Notes

1. What is social interaction, and which paradigm is most interested in studying it?
2. Define status, status set, ascribed status, achieved status, master status, role, role conflict, role strain, and role exit.
3. What is the Thomas Theorem?
4. What is the "presentation of self" or impression management?

5. Define social group, aggregate, and category.
6. How did Charles Horton Cooley differentiate primary and secondary groups?
7. What was, and what was the point of Solomon Asch's experiment?
8. What is a reference group, and how does it affect us?
9. What is anticipatory socialization?
10. Differentiate in-groups and out-groups.
11. Define network.

12. Fifty percent of the nation’s property is controlled by what percent of the population?
13. List the four reasons why people perceive our "system" as equal?
14. Differentiate between ascribed and achieved status, and explain which has a greater impact on where an individual "ends up."
15. Define S.E.S. and know the three factors that make it up.
16. Know how much both blacks and Hispanics make compared to whites, and how much women make compared to men.
17. What is the "two strikes" theory?
18. Which protestant religious denomination has the highest income?
19. Know what percentages of the population makes up the four different classes.
20. What percent of the population is below the poverty line?
21. Explain the demographic characteristics of the typical poor person (race, gender, education, where they live, and whether they work).
22. List the four reasons why the health of the poor is worse.
23. Which political party is associated with the poor? The rich?
24. What is typically the largest stress on families?

25. Differentiate between intra-, and intergenerational mobility.
26. Explain the "Middle-Class-Slide-Effect."
27. Which sector (industry, service, etc.) of society is growing fastest?
28. Differentiate between relative and absolute poverty.
29. How many Americans face hunger daily?
30. What is the leading cause of death for the youngest Americans?
31. Know, in general, how much each twenty-percent of our society’s population has in terms of wealth and income.
32. What percent of all Black and Hispanic children live in poverty?
33. What is meant by the "Feminization of poverty?"
34. How many homeless people are there on any given night?
35. What percent of the homeless are mentally ill, and substance abusers?


36. Define race, ethnicity, prejudice, stereotype, racism, and discrimination.
37. Know and be able to explain the four theories of prejudice.
38. Know the generic and technical terms for the two patterns of minority/majority interaction, and be able to define each as well as specify problems with each.
39. Define segregation, and Genocide.
40. Know, in general, the different racial groups in the United States and some characteristics associated with each (fastest growing, etc.)

41. Define feminist, sexism, gender roles.
42. Who talks more in conversations?
43. Define what a "Pink Collar" occupation is.
44. Are women a minority group?
45. What are the three factors which account for gender disparity?
46. Define Hermaphrodite, transsexual, and transvestite.
47. How would a functionalist explain gender differentiation?
48. How would a Conflict person explain gender differentiation?

49. What percent American households are a married couple with children where the husband is the sole provider?
50. What three aspects make up the census definition of the family?
51. How would a symbolic interactionist define family?
52. Who does your nuclear family include?
53. Who does your extended family include?
54. Define endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, and polyandry