Labeling Theory
Is the theory of how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them.
Hate Crime
A crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.
Beliefs
An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
Boomerang Kids
A young adult who goes back to live with a parent after a period of independence.
Monopoly
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
Stereotype
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Social Control
The enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
Socialization
The act of adapting behavior to the norms of a culture or society.
Roles
The function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation.
Caste System
A class structure that is determined by birth.
Wealth
An abundance of valuable possessions or money.
Race
A group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
Social Network
A network of social interactions and personal relationships.
Deterrence
The inhibition of criminal behavior by fear especially of punishment.
Duel-employed Marriage
A ?situation in which both ?people in a marriage or ?relationship have a ?job.
Scientific Method
A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
Open-class System
Is the stratification that facilitates social mobility, with individual achievement and personal merit determining social rank.
Society
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Income
Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
Looking-glass self
A social psychological concept, created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902 (McIntyre 2006), stating that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.
Positivism
The theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or derive logically from existing decisions, and that ideal or moral considerations (e.g., that a rule is unjust) should not limit the scope or operatio
Code of ethics
A particular kind of policy statement.
Religion
The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Laws
The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Minority
The smaller number or part, especially a number that is less than half the whole number.
Sociology
The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Correlation
A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things.