SOCIOLOGY – Test# 3 Terms & Concepts
Chapter 12 - Education and religion
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Definition of education
Relationship of knowledge & skills to the job market
Manifest functions of education
Latent functions of education
Cultural capital
Tracking
Meritocracy
The “profane”
Animism
Conflict theory of religion
Ecclesia
Sect
Property tax-based school funding create big
differences
Chapter 14 - Health, Health Care and Disability
Health care
Medicine
Life expectancy
Chronic vs. acute illness
Holistic medicine
Conflict perspective of medicine
Nicotine
Factors that contribute to temporary or chronic
disability
 What is the most extensively used illegal drug in the
United States?
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Chapter 15 - Population & Urbanization
Demography
What 3 factors cause changes in populations?
Life expectancy
Migration
Malthusian perspective on population growth
Marxist perspective on population growth
Food supply and population: geometric (exponential) progression
Stages of demographic transition (there are 4)
Concentric zone model
Gentrification
Peripheral nations
Symbolic Interactionists exam the experiences of urban life as opposed to
structure
 Redlining
 Megalopolis
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