Sociological Concepts Quiz

Broken Windows Theory = Theory that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes helps to prevent more serious crimes Critical Pedagogy = Educational approach that strives to help students understand and challenge the social injustices they face Social Darwinism = Belief that the fittest and strongest individuals and groups will naturally thrive in society while the weak will struggle General Strain Theory = Theory that suggests that people who feel strain or stress are more likely to engage in deviant behavior

Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka = Ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional Plessy V. Ferguson = Ruling that upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of 'separate but equal' Atlanta Compromise = Speech by Booker T. Washington that accepted segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans while focusing on economic improvement Reproductive Justice = Legal framework that advocates for the rights of individuals to have children, not have children, and parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments

Indentured Servants = Individuals who worked for a specified number of years in exchange for passage to the New World and eventual freedom Jim Crow Laws = State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States Eugenics = Pseudoscience that aimed to improve the genetic composition of the human population through selective breeding and sterilization Welfare = Government assistance provided to individuals and families with low income

<p>Jim Crow Laws = Racial segregation laws in the United States Plessy V. Ferguson = Supreme Court case upholding racial segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka = Landmark Supreme Court case declaring state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional Grandfather Clauses = Laws allowing people who did not pass literacy tests to vote if their grandfathers had voted before January 1, 1867</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural Capital = Non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means Internalized Racism = Acceptance of the dominant society's racist views, stereotypes, and beliefs about one's own ethnic group Economic Restructuring = Fundamental changes in the way a market or economy functions Reproductive Justice = The human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Critical Pedagogy = Educational approach that seeks to understand and transform oppressive social conditions General Strain Theory = Theory that suggests that a strain or stressor increases the likelihood of crime Social Darwinism = Belief that the fittest and strongest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die Resocialization = Process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life</p> Signup and view all the answers