1. Trailer Park Boys
Trailer Park Boys

2. Trailer Park Boys- Sociology
Ten Key Terms:
Master Status
Language
Traid
Tradition
Crimes
Criminal Recidivism
Ageism
Folkways
Stereotype
Values
Material Culture

3. Master Status
Master Status: A status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life.

4. Trailer Park Boys
Ricky's master status is a drug dealer. He sells marijuana to make his income.

5. Language
A system of symbols that that allows people to communicate with one another.

6. Trailer Park Boys
Ricky, Bubbles, and Julian communicate by cursing and degrading one another.

7. Triad
A social group with three members.

8. Trailer Park Boys
Triad group consists of Ricky, Bubbles, and Julian. Who all stay together and try to be the best they can, and make it through the hard times with each other.

9. Tradition
Values and beliefs passed from generation to generation.

10. Trailer Park Boys
For the Sunnyvale Trailer Park, many of the residents consider one another a family member and they all believe and value the importance of family and being together, and always be respectful, even though it can be hard sometimes.

11. Crime
The violation of a society's formally enacted criminal laws.

12. Trailer Park Boys
Crime is not unusual for the Trailer Park Community, especially for Ricky who ends up back in Jail, at the end of every season.

13. Criminal Recidivism
The later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes.

14. Trailer Park Boys
Most times, Ricky and Julian do not learn their lessons, which only increases the likelihood of them going back to jail, which does happen after each season, because of a new crime.

15. Ageism
Prejudice and discrimination against older people.

16. Trailer Park Boys
Ricky and Jim Lahey have a increased age gap, and they always spew insults at each other. Ricky calls him names like oldie, and senior citizen, and other degrading words as do Jim Lahey.

17. Norms for routine or casual interaction.
Folkways
Norms for routine or casual interaction.

18. Trailer Park Values
A normal folkway for the Sunnyvale trailer park after succeeding or doing something beneficial that whole community will benefit from. The whole community will have a party and gets hammered.

19. Stereotype
a simplified description applied to every person in some category.

20. Trailer Park Boys
Ricky and Julian are seen as trailer trash and dope dealers in the community of trailer park called Sunnyvale. Many of the residents who live there are consider red necks and trailer trash.

21. Values
Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living.

22. Trailer Park Boys
Something that each character value mostly, for Ricky: weed and his daughter, trinity. Julian is his cup of liquor. Lastly for bubbles is his cats and his carts.

23. Material Culture
The physical things created by members of a society.

24. Trailer Park Boys
J-Roc is a rapper who's ethnicity is Caucasian, and loves to use his money from dope to buy materialistic items like a DJ board, new phones, new clothes, and new cars.

25. Work Cited: http://www.trailerparkboys.org/forums/