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19 Cards in this Set
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Compartmentalization |
Playing different roles in different places |
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Democratic Façade |
the concept that it is a fallacy that the common man has any say in the big decisions made in the country |
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Deviance and Theorists |
a recognized violation of cultural norms. Functionalists believe that deviance plays an important role in society and can be used to challenge people’s views. |
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Medicalization of Deviance |
Diagnosing and treating deviant behavior as a disease |
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Anomie |
a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent |
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ScapeGoats |
practice of placing blame for one's trouble on an innocent individual or group |
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globalization of capitalism |
Capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globe's dominant economic system |
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Class Consciousness |
Karl Marx's term for awareness of a shared identity based on one's position in the means of production |
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False Class Consciousness |
Karl Marx's term to refer to workers identifying with the interests of capitalists |
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Meritocracy |
A form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit |
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Neocolonialism |
The economy and political dominance of the Least Industrialized Nations by the most In Industrialized Nations |
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Social Stratification |
The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige, applied to both nations and to people within a nation, society, or other group |
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Power Elite |
C. Wright Mill's term for the top people in U.S. corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions |
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Glass Ceiling |
an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender |
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Global Superclass |
interconnections between the world's wealthiest people where power and money are more concentrated than ever before, only about 6,000 people which are mostly white men (except for wives and daughters). |
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Alienation |
the process whereby the worker is made to feel foreign to the products of his/her own labor. |
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GroupThink |
form of social conformity among people in groups. |
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Bureaucracy |
A bureaucracy is a system of organization noted for its size and complexity. Everything within a bureaucracy — responsibilities, jobs, and assignments — exists to achieve some goal. Bureaucracies are found at the federal, state, county, and municipal levels of government, and even large private corporations may be bureaucratically organized. People who work for government agencies, from high-level managers and executives to clerical staff, are called bureaucrats. |
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Coercion |
power that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them; also called illegitimate power |
