Ch. 18 Soc- Human Agency/ Soc. Movements

Front 1

social movement

Back 1

a collectivity acting with some continuity to promote or resist change at various levels in society

Front 2

Resistance movements

Back 2

The organized attempt to reinforce the traditional system by preventing change

Front 3

reform movements

Back 3

a social movement that seeks to alter a specific part of society

Front 4

revolutionary movements

Back 4

the collective attempt to bring about a radical transformation of society

Front 5

5 stages of social movements

Back 5

1.incipiency
2.coalescence
3. institutionalization
4.fragmentation
5.demise

Front 6

stratification

Back 6

a system of ranking individuals and families into levels that share unequally in the distribution of status, wealth, and power or other scarce, highly valued and cherished objects in communities and societies

Front 7

stratification (definition 2)

Back 7

the pattern of structured inequities

Front 8

social differentiation

Back 8

process of categorizing people by age, height, occupation, or some other personal attribute

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cultural difference

Back 9

the practices, traditions, symbols, and characteristics that distinguish one cultural group from another

Front 10

diversity

Back 10

the hierarchical ordering/ ranking of social and cultural differences embedded within out social structures, culture, and interactions which grant privileges and power to members of society w/ dominant characteristics and social sanctions to members of society w/ marginalized characteristics