Sociology 101
Explore Sociology study guides, quizzes, and flashcards covering social stratification, deviance, and race and ethnicity.
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Challenges Families Face
Unpack the pressures straining modern families, from divorce rates and the cycle of abuse to child maltreatment risk factors and sandwich generation burnout.
Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Examine how sociologists define and explain crime through strain, conflict, and labeling theories, then trace how law enforcement, courts, and corrections process offenders — and why FBI crime statistics, racial disparities, and demographic patterns reveal as much about the system as.
Deviance and Control
Unpack the social construction of deviance through the field's most influential frameworks — Merton's strain theory, Lemert's labeling model, Hirschi's social bond theory, and more — covering how formal and informal controls shape who gets labeled deviant and why.
Deviance and Social Control
Unpack how societies define, label, and control deviance through key frameworks from Durkheim, Becker, and Merton — covering strain theory, labeling theory, conflict theory, and both formal and informal social control mechanisms.
Marriage and Family
Examine how sociologists define marriage and family across cultures, covering kinship systems, descent rules, family structures, and competing theories — from functionalism to conflict theory — plus contemporary trends like cohabitation and same-sex marriage.
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism
Unpack the distinction between prejudice as attitude and discrimination as behavior, then examine how individual and institutional racism operate, how stereotypes reinforce bias, and why reducing inequality demands structural change beyond personal belief.
Race and Ethnicity
Unpack the social construction of race and ethnicity — from the Thomas theorem and minority group theory to the prejudice-discrimination distinction and institutional racism — and see how conflict theory, functionalism, and symbolic interactionism explain these hierarchies.
Racial Ethnic and Minority Groups
Unpack the sociology of race, ethnicity, and minority groups by examining how subordination and power shape group identity, why race is a social construction with real institutional consequences, and how stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination work together to produce inequality.
Religion and Society
Examine how Durkheim, Weber, and Marx each explained religion's role in social cohesion, economic development, and class inequality, then compare ecclesiae, sects, and cults to understand how religious organizations relate to mainstream society and spark sociological debate.
Research Methods in Sociology
Master the four core research methods in sociology — surveys, field research, experiments, and secondary data analysis — plus key distinctions between quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Sex, Gender, Identity, and Expression
Unpack the distinctions between biological sex, gender identity, and gender expression — including how intersex conditions challenge the binary model and how cross-cultural evidence reveals gender as a social construction shaped by socialization and institutions.
Social Stratification and Inequality
Unpack the layered structures of inequality by examining slavery, caste, and class systems alongside Davis-Moore functionalism, Marx's conflict theory, and Weber's class-status-party model.
Sociological Theories and Perspectives
Unpack the core frameworks sociologists use to analyze society — functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminist theory — including key thinkers like Marx and the questions each perspective asks about power, stability, and meaning-making.
What Is Culture
Unpack the building blocks of culture — from material objects and nonmaterial values to folkways, mores, and taboos — while exploring how language shapes perception through the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and why ethnocentrism differs from cultural relativism.
What Is Sociology and the Sociological Imagination
Unpack the foundations of sociology and C. Wright Mills' sociological imagination, exploring how personal troubles connect to public issues and broader social forces. This pack covers micro vs.