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____________ is a prejudgment that can be either positive or negative.

_____________ is using unconventional means (like crime) to achieve a culturally approved goal (like wealth).

What do we call the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and personal identities and learn the norms, roles, statuses, and values of their culture?

____________ are simplified descriptions applied to every person in some category.

The ______________ is the process by which people come to define a group as a race based in part on physical characteristics, but also on historical, cultural, and economic factors.

In a closed stratification system, __________ statuses are largely responsible for our social ranking.

________________ is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior.

________________ see social change as evolutionary.

An ________________ is an artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.

________________ are rules of conduct that guide people’s behavior in particular situations.