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What is a structural functionalist perspective in work and the economy |
economic institutions provide basic necessities to individuals; low division of labor (women can work the same jobs as men. |
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What is a the conflict theorist perspective in work and the economy |
capitalism is responsible of unequal distribution of jobs; have high division of labor |
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what is the symbolic interactionist perspective in work and the economy |
work is the central park of one's identity; occupation = master status Child labor is good!! |
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What are the four feminist theories |
Feminist liberation; feminist essential-ism; feminist socialism; feminist post-modernism |
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Define feminist liberation |
focuses mainly in employment quality between both genders |
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Define feminist essential-ism |
looks at the difference between what men and women think (argues for female superiority) |
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Define feminist socialism |
unequal attainment in resources for lower, middle and upper class women; culture is also a factor. |
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Define feminist post modernism |
the belief that all men are men and all women are women. against queer theory. |
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What is queer theory? |
disputes the idea that male and female gender identity is biological |
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What is pay equity for women? |
guarantee that females receive equal pay in female-dominated jobs |
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What is social straitification |
deals with nature and origins of social inequality; unequal distribution of class, wealth and power |
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What is the caste system |
ranked classes people are born into |
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what is the difference between poverty and relative poverty |
relative poverty is when you lack something in comparison to your reference group. poverty is the complete lack of necessities. |
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What is Poor No More? and what theory does it relate to? |
poor no more defines reasons why Sweden has a better government tax system. it relates to conflict theory!!!! |
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What is the difference between gender and sex? |
gender (achieved) is a social construct of men and women to act a certain way sex (ascribed) the biological identity of a man and woman |
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what is patriarchy |
patriarchy is when men dominates a society |
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What is gender stratification |
an inequality between genders |
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what is occupational sex segregation |
when women or men are deliberately obtaining certain jobs according to what society is fit for them. |
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what are pink collar jobs |
jobs that are designed for women |
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what is the glass ceiling |
it is women's belief that they can advance in jobs but the glass ceiling prevents them in doing so. |
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what is the difference between a social movement and a collective behaviour |
social movement: involve more people and aim for social change; take a long time and are more organized collective behavior: involve riots, panics, etc. |
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Define Social Movement |
organized activity that encourages or discourages social change |
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What are the two Social Movement Organizations that seek to change people |
Alternative and Redepmtive |
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What are the two Social Movement Organizations that seek to change society |
Reformative and Revolutionary |
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What is the difference between Social Movement Organization focusing on Alternative and Redemptive |
Alternative: least threatening, small change for a small # of people, only change particular people Redemptive: Selective focus, radical change of people |
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Give an example of an alternative social movement organization |
mothers against drunk driving, planned parenthood |
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Give an example of a redemptive social movement organization |
Christianity that stresses conversion |
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What is the difference between reformative and revolutionary social movement organization |
reformative: limited social change that targets all members of society revolutionary: the most severe, striving for transformation of society |
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Give examples of a reformative social movement organization |
environment |
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Give examples of a revolutionary social movement organization |
communist or ultra-conservative politician movements |
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who is Herbert Spencer? |
coined the term "survival of the fittest" where in stronger and more developed people usually take effective action |
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Give an example of weaknesses in the relative deprivation theory |
differentiating the difference between absolute and relative deprivation (outmoded computer student who may not achieve success in college or university due to lack of resources!!) |
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define class consciousness |
a subjective awareness of common vested interest and the need for collective political action to bring about social change |
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define ideology |
set of beliefs in society |
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What is the difference between counter and liberal ideology? |
Counter: counters the norm Liberal: views an individual in a sociological scene |
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define hegemony |
non-coercive means of maintaining power |
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What is a contemporary caste? |
"untouchables" can not bring social class down e.g. people who benefited from India's policy of quotas in education and government jobs. |
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what is the powley test? |
define whether Inuit and Metis people can lawfully hunt |
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what is racialization? give examples. |
when people are judged based on their physical appearances. Canada's native people and Black people. |
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What is the indian act and how did it affect men and women? |
this is known to be a sexist act. Even though it benefits indians, women who marry from outside their cultural group will have their statues evoked, while men get to keep theirs. |
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What are the four elements of racism |
racialization, prejudice, discrimination, power. |
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define prejudice |
pre judgement based on their group membership |
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define discrimination |
individuals treated differently based on their group membership |
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define power |
when a "white" dominated society has more advantages in a group. (white superiority) |
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define racial bigotry |
openly expresses hate upon certain groups |
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what is systematic (institutional) racism |
when racist practices, laws and riles become institutionalized. |
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define colonialism and two sub genre of colonialism |
colonialism: exploitation of a weaker country by a stronger one 2 examples: inter colonialism and indirect rule |
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define intercolonialism |
colonialism of one people by another within a single country |
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what is the difference between hegemonic masculinity and subordinate masculinity |
hegemonic: normalize men's dominance subordinate: threatens legitimacy of hegemonic masculinity (transgender) |
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what is the difference between marginalized and complicit masculinity |
marginalized: adapting to masculinity to issues like race and class Complicit: people who do not comply with hegemonic masculinity, but benefit from hegemonic ways |
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what are the five interpretations of social change |
modernism, conservation, post-modernism, evolution and fashion |
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what is the difference between modernism and conservation |
modernism believes that change is progress conservation thinks that there is more harm when social change is initiated. |
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define post modernism |
post modernism relates largely on voice |
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define evolution |
adapting well to particular circumstances not the general biological progress |
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who are the charter groups |
the British and the french (the main founder of the Canadian confederation; found in 1867 |
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what is genocide |
deliberate killing of a large group |
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what is amalgamation |
the action, process or result of combining or uniting |
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define trade union |
it is when the employer and the employee to further better their occupational. |
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what is the multiculturalism act |
passed in 1988 that aims to persevere and enhance multiculturalism in canada |
