Across
- 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
Down
- 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