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Socio Economic Status
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Refers to prestige, honor, lifestyle and respect.
Associated with different positions or groups in society |
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What contributes to SES?
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income and wealth
educational background job neighborhood (area you live in) |
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Relationship Between SES and Health
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Level of Healthy Insurance
Good job (less potential risk for injury food that can be afforded neighbors time for leisure and exercise education aware of medical terminology |
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Impact of Education on SES
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higher education usually equals better jobs
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Weak Ties
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acquaintances or associates or contacts
people outside your social circle usually have better access to opps you weren't aware of |
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Gender
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built into institutions
social construction built into our system |
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Sex
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biological aspects that make someone either male or female
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Gender and the Workplace
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differences in pay
75 cents social issues |
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Gendered Institutions
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Catholic Church
Work Family |
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Job Alienation
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how structural conditions of work lead to worker's lack of power of their work and lives
expressed individually in the fform of industrial sabotage |
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Extrinsic Rewards
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high wages
benefits employment securiy opportunities for advancement |
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Intrinsic Rewards
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decision making opportunities
non repetitive challenging work autonomy self direction |
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Role of Employment in the Sense of Self
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society allows us to be defined by our professions
1st question someone asks is what do you do for a living big part of one's identity |
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Prestige (in relation to work)
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uniform
how much money education |
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Family as a Social Construction
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Ideal family is prescribed by the media
breadwinner/homemaker |
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Fictive Kin
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people one thinks of as family but they're not actually related to you
used in lesbigay kin work |
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Characteristics of Bureaucracies
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Division of Labor
Hierarchy of Authority Impersonality |
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Sources of Social Change in Society
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norm violation: deviance
technological advancements media: moves messages fast single dramatic event political groups: change in demographic social movements shifting population size environmental pressures diffusion from other cultures |
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Types of Social Movements
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Reform
Counter Revolutionary |
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Reform Movement
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Change
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Counter Movement
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Reverse change from the reform movement
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Revolutionary Movement
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change how we look at the whole institution
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Connectors
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People who know people and are spread in a lot of different areas
Use their weak ties |
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Mavens
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knowledgable about information
want to get that information out want to research it fairly social want to help others |
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Salespeople
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convincing: persuade you to follow their path
energetic: read people know issue in depth know why its helpful to you charismatic |
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Law of the Few
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80/20 Principle
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80/20 Principle
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eighty percent of the work is done by 20% of the people
people who do all the work are very social energetic and influential know a lot of people persuasive people look to them they are the connectors, mavens and salespeople |
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Stickiness Factor
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way to get the message memorable
idea of an infectious agent changes are relatively memorable |
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Power of Context
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we are more influenced by society than we think
environment also influences our decisions |
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Bystander Effect
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assumption that someone else will do it
atuned to our busy enviro enviro impacts our mood and our feelings |
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Broken Windows Theory
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related to the power of context
if a small crime goes unpunished people will assume no one cares and they'll commit other crimes concept of lowering the bar idea that if we take care of the small stuff the big stuff will take care of themselves graffitti art work fare beating big violent crime can be curtailed |
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Tend to overestimate people's absolute traits and underestimate the environment
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