Socio Exam 3

Front 1

kinship (definition)

Back 1

a group of people who live together for support, sustenance, financial and mutual benefit (family) but are related by feeling (doesn't have to be by blood)

Front 2

inequality (social beliefs)

Back 2

functionalism - inequality is essential to preservation of society. (they like everything to stay the same). everyone works for the good of the whole and there is no advancing
herbert gans (a functionalist) says that poverty serves an economic and social function (we will always have a pooper scooper if there are poor people so we always need to have poor people)

conflict theorists - inequality is domination and subordination (someone has to be the boss and someone has to give in)

Front 3

function of a family

Back 3

def: a group of people who live together for support, sustenance, financial, and mutual benefit (don't have to be blood related)

(ithink she's askin just for the definition)


1. functionalists - families exist to meet the needs of society including socialization and regulation (behavior, education, sexuality); they provide physical and emotional care of family members; marriage exists as a contractual exchange of services; once society is disrupted, families break up; big families (more than 2 or 3 kids) usually work best

2. conflict theorists - family is a system of power exchanges and relationships; reinforces and reflects inequality of society; in the US a family is a producer of workers

3. symbolic interactionists - families are socially constructed and negotiated (when they tell you to do something, they tell you why)

Front 4

richest people - earned or not?

Back 4

majority of rich are born into rich families

Front 5

social stratification - (sociological perspective and definition)

Back 5

definition - different layers of society (class, income, location, culture, race)

it is generally fixed and hierarchical (conflict theory) - hard to move up.. more ascribed status

in class system, status is achieved; system has more movement

weber - life chances - born with higher status gives you more chances; sees stratification as multidimensional; looks at culture, political, etc. all together; talks about class status and party

socioeconomic status (SES) - one of the layers of stratification; also indicated by your job, education, income, where you live; "manager has more status than the dishwasher" (not just social and economic)

US has several classes but we usually hear about upper, middle, and lower; there are many such as "upper upper upper lower middle class"
upper class - elite - inherited or own multibillion corps
middle class - usually doctors, lawyers, professionals

gender is also a class (not M/F)

Front 6

attributes of low class position

Back 6

working class is above low class; low class has no money, no respect, no education (or undereducation), substandard food (high carbs, high starch), fatter (fatter people are at more risk for diseases), lead paint poisining (enviornment), shorter life spans

Front 7

prejudice (definiton + examples)

Back 7

def: rigid, unfair overgeneralization about a category of people (includes stereotyping)

Front 8

median income levels

Back 8

$55,000

Front 9

racial types - "scientific" definition

Back 9

caucasoid - white
negroid - black
mongoloid - asian

Front 10

definiton of cultural heritage

Back 10

where you get your culture from (ethnicity)

Front 11

endogamous marriage - definiton

Back 11

marrying within your group

Front 12

glass ceiling - definition

Back 12

against women .. women can see where they want to go but can't get there. They're not chosen even when they do get there.


ex: if a women becomes a doctor, patients usually would rather have a man as their doctor than a woman

Front 13

family as an institution

Back 13

families are present in all socities