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Sociology & Social Studies study guides
Society, culture, norms, and social structure — answered with context and comparison.
7 explained questions, each with the answer, a worked explanation, and something interactive to help it stick.
- Which of These Is True About Social Identity Groups?It is true that some social identity groups are visible or obvious (such as race, age, and gender) while others are invisible or concealable (such as religion, sexual orientation, and disability), and a single person belongs to many social identity groups at once.Read the guide
- Racism differs from prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of what?Racism differs from prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of power and systemic oppression. Prejudice is a biased attitude and discrimination is a biased action, but racism adds institutional power—a system of advantage and disadvantage based on race.Read the guide
- What Is One Difference Between a More and a Folkway?Mores are norms tied to morality whose violation brings serious consequences such as ostracism or legal punishment. Folkways are minor everyday customs and etiquette whose violation brings only mild disapproval, not moral condemnation.Read the guide
- How Is the Term "Values" Defined in Sociology?In sociology, values are the culturally shared standards or beliefs about what is good, desirable, and important in a society. They guide judgments of right and wrong, shape social norms, and influence how people behave and evaluate one another.Read the guide
- True or false: Groups have a common identity but not shared expectationsFalse. A true social group shares BOTH a common identity AND mutual, shared expectations, along with regular interaction. A collection of people who share an identity but have no shared expectations or interaction is a category or an aggregate, not a group.Read the guide
- The Term Secondary Deviance Can Be Defined As?Secondary deviance is deviant behavior that emerges after a person is publicly labeled deviant and internalizes that label into their self-concept. Described by Edwin Lemert's labeling theory, the label reshapes identity and social opportunities, causing the person to continue and amplify the deviant behavior.Read the guide
- How Is Reliability Defined in Research?Reliability is defined as the consistency of a measure - the degree to which a study's results can be reproduced or replicated when the study is repeated under the same conditions. It concerns whether a measure gives stable, repeatable results, not whether those results are accurate (which is validity).Read the guide