Sociology Crossword

5. The process by which the majority of a population comes to live within commuting distance of a major city
9. A group composed of two people
10. A theoretical perspective formulated by Garfinkel that examines how people’s background assumptions help them make sense of everyday situations medicine
12. A political system under which the government maintains tight control over nearly all aspects of citizens’ lives
14. A law stipulating that only a first-born son could inherit his father’s wealth
15. Michael Harrington’s term for the tendency of the most industrialized nations to exploit less developed countries politically and economically

1. Crimes in which laws are violated but there is no identifiable victim
2. A social custom in which married couples live in the home of the wife’s family
3. Goffman’s theory that life is like a never-ending play in which people are actors
4. Wallerstein’s theory is that as societies industrialized, capitalism became the dominant economic system, leading to the globalization of capitalism
6. Karl Marx’s term for the owners of the means of production—factories, businesses, and equipment needed to produce wealth
7. A norm so strongly held by a society that its violation brings extreme disgust
8. A social system in which there is total separation of the races
11. Sociological analysis focuses on large-scale social forces
13. medicine A medical approach that involves learning about a patient’s physical environment and mental state