Gender/race/deviance Quiz

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Sex

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Biological distinctions between males and females

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Gender

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Personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being makes and female. Concerns psych, soc, and cultural differences between males and females

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Gender socialization

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The learning of gender roles with the help of socialization agents

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Gender stratification

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Unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

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Gender inequality

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Difference in status, power, and prestige men and women have in groups, collectives, and societies

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Where is gender inequality seen?

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-Access to resources (food,$, power, time, education)
-life chances
-value placed on roles and activities in society

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Explanations for inequality in the workplace

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-demand
-increase in labor force activity among women who were beyond prime child bearing years

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Deviant subculture

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Group f individuals who, together, violate cultural norms

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Deviance

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-recognized violations of cultural norms
-nonconformity to a given set of norms that are accepted by a significant # of ppl in a community or society

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Crime

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Violation of society's formally enacted laws

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Sanction

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Any rxn from others to the behavior of an individual or group that is meant to ensure that the person or group complies with a given norm

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Social control

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Attempts by society to regulate people's thought and behavior

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Criminal justice system

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Formal response of police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations in law

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Meades looking glass self

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Ppl are labeled deviant as they are defined that way by others

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Structural functionalism (with regard to deviance)

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-deviance important or even necessary to structure of society
-affirms cultural values
-establish boundaries
-responses to deviance brings ppl together
-lets us establish what we are by what we are not

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Labeling theory

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-the assertion that deviance and conformity result, not so much from what ppl do, as from how ppl in authority respond to those actions
-ppl become deviant bc certain labels are attached to their behavior by political authorities and others

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Control theory

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Crime occurs as a result of an imbalance between impulses toward criminal activity and the social or physical controls that deter it
-"broken windows" theory

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Race

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Classification system that assigns individuals and groups to categories that are ranked or hierarchical

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Ethnicity

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Cultural practices as outlooks of a given community that have emerged historically and tend to set ppl apart (language, history, religious traditions, style of dress, foods)

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Racialization

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Labeling of groups based on perceived or actual physical differences.

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Prejudice vs discrimination

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Prejudice = opinions/attitudes held by members of one group toward another

Discrimination = actual behavior toward another group rooted in prejudice

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Models of ethnic integration

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Assimilation: newcomers assume attitudes of dom group
Melting pot: diff cultures meld together
Pluralism: ethic cultures given full validity to exist separately yet participate in larger society's economic and political life
Multiculturalism: ethnic groups exist separately and equally

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Urban ecology

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A perspective on urban analysis emphasizing natural distr of city neighborhoods into areas honing contrasting characteristics and inter-dependence of those characteristics

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Chi school thought

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Principles of ecology (adaptations of plants and animal life to the environment) could be applied to other cities

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Urbanism (via chi school thought)

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Cities must develop where there are natural resources to support them. Cities develop into neighborhoods. Immigrants cluster together.

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Urbanism as a way of life

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Less about why cities happen then what is going on within them. Ppl I'm close proximity yet do no know each other.

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Global inequality

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Systematic differences in power and wealth that exist among countries

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High income countries

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Social problems that perpetuate global inequality

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Health
Healthcare
Hunger malnutrition famine
Poverty
Education

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Dependency theories

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Poverty of low income countries stems from exploitation by wealthier countries ad multinational companies based in wealthier countries.
-exploitation began with colonialism but did not end after WW2
-lack of economic, political, and economic capital prevents countries from ending exploitation

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Market-oriented theories of GI

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Religion and religious belief allow us to separate ______ from ______

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Sacred from profane

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Sacred

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Elements of life set apart as extraordinary and inspiring awe and reverence

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State centered theories

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Religiosity

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An individual's or groups intensity of commitment to a religious belief system

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Structural functionalism in religion

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Highlights the functions of religion (social cohesion, social control, perpetuation of values beliefs norms)

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Social conflict in religion

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Highlights the dysfunction of religion.

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Secularization

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Historical decline in the importance of the supernatural an the sacred

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Response to Secularization

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Fundamentalism. Conservative religious doctrine that oppresses intellectualism in favor of restoring traditional other worldly religion

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Symbolic interaction ism in religion

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Religion as social construction
Meaning attached to religion is determined by everyday interactions (whispering in church finer clothes handling of communion)

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Market-oriented theories of GI

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World systems theory

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Argues that the world capitalist system should be understood as a single unit rather than as a collection of independent countries with diplomatic and economic ties

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Peripheral countries

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Low income, largely agricultural countries that are often manipulated by core countries for their own economic advancement

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State centered theories

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Social capital

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Creation of capabilities thru socially structured relationships between individuals and groups

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Cultural capital

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Those things which give one a higher social standing such as the credentials of higher education

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Human capital

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Skills, capabilities, and knowledge acquired by individuals thru education and training that allow them to act better

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Religion

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Social institution
Cultural system to commonly shared beliefs and rituals
Unified system of beliefs and practices (Durkheim)

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Religion is

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-system of symbols which acts to:
Est powerful and long lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order and existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic