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Final Flashcards

1
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Define social construction

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When society constructs the aspects of society, such as race, gender class etc.

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Define prejudice

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To prejudge someone negatively based on inadequate information

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Discrimination

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Unequal treatment that gives advantages to one group of people over another without justifiable cause

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Racism

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The belief that one race is inherently superior to another

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Achieved status

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A position in a social system that a person attains voluntarily, to a considerable degree, as the result of his or her own efforts.

  • work for it yourself
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Ascribed status

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A position in a social system, assigned to a person from birth, regardless to his or her wishes.

  • born with it
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Stereotypes

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Exaggerated, distorted, or untrue generalizations about categories of people that do not acknowledge individual variation

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Status hierarchy

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A ranking of social positions according to their perceived prestige or honor

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Social role

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Set of expected behaviors that are associated with particular statuses

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10
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Dramaturgy

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Studying social life as a theater

Goffman

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Homophily

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People are attracted to those that are similar to themselves

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Stanley milgram experiment

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People asked to electrocute people through a wall
Everyone did it because “authority” said so

  • people will do whatever they are told
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13
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Endogamy

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Pick people like you

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14
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Exogamy

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Pick people unlike you

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15
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Groupthink

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A form of uncritical thinking in which people reinforce a consensus rather than ask serious questions or thoroughly analyze the situation

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Norms

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A culture’s rules and expectations for appropriate behavior

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17
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What do we define as normal?

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The powerful defines normal

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Deviance

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Behavior that does not conform to basic cultural norms and expectations

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Collective conscience

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The shared norms, beliefs, and values in a community

Durkheim

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When do you become an alcoholic?

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When someone labels you as one

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Stigma

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The shame attached to a behavior or status that is considered socially unacceptable

Negative!

22
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Strain theory

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A theory that emphasizes that the strain or pressure on those who lack the means to achieve culturally defined goals leads them to pursue deviant routes to success

(Robert K. Martin)

23
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Secondary deviance

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Deviant behavior that is a response to the negative consequences of labeling

24
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Loner deviance

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The activities of individuals who commit deviant acts without the social support of other participants

(Marth)

25
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Differential association theory

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Deviance is learned through interaction with other people involved in deviant behavior

(Edwin Sutherland)

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Control theory

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Our behavior is regulated by the strength of our connection to major social institutions, including family, school, and religion.

  • our behavior is regulated by our social institutions
  • the more connections you have in society, the less likely you are to be deviant
27
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Karl Marx says we have

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False consciousness

- we don’t know we’re laborers

28
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Capitalists

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Those who sells goods

29
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Working class

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Those who sell labor

30
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Bourgeoisie

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Marx’s term for capitalists

31
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Petite Bourgeoisie

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The lower middle class

32
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Class mobility

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The ability to move from one social class to another

33
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Structural mobility

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Shift in available occupations changes the class system as a whole

  • coal miners
34
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Individual mobility

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When someone’s class changes without the entire class structure changing

35
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Conspicuous consumption

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Lavish spending, done to compete for status with others.

Thorstein Veblen

36
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Feminization of poverty

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A trend in which women made up an increasingly large share of the poor

37
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Social capital

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Relationships that are potentially economically valuable resulting from membership in a group

  • knowing the right people to get what you want
38
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Cultural capital

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Various types of knowledge, skills, and other cultural resources.

39
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WASPS

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

  • if you’re not a wasp, you’re black
40
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Pluralism

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A + B + C

Different race and ethnic groups coexist equally in society

41
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Amalgamation

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A + B + C -> D

When the dominant group A and the minorities join to become a new group

42
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Assimilation

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A + B + C -> A

When the minorities adopt the culture of the dominant group A

43
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Segregation

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A + B + C -> A + B + C

When ethnic groups remain separated and unequal

44
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Genocide

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A - B - C -> A

When minority groups are killed in order to leave just group A left

45
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Sex

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Biological distinction

Male 
Females
Interested 
Asexual 
Transsexual
46
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Gender

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Socially constructed expectations of men and women

A role!!

Man
Woman
Transgender

47
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Sexuality / sexual identity

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Person’s sexual desires/behaviors

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Bisexual 
Asexual 
Pansexual
48
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Why are men stronger than women?

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Because men have been raised to engage in “male” activities and women don’t

49
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Gender identity

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A person’s identification as a women, man, or transgender.

50
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Gender expression

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How you express your gender through clothing, hair, body language etc.

51
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Sexism

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One sex is superior to the other

52
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Who constructs gender first?

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Family

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