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35 Cards in this Set
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Institutions |
Collection of roles and relationships to form a social function. People and roles may change; institution barely does. |
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Institutions reproduce themselves & transmits inequalities throughout generations. Through material and symbolic resources |
Funtionalists - Unintended & dysfunctional consequence Conflict - Deliberate function |
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Annette Lareau |
Social location shapes family structures, 2 models of child raising Familial socialization produces other social structures |
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Concerted cultivation |
1. Parentactivity helps develop the child’s talents, opinions, skills, etc 2. Multiplestructured leisure activities organized by adults 3. Communicationthrough reasoning and negotiation 4. Parentsintervene at school on behalf of the child, train the child to do the same 5. Childfeels entitled |
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Accomplishment of natural growth |
1. Parentcares for child & allows them to grow2. Unsupervised‘hanging out’ with kin 3. Communicationthrough directives, not much questioning 4. Conflictbetween parents & school, feelings of frustration & dependence 5. Childfeels constrained |
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Education |
Socialize children, knowledge, unwritten knowledge, basic socialization |
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Division of Labor |
where tasks are specialized |
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The Second Shift |
Women work at homes in addition to their paid job |
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Scientific management |
Organizing work with the least amount of wastetime, energy, & resources through standardized training, detailedsupervision, & strict managerial control. |
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Alienation according to Marx |
creativity makes us human, standardizing our work is dehumanizing. We work for material gain and not personal satisfaction |
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De-industrialization |
created more work in different fields. Finance, technology, |
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Wage stagnation |
Productivity has increased, wages have not |
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Horschild : The Time Blind |
Rapid changes in family & work has created role strain |
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Individualistic Explanations |
Errors are blamed on the individual rather than a systematic error. We live in a meritocratic society in the U.S |
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Cultural Explanations |
Culture of Poverty - Poverty families adopt cultural activities that differ from mainstream activities prohibiting any upward mobility |
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Home - Ownership |
Denying blacks to buy homes in certain places, receive home loans, & low bank loans with unfavorable terms (Official segregation; redlining; subprime mortgages) |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
Over-estimating the effect of individual error under-estimates effect of situational factors |
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Institutionalized Racism |
Systematic social patterns embedded in policies oppress groups of certain ethnicities |
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Privilege |
Social locations grant unearned advantages |
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Usury |
Excessive charges of interests rates |
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Pay-Day loans |
Short term loans paid with the borrowers next pay check |
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Capilitatism |
Economy is based on market competition & private owner-ships Creates ownership; rewarded for good work |
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Marxism |
Economy is based on owners exploiting workers |
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Embeddedness |
Economic exchange is embedded into social relationships and institutions |
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Blocked Exchanges |
Items that should not be exchanged. Moral, cultural, religious violations. |
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Market Society |
Separates economy from social regulation. Everything can be commodified |
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Commodification |
Transforming anything to something that could be sold on the market |
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Citizenship |
Grants Civil, Political, & Social rights |
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Globalization |
Increasing connections. Social, cultural, political, & economical between all societies on Earth |
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The development Project |
Increase economic growth by using western countries as a model (Bretton Woods Institution) |
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The Green Revolution |
Transfers scientific advantages to advance southern conditions. Solves hunger & famine in post-colonial countries |
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Food sovereignity |
Ability for each country to determine its food production and consumption |
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Assimilation |
Settler's replace their behaviors with that of their new society. Migrant's identities change, the new society also changes. |
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Remittances |
Migrants transfer money back to a institution (individual/organization) of their country of origin. |
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The Nanny Chain |
Global system where women from poor nations work as a nanny for women of privileged backgrounds. |