Society The Basics Exam 3

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(Begin Ch. 10)

Things society attaches to being male or female. Socially constructed. Shapes thoughts, feelings, and actions. It's subject to change.

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Gender.

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the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women.

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Gender Stratification.

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a form of social orgnization in which females dominate males.

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Matriarchy.

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a form of social organization in which males dominate females.

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Patriarchy.

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the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other.

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sexism.

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Gender Stratification in politics

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under-representation of women in political positions.

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attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex.

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Gender Roles.

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Women have the lowest social standing on which continent?

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Africa.

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Jobs traditionally done only by women.

Tend to be personal service oriented.

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Pink Collar Jobs

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Are there more men or women in college?

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There are more women attending college.

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In the teaching profession, does the share of teachers who are women increase or decrease as the grade level taught increases?

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The share of female teachers decreases as the grade increases.

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Percent of women working with kids?

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70%

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Why are women a minority?

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A minority is a category of people defined as different and disadvantaged.

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Women earned____to a man's dollar in 2009?

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77 cents

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The term that descibes women coming home from work and doing the majority of household chores.

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The 2nd Shift

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Barrier preventing women from being promoted.

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The glass ceiling

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the notion that women should measure their worth in terms of physical appearance

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The Beauty Myth

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Why is the presence of women in the military such a controversy?

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Women seen as nurturers instead of people who kill others.

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comments, gestures, or physical contacts of sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcomed.

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Sexual Harassment.

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The surgical removal of the clitoris. Practiced in Africa

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Female genital mutilation.

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looks at race, class, and gender. Multi-layered arrangement of disadvantage

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Intersection Theory.

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support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism.

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Feminism.

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Seeks equal opportunity for both sexes within the existing society.

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Liberal Feminism.

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Claims that gender equality will come about by replacing capitalism with socialism.

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Socialist Feminism

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seeks to eliminate the concept of gender itself and to create an egalitarian and gender-free society.

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Radical Feminism

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Resistance to feminism is most prevalent amongst which demographic of women?

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Women with lower income and lower levels of education.

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(end Ch. 10)

The____amendment gave women the right to vote in_____?

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The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

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(begin Ch. 11)

Socially constructed category of people who share biological transmitted traits that members of society consider important. Cannot be altered.

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Race

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A shared cultural heritage. Socially constructed. Cultural Traits! Can be altered.

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Ethnicity

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Racial Minorities

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typically have less income, schooling, power, and prestige

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Species vs race

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Human beings all belong to the same species, regardless of race.

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Measures prejudice amongst college students.

Shows patterns of people being more accepting towards minorities, excluding arabs and muslims.

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Bogardus Social distance scale.

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The fear of Arab and Muslim people.

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Islamophobia

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Where do Arab Americans emigrate from?

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North Africa and the Middle East

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Today, most immigrants come from where?

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Mexico.

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The largest minority in the US is______?

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Hispanics

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Where do most Hispanics live? What region of the US?

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Most Hispanics live in the southwest.

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The largest Hispanic minority in the US is______

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Mexicans.

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Most recent immigrants are coming from_____

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Latin America, NOT Europe.

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African Americans account for __% of the US pop. They tend to live in what part of the US?

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African Americans account for 13% of the population and live in the southeast.

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What is the largest Asian minority in the US in terms of population?

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Chinese Americans.

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Which States have a minority Majority?

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California.

New Mexico.

Texas.

Hawaii.

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Which states have the least amount of minorities?

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Maine.

New Hampshire.

Vermont.

West Virginia.

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A simplified description applied to every person in some category. May be positive or negative.

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Stereotype.

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a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people. refers to attitudes

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Prejudice.

(prejudice and discrimination reinforce one another).

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unequal treatment of various categories of people. Involves actions/behavior

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Discrimination.

(prejudice and discrimination reinforce one another).

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Bias built into the operation of society's institutions

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Institutional prejudice and discrimination.

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process by which minorites gradually adopt the patterns of the dominant culture.

Ex. Changes in dress, language, religion, values, and friends.

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Assimiliation.

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discrimination based on sound of voice

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Linguistic profiling.

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biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories

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Miscegenation.

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Why is the US not a truly pluralistic society today?

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Different racial and ethnic categories are unequal in social standing

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physical and social separation of categories of people.

ex. exluding minorites from neighborhoods, schools, and occupations

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Segregation

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the systematic killing of one category of people by another.

ex. extermination of Jews by the Nazis

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Genocide

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Position of Native American in the social stratification system.

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-They were here 15-30k years before europeans. -Social standing well below the national average.

-Red Skins is a racial slur against Native Americans.

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What year did Native Americans gain citizenship?

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1924

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(WASPs)

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants were most of the original european settlers of the United States, and many continue to enjoy high social positon today.

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White ethnic Americans

(end Ch. 11)

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non-WASPs who's ancestors emigrated from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. In response to prejudice and discrimination, many white ethnics formed supportive residential enclaves.

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(begin Ch. 13)

Social institution found in every society that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children

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Family.

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Recent Family trends

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People are having less kids for financial reasons.

Women wish to have more career options and a better life for their children.

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a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

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Kinship

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a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing.

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Marriage.

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Where are arranged marriages common?

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India and Sri Lanka.

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a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin; also known as a consanguine family

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extended family.

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a family composed of one or two parents and their children; also known as a conjugal family

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nuclear family.

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marriage between people of the same social category (class, religion, race)

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endogamy.

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marriage between people of different social categories (class, religion, race)

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exogamy

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marriage that unites 2 partners

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monogamy.

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Marriage that unites a person with 2 or more spouses. Where is it permitted?

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polygamy.

(permited in Africa and the Middle east)

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Marriage that unites one man and two or more women

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polygyny. (greek, "many women").

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Marriage that unites one women and two or more men

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Polyandry (greek, "many men").

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Largest residential pattern in the US. A residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents.

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neolocality.

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The system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations.

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Descent.

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a system tracking kinship through men

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Patrilineal descent.

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a system tracking kinship through women

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matrilineal descent.

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Recent parenting trends

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People are waiting longer to have kids and get married or not having kids at all. Singlehood is on the rise.

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Racially mixed Marriages

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Racially mixed marriages are on the rise and more accepted today.

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Marriage between people with the same social characteristics. (same interests).

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Homogamy.

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Created by the departure of a couple's children.

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The empty nest.

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Patterns that descibe many Latino familes

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-Enjoying loyalty and support of extended families.

-Taking out loans amongst family members rather than going to banks.

-Living in close proximity to extended family.

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The greatest share of female headed households is amongst which racial minority?

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African Americans

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What are the risks of growing up in a single-parent household?

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Poverty

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Do most married people report that they are faithful to their spouses?

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Yes.

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Divorce

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People are more accepting of it today.

75% of divorced people get remarried.

Individualism on the rise.

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Same-sex marriage in the United States.

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Same-sex marriage is not legal in all states.

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Family Violence trends

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Women tend to be both the victims of family violence and the offenders. Women abuse children. Offenders share one thing in common, being abused themselves.

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The sharing of a household by an unmarried couple.

(end Family Half of Ch. 13)

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Cohabitation