This 5-letter plural follows social to refer to platforms like Twitter that have changed communication

First communion can be this type of 3-word ritual representing a change from one role to another

Trobriand islanders trade these items important in the plots of Titanic & Anastasia

Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them

In 1977 the A.S.A. president defined it as a set of norms & values ...that sharply contradict the dominant ones

Of a third half or two-thirds the approximate fraction of American adults with at least a bachelor's degree

Also known as Generation Y this group of young adults was born between 1982 & 2000

Response rates for these a vital research tool of sociologists have fallen from about 30% to 10% in recent years

Sociologists now consider America more of a salad bowl than these 2 words for many cultures becoming one

Karl Marx said a capitalist system has 2 classes: the bourgeoisie which controls resources & this laboring class

Sociological term for a system with the mother as head of the family

Counterculture was a term popularized by Theodore Roszak to describe this decade's revolt against authority

This German social scientist co-wrote The Communist Manifesto & edited Marx' Das Kapital

This pollster founded his American Institute of Public Opinion in Princeton in 1935

In his 1899 work The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous this

Going from rags to riches is what sociologists call social this specifically the upward type

Expecting my son to be a cop & my daughter to be a nurse is assigning these sex-based roles

William H. Whyte put this word before think to mean conformity to consensus

A joint author on a paper or someone who assists the power occupying his country

A plant animal or object that's the symbol of a clan; it's often taboo & was paired with Taboo in a Freud title

This term for a rural white southerner was originally applied to sunburned agricultural workers

Robert & Helen Lynd based their Middletown studies on Muncie in this state

The sum of the customs & beliefs that distinguish one group from another; the hippies formed a counter one

10000 years ago all societies were these named from the way they collected animals fruit etc. for food

Someone who hates humanity; Moliere's Alceste turned into a title one