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31 Cards in this Set
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Ascribed Status
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What we are born into (female, Caucasian)
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Achieved Status
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What we have "achieved" what we have through choice (friend, athlete, dancer)
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Gender
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Masculinity vs. Feminimity
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Sex
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Male vs. Female
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Culture
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Learned and shared behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, etc
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Folkways
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Norms that members of a society look upon as not being critical and that may be broken without severe punishment
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Ethnocentrism
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belief that ones culture is better than another
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Cultural Relativism
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recognizing that no culture is better than another
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Multi-Culturalism
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many cultures existing in the same geographical areas without any one culture dominating
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Culture Shock
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sense of confusion due to exposure of a much different culture than ones own
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Cultural Imperialism
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cultural values and products of one society influencing or dominating another society
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Racism
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Set of beliefs claiming that ones own racial group is naturally better than another
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Discrimination
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The act that treats people unequally or unfairly because of their group membership
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Prejudice
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Negative thought or feeling about an entire group of people
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3 Valued Resources
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Power, Property, Prestige
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Socioeconomic Status (SES)
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overall ranking of people's positions based on their income, education, and occupation
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The 4 General Classes
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Upper, Middle, Working, Lower
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Most likely to be poor?
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Women and children (women 57%, children 35%)
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Horizontal (Social Mobility)
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moving from one position to another at the SAME LEVEL
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Vertical (Social Mobility)
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moving up or down the stratification ladder
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INTRA-generational
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(within) upward or downward mobility
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INTER-generational
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(between) one is better or worse off than ones parents
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Segregation
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physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups
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Assimilation
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process of conforming to the culture and dominant group (melting pot)
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Sexism
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attitude or behavior that discriminates against one sex, usually women, based on assumed superiority of the other sex
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Gender Stratification
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peoples unequal access to power, property, and prestige
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Transexuals
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born with one sex, choose another
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Intersexuals
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medical classification at birth, is not clearly male or female
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Transvestites
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Cross-dress at times
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Heterosexism
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belief that heterosexuality is better/best/superior
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Gerontologists
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studyers of age
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