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113 Cards in this Set

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Balance between conflict and cooperation
Accomodation
laws designed to ensure equality for minorities (women, handicapped, etc.)
Affirmative Action
Blending of races or culture THROUGH MARRIAGE.
Amalgamation
Encorporating a new area into your society
Annexation
state or NORMlessness (doesn't follow norms of society, hobos, street people)
Anomie
practicing to become an adult
Anticipatory Socialization
ability to learn a new skill
Aptitude
status you're born with or have no control over
Ascribed status
blending of cultures
Assimilation
who has the right to rule (LEGITIMATE power)
Authority
NON-OBVIOUS racism
Aversive racism
*person*
NOW (National Organization of Women), modern women's rights, Feminine Mestique
Betty Friedan
*person*
UFW (United Farm Workers), fought for migrant farmers' rights
Cesar Chaves
Type of leader that has a powerful personality
Expressive (charismatic) Leader
Law based on judges' decisions (precedents)
Common Law
line of communication between one end of a group and another
Continuum
A deviant behavior that violates the law, a public wrong, any act that is deemed as such by a governing body
Crime
A small group loosely attatched to a religious idea but strangely attatched to its leader
Cult
Someone who accepts the goals of society and the normal means to attain them
Conformer
Law that comes form the framework of the government (amendments, etc)
Constitutional Law
choices withing the universe (sandals or shoes, hot dog or hamburger, etc)
Cultural Alternative
total amount of trats in a culture at any given time
Cultural Base
clusters of interrelated traits
1. traits (pencil)
2. ____ (school)
3. patterns (school district)
Cultural Complex
some parts of culture change slower than others
Cultural Lag
Clusters of interrelated complexes
1. traits
2.complexes
3.____
Cultural Pattern
when society has more than one social group
Cultural Pluralism
Common traits found in all human cultures (accepted and required by all cultures with some exceptions)
Cultural Universals
the shared learned behavior of a people (the ideas)
Culture
a person with a behavior that violates significant social norms
Deviant
borrowing traits from another culture
Diffusion
the denial of equal treatment to group members.
(this is the act)
Discrimination
These people make the rules for society
Dominant Members
culture that is shared by a select few, but prized by many
Elite Culture
movement OUT of a country
Emigration
marriage outside one's own social category
Exogamy
type of family, three or more generations living in the same house
Extended Family
type of family, husband, wife, children
Nuclear Family
anything to promote equality to women
Feminism
norms that are not critical to society but make life easier
Folkways
the most serious crimes (murder, rape, kidnapping)
Felonies
A group with rules, structure, and function
Formal Group
*person*
Sexual Development; trying to explain why we are unhappy (his answer: because of society's restrictions)
Freud
when you're a woman of color and are refused promotions
Gendered Racism
woman can see the highest jobs, but can't get to them
"Glass Ceiling"
marrying someone with the same social characteristics as you
Homogamy
Discrimination in society that is out of habit (ex:women paid less than men)
Institutionalized Discrimination
a group that tends to influence the government in their own favor
Interest Group
*person*
first African American elected to congress from the SOUTH
John Lewis
*person*
first African American to enroll in the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
a set of symbols and rules that, put together in a meaningful way, forms our communication system, reflects the views of the culture in regard to race, gender, and class structure
Language
written rules of conduct, enforced by some government agency, that we deemed as very important
Laws
laws from a legislative body (Congress)
Legislative (statuatory) Law
responsible for the My Lai Massacre
Lt. William Calley
SCLC, Civil Rights leader, nonviolent, "I have a dream"
Martin Luther King Jr.
founder of communism
Karl Marx
humanist, heirarchy of needs
Maslow
when two urban areas overlay
Megalopolis
the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
Migration
case that established the rights of the accused
Miranda v. Arizona
crimes more serious than summary offenses (assault, burglary, etc)
Misdemeanors
a medium of exchange used to trade for goods and services; easy to carry, easy to change and is readily accepted.
Money and Monetary System
marriage between one man and one woman
Monogamy
a norm that is critical to society but may or may not be written down
Mores (pronounced More-ays)
live on your own, away from your family
Neolocal
shared rules of conduct on how to behave
Norms
work will expand to fill the time given for its completion. (I hire two people to take my spot if I get promoted)
Parkinson's Law
we promote people to a level of incompetence
Peter Principle
father is in charge
Patriarchy
lives with HIS family
Patrilocal
she has more than one husband
Polyandry
the total number of people in a given area at a given time
Population Base
the number of people per square mile
Population Density
when you cannot meet the basic needs food, clothing, or shelter
Poverty
the ability to control or influence others
Power
unsupported ideas about a group of people based on misjudgment
Prejudice
when people can be classified as distinct based on the appearance or culture
Race
corresponding opposite roles (father-son, husband-wife)
Reciprocal Roles
a group that meets over and over
Recurrent Group
one of the five social institutions. A belief in one or more supernatural beings, gives people a reason to live, a sense of comfort and belonging, and a sense of purpose.
Religion
when a group weighs risks differently than the individual would
Risky Shift
a ceremony marking a change in status (usually religious)
Rite of Passage
*person*
Humanist, conditions of worth, unconditional positive regard
Carl Rogers
A conflict because of your duties in two different social institutions (can't study because I'm babysitting)
Role Conflict
how you're expected to behave in a role
Role Expectation
you have a difficult time in your role inside one social institution
Role Strain
*person*
refused to ride in back of bus, Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
AIM (American Indian Movement) leader
Russel Means
rewards and punishments to enforce the norms
Sanctions
blaming someone else for your problems
Scapegoating
spatial separating of the races
Segregation
your biological identity
Sex
when almost everyone conforms to the norms
Social Control
a collective effort by a number of people to bring about change in society
Social Movement
a number of people living in the same geographical area who share a common culture and a feeling of unity
Society
touch
Somatosensory Cortex
when the government commits a crime
State Organized Crime
your socially defined position
Status
an oversimplified set of beliefs about a group of people
Stereotype
how society is organized
Structure
a minor crime (traffic ticket)
Summary Offense
*person*
First African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, lawyer in Brown v. Topeka, NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
a private wrong (civil case)
Tort
an individual aspect of personality. Also, the smallest unit of culture (it’s a tool, act or belief, ex: pen)
Trait
2500 or more people per square mile
Urban Area
these are the impoverished people in the modern world (in cities)
Urban Underclass
poorest, most underdeveloped countries in the world
Third World
Cuba, China, Russia, and her former communist allies
Second World
The U.S. and her allies
First World
the shared ideas of what is right, good, and important in society
Values
minorities don’t try as hard to be successful because they’ve been denied in the past.
Victimization Perspective
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, America’s dominant members
WASPs
father of psychology
Wundt
when birth rate and death rate are equal
Zero Population Growth