a population
Term
How are death mortality rates measured? What is it called?
Definition
By the number of deaths per 1000 people in a population in a given year. Crude death rate.
Term
In 2009, the crude death rate worldwide, as well as in the US was?
Definition
8
Term
How do they measure the death of infants? What is it called?
Definition
By the number of deaths amount infants under 1 year of are per 1000 live births
Term
What is the definition of migration?
Definition
Movement of people into or out of a specific geographic area
Term
What is the push factor? What is an example of it?
Definition
encourages or force people to leave a residence.
Ex: War, religion persecution, or unemployment
Term
What is the pull factor? What is an example?
Definition
Attract people to a new location
Ex: employment opportunities, religious freedom, and low crime rates
Term
What is international migration?
Definition
the movement across a nations border
Term
Definition of Emigrants?
Definition
move out of a country
Term
Definition of Immigrants?
Definition
moves into a country
Term
Whats the definition of sex ratio?
100=
95=
105=
Definition
the proportion of males to females in a group
equal number
fewer males
fewer females
Term
What is the population pyramids?
Definition
A visual representation of the age and sex structure of a population
Term
What does the population pyramid help demographer do?
ex?
Definition
predict the future needs of a population
aging population will need more health care
Term
Who created the Malthusian theory? When?
Definition
Thomas Malthus
1798
Term
What is the Malthusian theory?
Definition
The belief that the population is growing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it
Term
Population grows at a ____ rate while food grows at a ____ rate
Definition
geometric
arithmetic
Term
What do the Neo-Malthisians believe?
Definition
That the world population is exploding beyond the food supplies. Earth has become a dying planet with population and pollution
Term
What is the Demographic Transition Theory?
Definition
Maintains that population growth is kept in check and stabilizes as countries experience economic development
Term
The Demographic Transition Theory also states that population growth changes as societies undergo?
Definition
Industrialization, modernization, technological advancements, and urbanization
Term
What is stage one of the Demographic Transition?
Definition
Preindustrial societies with high birth rates and high death rates
Term
What is stage two of the Demographic Transition?
Definition
Early industrialization with significant population growth because of high birth rates but lower death rates
Term
What is stage three of the Demographic Transition?
Definition
Advanced industrialization with lower birth rates and death rates and a lower population growth rate
Term
What is stage four of the Demographic Transition?
Definition
Postindustrial societies with lower birth and death rates and population growth stability or decrease
Term
What is zero population growth?
Definition
when each woman has no more than two children resulting in a stable population
Term
What is Urbanization?
Definition
The movement of people from rural areas to the city, usually for better living conditions and jobs
Term
What created a surge in urbanization?
Definition
The industrial Revolution
Term
Metropolitan areas with at least 10 million inhabitants, are becoming more common
Definition
Megacities
Term
Movement from cities to the areas surrounding them. Percent of Americans?
Definition
Suburbanization, 60%
Term
Business centers that are within or close to suburban residential areas
Definition
Edge cities
Term
Area of new devilment beyond suburbs on the fringe of urbanized areas
Definition
exurbs
Term
What is Urban sprawl?
Definition
the rapid, unplanned and uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions
Term
What is job sprawl
Definition
she companies move jobs from metropolitan areas to the suburbs
Term
Urban and job sprawls are a consequence of?
Definition
urbanization
Term
What is the process of buying and renovating houses and stores by middle-class and affluent people in a downtown urban neighborhood?
Definition
gentrification
Term
What is the concentric zone?
Definition
city grows outward in a series of rings
Term
What is the sector theory?
Definition
pie-shared wedges radiate from central business district
Term
What is the multi-neclei?
Definition
city contains multiple centers
Term
What is the peripheral?
Definition
suburbs and edge cities develop through highway development
Term
Conflict theorist control the ___
Definition
law
Term
What are symbolic interactionists?
Definition
interested in the impact of urban life on its residents
Term
Conflict theorist think that
Definition
urban space is a commodity to be bought and sold
Term
What is behavior that violates expected rules or norms? Has a negative connotation in society
Definition
Deviance
Term
Deviance can be a ___, _____, _____
Definition
trait
belief
behavior
Term
Deviance is accompanied by a social stigma, which means
Definition
A negative label that devalues a person and changed their self-concept and identity
Term
What is the discredited stigma? ex
Definition
individuals who can't hide their deviancy or told someone
overweight
Term
What is the discreditable stigma? ex
Definition
deviant individuals who are able to hide it and have not told anyone
ex: drug users
Term
Violation of societal norms and rules written into public laws that is subject to punishment
Definition
crime
Term
A persons status is determined in a _____
Definition
closed society
Term
There are more arrest for _____ crime than ______ crime
Definition
property, assault
Term
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey? What does it include?
Definition
Based on interviewing people about their experiences
unreported crimes
Term
What are crimes that are least likely to be reported? Ex?
Definition
Victimless crimes
illegal drug use, drunkenness, gambling
Term
techniques and strategies that regulate behavior
Definition
social control
Term
What are sanctions?
Definition
part of social control, can be positive or negative
Term
The condition in which people are unsure of how to behave because of absent, conflicting, or confusing social norms
Definition
anomie
Term
What it the Strain Theory
Definition
people engage in deviance when their is a strain or conflict between goal and means
Term
What is conformity? is it deviant?
Definition
accept goals and mean; working harder; no
Term
What is innovation?
Definition
Accept goals but reject means; cheating on an exam
Term
What is Ritualism
Definition
reject goals but accept means; continuing to go to class after giving up on a career
Term
What is retreatism?
Definition
reject goals and mean; becoming an alcoholic
Term
What is Rebellion?
Definition
replace goals and means; opposing the government
Term
Who created the Deviance typology and strain theory?
Definition
Robert Merton
Term
Illegal activités committed by high status people
Definition
white collar crime
Term
Illegal activities committed by individual of their own interest; using a company credit card
Definition
occupational crimes
Term
Illegal acts committed by executives to benefit themselves or their companies; price-fixing
Definition
corporate crimes
Term
Illegal activities conducted online
Definition
cybercrime
Term
actives of individual and groups that supply illegal goods for profit
Definition
organized crime
Term
What us the differential association theory?
Definition
suggest that people learn deviance through interaction.
Term
What is the labeling theory?
Definition
deviance depends on how others react
Term
What is social stratification?
Definition
ranking of people who have different access to valued resources
Term
Movement with social position is limited due to ascribed statues in a _______. what are some ex?
Definition
closed stratification; sex, skin color
Term
Slavery and castes are ?
Definition
closed systems
Term
Social classes are?
Definition
open systems
Term
Open stratification is based on achieved status who have
Definition
wealth
Term
Open system = social class
closed system = slavery
Definition
true
Term
Money and economic assists?
Definition
wealth
Term
respect, recognition, or regard; based on wealth, fame
Definition
prestige
Term
the ability of individuals to achieve goals, control events, and influence others
Definition
power
Term
Characteristics of upper-upper class?
Definition
Enormous wealth, inherited, political power
million-billions
Term
Characteristics of lower-upper class?
Definition
Investors, executives,
millions
Term
Characteristics of upper middle class?
Definition
professionals, med size owners, lived on earn income
76k +
Term
Lower Middle class?
Definition
semiprofessionals, foremen, craftsmen, comfortable lifestyle
46k-76k
Term
working class?
Definition
clerical, retail sale, high school edu
19k-46k
Term
working poor?
Definition
low pain manual, retail workers, 27 weeks a year
9k-18k
Term
underclass?
Definition
unemployeed under 9k
Term
Not having enough money to afford the most basic necessities
Definition
absolute poverty
Term
not having enough mount to maintain an average standard of living
Definition
relative poverty
Term
Moving from one potion to another at the same level
Definition
horizontal mobility
Term
moving up or down the stratification ladder
Definition
vertical mobility
Term
What is sex?
What is gender?
Definition
biological characteristic - hormones
Learned attributes and behaviors that characterize people
based on social expectations
Term
a perception of self as either male or female
Definition
gender identity
Term
characteristics, attitudes, feelins, and behaviors that society expect of females and male
Definition
gender roles
Term
expectations about how people will look, act, think, and feel based on their sex
Definition
gender stereotypes
Term
Whats an example of gender roles?
Definition
women being nurturing and boys being tough
Term
What is the stereotypes of a gender called? whats an example
Definition
sexual scripts
girls = pink, Boys = blue
Term
discrimination against sex
Definition
sexism
Term
What is the gender decay gap? Reasons for it?
Definition
different income between sexes
women choose low earning fields, men are promoted more, mothers adjust to having children
Term
Born with one sex but choose to live their life as another sex
Definition
transsexuals
Term
medical classification at birth is not clearly male or female
Definition
intersexuals
Term
cross dress at times.
Definition
transvestites
Term
People attracted to the same sex
People attracted to the opposite sex
People attracted to both sexes
Lack interest in sex
Definition
Homo
Hetero
Bi
Asexuals
Term
C Right Mills is associated with the
Definition
Elite
Term
Edwin Sutherland created the
Definition
Differential Association theory
Term
The Differential Association theory states
Definition
through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior.
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