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24 Cards in this Set
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Social Stratification |
Social ranking of categories of people into a hierarchy of social positions Universal but variable characteristic of society, not a reflection of individual differences |
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Social Inequality |
Exists when certain attributes affect a person's access to socially valued resources |
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Intergenerational Mobility |
The comparison of adult children's social class to that of their parents |
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Intragenerational Mobility |
Status movement throughout one's own lifetime |
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Meritocracy |
A system of rewards based on personal attributes and demonstrated ability (related to achieved status) |
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Classism |
An ideology that suggests people's relative worth is at least partly determined by their social and economic status |
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Blaming the Victim |
A system that holds individual's responsible for the negative conditions in which they live |
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Culture of Poverty |
A fatalistic belief system held by the poor as an adaptation to systemic discrimination Poor feel marginalized, helpless, and inferior (hopeless) |
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Deferred Gratification |
The ability to forgo immediate pleasures in the interest of achieving greater rewards in the future |
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Closed System |
A social system in which status is based on attributes ascribed at birth |
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Open System |
A social system in which status is based on achieved attributes |
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Caste |
An ascribed system of hereditary class designation Virtually no social mobility is possible |
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Blaming the System |
A perspective that holds that systematic discrimination exists within the social system |
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Deindustrialization |
The transformation of an economy from one based on manufacturing to one based on services Different skill set required-- can impact employability and unemployment rates |
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Class Structure |
A society's economic hierarchy that categorizes groups of people based on their socioeconomic status Based on income, education, and occupational prestige |
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Occupational Prestige |
General consensus about the social value of certain occupations Influences interactions with others once it is known what they do for a living |
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Functionalist Approach to Social Stratification |
SS is functional for society because it ensures that key social positions are held by the most capable people (Davis-Moore Thesis) Inequality=Justified |
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Conflict Theory's Approach |
Classism is a manifestation of competition of those who have power and those who do not As wealth is accumulated in fewer hands, elites have more control of resources at the exclusion of the poor Inequality=Unjustified |
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Symbolic Interactionism's Approach |
How does class affect every day patterns of social life? Individual beliefs and positions will deem it unjustifiable or justifiable |
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Status Symbols |
Material indicators that demonstrate a person's social and economic position |
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Conspicuous Consumption |
The purchase of expensive goods simply because they are valuable, not because there is any innate satisfaction in them |
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Conspicuous Leisure |
The demonstration of one's high social status through forms of obvious leisure |
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Conspicuous Waste |
The disposal of valuable goods to demonstrate wealth |
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Feminist Approach |
How does the dominant male perspective permeate society's evaluation of what is valuable? The subordinate position of women is due to patriarchy and learned world view resulting from one's social class Inequality=Unjustified |
