Definitions Flashcards
Age patriarchy
How older people exercise power over the young - eg legislation
Alienation
How workers experience their work as separate from them, work does not satisfy them or their inherent creativity
Assimilation
Theory that minority ethnic groups would take in the culture of the dominant group
Attrition
Usually linked to longitudinal studies, the loss of sampling units from the sample group as a result of moving away, death or loss of interest
Boundary problem
The question of who should and who should not be included in the middle class, where to draw the line
Canalization
The process of channelling children’s interests to gender specific toys
Cohort study
Research on people who share a certain characteristic - often age
Concrete ceiling
Relates to the experiences of black and Asian women who are not told what they could aspire too - cannot see through a ‘glass ceiling’
Conflict view
A theory stating that society is made up of groups who have fundamentally different interests
Contradictory class position
Associated with Wright, neo-Marxist who argues that managers find themselves caught between the bourgeoisie who exploit them and the proletariat whom they control
Dual labour market
Two labour markets - the primary labour market where jobs are secure and the secondary labour market in which jobs are less secure and often part time or casual
Elite self recruitment
The ways in which those at the top of society work to ensure that new recruits come from within their own class
Embourgeoisement
A process of taking on the characteristics of the bourgeoisie or middle class in terms of culture, values or beliefs; the embourgeoisement theory was tested by Goldthorpe and Lockwood on the car workers in Luton in the 1960s
Ethnic penalty
The disadvantages coming from being a member of a particular ethnic group
Ethnography
The study of people in their natural environment using qualitative methods, esp observation
Expressive roles
Parsons argues women are in these caring and nurturing roles
Fragmentation
Breaking up into small pieces; may refer to social classes break up identities
Fuel poverty
Household having to spend more than 10% of its income on energy
Gatekeeper
The person or persons who are able to give a researcher access to people they want to study
Go native
When researcher becomes so involved with the group being studied that they lose sight of their role as a researcher (associated with ethnographic researcher)
Grey power
Influence of the elderly often linked to financial power but also in relation to their social and political influence
Hybridity
The development of cultures based on the combination of aspects of a range of cultures including music food and clothes
Insider status
Belonging to a group, having access to the groups secrets or knowledge
Interviewer effect
How social characteristics of an interviewer affect responses of the interviewee
