Sociology 3

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Who was the president that began HMOs?

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Nixon

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Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.

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Stereotypes

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Those minorities set apart from others by obvious physical characteristics.

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Racial group

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Set apart from others primarily because of its national origins or distinctive cultural patterns.

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Ethnic group

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A belief that one race is supreme and all others innately inferior.

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Racism

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A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.

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Exploitation Theory

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Exploitation theory is associated with?

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Conflict perspective

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Any arbitrary action initiated by an authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin, rather than on a person’s behavior.

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Racial profiling

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Interracial contact between people of equal status who are engaged in a cooperative task will cause them to become less prejudiced and to abandon previous stereotypes.

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Contact hypothesis

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The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some type of arbitrary bias.

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Discrimination

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What group in our society is the most likely to face discrimination?

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Black females

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A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial group.

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Prejudice

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The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.

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Institutional discrimination

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Rules requiring that only English be spoken at a place of work, even when it is not a business necessity to restrict the use of other languages.
Preferences shown by law and medical schools in the admission of children f wealthy and influential alumni, nearly all of whom are White.
Restrictive employment leave policies, coupled with prohibitions on part=time work, that make it difficult for the heads of single-parent homes.

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Institutional discrimination

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Positive efforts to recruit members of subordinate groups or women for jobs, promotions and educational opportunities.

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Affirmative action

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Cultural differences determine?

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Gender

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Biological differences determine?

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Sex

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Who are normally the first and most crucial agents of socialization?

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Parents

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5 examples of male gender role

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antifeminite element, success element, aggressive element, sexual element, and self-reliant element

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We "_____" by reinforcing traditionally masculine and feminine actions

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do gender

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Ideology that one sex is superior to the other

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Sexism

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Work outside the home followed by housework and childcare.

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Second shift

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An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment

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Glass ceiling

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Organized patterns or beliefs and behaviors that are centered on basic social needs

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Social institution

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Replacing personnel
Teaching new recruits
Producing and distributing goods and services
Preserving order
Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose

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Functionalist perspective major tasks of social institutions

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Major institutions, such as education, help to maintain the privileges of the most powerful individuals and groups in a society, while contributing to the powerlessness of others.

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Conflict perspective

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A set of people who are related by blood, marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship), or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.

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Family

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A married couple and their unmarried children living together.

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Nuclear family

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A family in which relatives – such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles – live in the same home as parents and their children.

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Extended family

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A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.

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Monogamy

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A form of marriage in which a person may have several spouses in his or her life, but only one spouse at a time.

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Serial monogamy

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A form of marriage in which an individual may have several husbands or wives simultaneously.

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Polygamy

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A form of marriage in which a husband may have several wives at the same time.

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Polygyny

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A form of marriage in which a woman may have several husbands at the same time.

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Polyandry

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Favors the mother’s relatives.

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Matrilineal descent

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Both sides of a person’s family are regarded as equally important.

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Bilateral descent

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Spouses are regarded as equal.

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Egalitarian family

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While the egalitarian family has become a more common pattern in the United States in recent decades, male dominance over the family has hardly disappeared.

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Conflict perspective

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A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things (Durkheim).

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Religion

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Karl Marx called religion “the opiate of the people” (false consciousness).

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Conflict perspective

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Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.

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Religious beliefs

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Practices required or expected of members of a faith.

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Religious rituals

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The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality such as a divine being, or being overcome with religious emotion.

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Religious experience