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Social stratification |
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Social Inequality |
Unequal distribution of wealth, power and prestige |
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Social hierarchy |
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SES |
A measure of wealth, power, and prestige, an individual’s place within a class |
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Social Class |
A system of stratification based on access to resources such as wealth, property, power, and prestige |
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Embodied Identity |
Someone’s perception of your race, not your own |
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Race |
Socially constructed; based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of ppl |
This term evolves and changes over time - ch 8 |
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Ethnicity |
Social category Applied to a group with shared ancestry or cultural heritage |
Linked by language, religion, and history |
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Symbolic ethnicity |
Symbolizes your whole or part of your ethnicity |
Holidays |
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Situational ethnicity |
Changing how open you are with your ethnicity |
Can be displayed or concealed because of its usefulness |
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Prejudice |
An idea about the characteristics of a group that is applied to all members of that group and is unlikely to change regardless of the evidence against it |
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Discrimination |
Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership in a social group; usually motivated by prejudice |
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Implicit Bias |
Attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding actions and decisions in an unconscious manner |
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Microaggeessions |
Everyday uses of subtle verbal and nonverbal communications that convey denigrating or dismissive messages to members of certain social groups |
Racial slurs or body language |
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Ethnocentrism |
The belief that your ethnicity is superior to anyone else’s and judging other cultures based off of your own |
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Residential segregation |
The geographical separation of the poor from the rest of an area’s population |
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Self fulfilling prophecy |
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Physical stigma |
Physical or mental impairments |
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Moral stigma |
Signs of a flawed character |
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Tribal stigma |
Membership in a discredited or oppressed group |
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Spoiled identity |
An individual who has been stigmatized and deemed deviant |
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Passing |
Presenting yourself as a different group than the stigmatized people you belong too |
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Positivist perspective - deviance |
Focused on most obvious forms of deviant behavior such as crime m, mental illness, and sexual deviance |
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Naturalist perspective - deviance |
Appreciate the diversity and complexity of a particular social world. Sociologists must seek insight without passing judgement |
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Social reproduction |
The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as class stays is passed down from one generation to the next |
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Power |
The ability to impose ones will on others |
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Prestige |
Social honor that comes from your membership status within society |
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Cultural Captial |
Habits, tastes, knowledge, and other cultural assets that give on an advantage in society |
Bilingual and |
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Hypergamy |
Marrying “up” in the social class hierarchy |
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Hypogamy |
Marrying down in the social class hierarchy |
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Vertical social mobility |
Upward or downward changes in class statues |
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Horizontal social mobility |
Staying in the same social class but change occupations |
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Disfranchisment |
The removal of the rights of citizenship through economic, political, and legal means |
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Culture of poverty |
An entrenched attitude that allows the poor to accept their fate |
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Absolute poverty |
Cannot provide the basic necessities |
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Relative poverty |
A comparison of how poor you may be compared to median incomes for example |
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Just World Hypothesis |
People have a need to see the world as orderly and fair. People in poverty or oppression are deserving of their fate |
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Racism |
An ideology or set of beliefs that one race or ethnic group is superior to another |
Racial differences is innate and biological |
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Sexuality |
The character or quality of being sexual |
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Sexual orientation |
The inclination to feel sexual desire toward people of a particular gender |
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Queer theory |
Theory about gender and sexual identity; emphasizes the importance of difference and rejects ideas of innate identities or restrictive categories |
Spectrum of gay ; possibilities overlap |
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The Women’s Movement |
An effort to end the subordination of women. In three different waves |
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Homophobic |
Fear of or discrimination toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people |
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Transphobia |
Fear of or discrimination toward gender nonconforming people |
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Asexuality |
Lack of sexual attraction of any kind |
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The men’s movement |
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Social Interactions |
Social practices that are repeated continuously |
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Social institutions |
Systems and structures that organize daily life; paradoxical |
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Color blind racism |
An ideology that removes race as an explanation for any form of unequal treatment |
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Authority |
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Power |
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Pluralism |
Power is shared and is equal for all. System of checks and balances |
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Power elite |
C. Wright Mills. Small group of elites who work through institutions to benefit themselves |
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Reverse racism |
Programs such as affirmative action that are unfair or target whites |
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Double consciousness |
Dubois term for the divided identity experienced by blacks in the U.S |
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Affirmative Action |
Set of policies that support members of disadvantaged groups |
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Sex |
An individuals membership in one of the two categories- male or female - based on biological factors |
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Intersex |
A person whose chromosomes or sex characteristics are neither exclusively male nor exclusively female |
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Gender |
The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members |
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Gender expression |
An individuals behavioral manifestations of gender |
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Gender identity |
An individuals self definition or sense of gender |
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“Family” |
Two or more members related by blood, marriage, adoption who share a household. |
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Family - Sociology |
Historically culturally situationally and socially constructed |
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Momogamy |
Marrying one person at a time |
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Polygamy |
Multiple spouses at one time |
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Homigany |
Mates who are similar to us in different aspects such as age religion education and more |
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Homigany |
Mates who are similar to us in different aspects such as age religion education and more |
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Proponquity |
Choosing mates based on geographical proximity |
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Exogamy |
Marrying outside your social group ( religious, race, etc g |
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Endogamy |
Cultural pressure to marry someone from the same social group |
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Emotional labor |
Coined in 1953 by Hoscchild. The idea of constantly balancing.emotion work within your life. |
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Unpaid labor |
The free invisible work that women take to keep track of the little things that hold the household together |
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Second Shift |
The labor performed at home in addition to the labor performed in one’s profession |
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Intentional communities |
A planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social Cohen soon and teamwork. Bonded by a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision |
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