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What refers to a small group characterized by intimate, face to face association and cooperation?
Primary Groups
What is the impersonal groups in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding?
Secondary Group
Any group or categories to which people feel they belong is called?
In groups
Any group or category to which people feel they do not belong is calle?
Out Groups
What is small enough for members to interact on regular basis?
Small Group
Special purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency?
Formal Organization
Component of formal organization which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency?
Bureaucracy
What is an interactive process involving people’s behavior?
Deviance
Who quoted “Born Criminal Types”?
Lombroso
Who said criminals are organically inferior to normal people?
Horton
Who described “Body Types” as mesomorphis-criminal
Sheldon
What focuses on personality development, motives, learning, and emotional states?
Psychological
What emphasizes that deviance is an interactive process whereby acts are defined and sustained as deviant?
Labeling Theory
What assumes that deviance is learned through the same process as other behaviors?
Sociocultural Learning Theories
What are the 6 types of crime?
Professional Crime
Organized Crime
White Collar Crime
Street Crime
Victimless Crime
Property Crime
What is Professional Crime?
Career Criminals
What is Organized Crime
Illegal Groups
What is White Collar Crime?
Crimes in business activity
What is Street Crime?
Traditional individual crime
What is Victimless Crime?
Willing exchange between two individuals
What is Property Crime?
Crime Against Property
What is a social position assigned to a person without regard for that person’s unique characteristics or talents?
Ascribed Status
What is a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own effort?
Achieved Status
What is the most extreme form of legalized social inequality?
Slavery
What are hereditary systems of rank?
Castes
Who said class differentiation is the crucial determinant of social, economic, and political inequality?
Karl Marx
Opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences is called?
Life Chances
What is a position influenced by individual achievement?
Open System
What social placement is based on ascribed status?
Closed System
What is the scientific study of the aging process?
Gerontology
What is a love and respect for the aged?
Gerontophilia
What is an unreasonable fear of aging that is manifested by hatred of or revulsion toward old people?
Gerontophobia
What is the distribution of society’s resources and rewards fairly across generations?
Intergenerational Equity
What is mutually benefiting initiatives that increases the cooperation between two generations?
Intergenerational Exchange
What age does one become eligible for full Social Security benefits and Medicine in the US?
65
What system is practiced in the U.S.?
Open System
Based on how people look and how they perform is called?
Functional Age
The highest number of years any member of a species has been known to survive is called?
Life Span
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