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Sociology 101-UNLV-FRANCIS
FINAL EXAM VOCAB AND KEY POINTS
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2010

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Chattel Slavery
Definition
One person owns another
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Child Slavery
Definition
Common form of bondage
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Debt Bondage
Definition
Employers hold workers to pay debts
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Servile Forms Marriage
Definition
Women married against will/Prostitution
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Human trafficking
Definition
-movement from one place to another for forced labor
-Promise of job, but forced to be prostitutes/farm labor
-adopt kids and force to work in sweatshops
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Mob
Definition
highly emotional crowd pursue violent/destructive goal(i.e lynch mob)
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riot
Definition
social eruption that's highly emotional, violent &undirected (i.e Rodney King)
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Rumor
Definition
-Unconfirmed info about people spread informally (i.e word of mouth)
-thrives in ambiguity, unstable & difficult to stop.
-rumor about peoples personal affairs
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Fads
Definition
conventionalize social patterns people embrace briefly (i.e Pokemon, Justin Bieber)
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Fashions
Definition
social patters favored by large numbers, traditional style changes(i.e bellbottom pants, gladiator slippers, and V-neck t-shirts, etc. etc.)
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Public Opinion
Definition
widespread attitude about controversial issue, some have no opinion.
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propaganda
Definition
info presented to shape public opinion; not all is false
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moral panic/Mass Hysteria
Definition
Form of dispersed collective behavior by which people respond to real/imagined event often with irrational and frantic fear
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Panic
Definition
People react to threat/other stimulation with irrational, frantic and often self destructive action
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Disaster
Definition
Generally unexpected, causing extensive harm to people and damage to people
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