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Psych/Soc Class 2 Flashcards

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1
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What is a social institution?

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Standardized set of social norms organized to pressure a societal value

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2
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What are examples of social institutions ?

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Education
Family 
Religion
Health and Medicine
Government
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3
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Is education the great equalizer?

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NO, not everyone who has education is equal

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What are the ways in which promotes inequality in education?

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Hidden curriculum

Teacher expectancy

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What is the hidden curriculum ?

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Education transmitting unintentional lessons about norms, values and beliefs

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What is the teacher expectancy?

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Student ten to March teacher expectations

-can be + or -

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7
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What is a democracy?

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Leaders selected by free and fair elections

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What is a monarchy?

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Leaders selected via bloodline/marriage

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9
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What is an authoritarian?

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Leader doesn’t allow you to select leaders but can do everything else

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What is a totalitarian ?

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The government has total control over everything

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What is the iron law of oligarchy?

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All forms of organization develop oligarchy tendency especially in large groups and couples organizations.
-some power will be concentrated and therefore establish new ruling class

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12
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What would the ideal bureaucracy entail?

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Hierarchal structure
Written rules and expectations
Neutrality
Official hired and promoted on technical competence

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13
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What is McDonaldization?

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Principles of fast food dominating other sectors of society

-they are predictable and uniform but leads to loss of origniality

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14
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What is medicalization?

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Process through which human conditions are defined and treated as medical condition

  • new info/discourse regarding decision
  • changing social attitudes/economic consideration
  • Development of new meds and treatments
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15
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What is the sick role?

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individuals who are ill have rights, obligations and responsibilities in society

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What is institutional discrimination?

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The social structure engages in discriminatory practices against a group
-not the choices of individuals but the whole organization

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17
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How is healthcare delivered?

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Small scale: clinics/individual

Large scale: CDC, public health

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What is the difference between the availability and the accessibility off healthcare?

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Availability: The presence of the resource (present)

Accessibility: Ability to obtain existing resources (if present can we use)

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19
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What is social epidemiology?

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Social determinants of health and use if structural concepts explains patterns of health in population

20
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What are social conditions?

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Favourable factors (+) improve overall quality of life

Social problems (-) are social conditions with negative impact

Social isolation: Complete or near-complete lack of contact with others in society

21
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What is the Socioeconomic gradients of health?

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Proportional increase in heath and health outcomes as socioeconomic status increases

22
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What are the major demographics of society?

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Age
Immigration status
Gender
Race
Sexuality
23
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What is the Malthusian theory?

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Unchecked population growth would exceed carrying capacity leading to over population and catastrophe

24
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What is the demographic transition theory?

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Societies transition from high hearth and high health rates to low birthrate and low death rate

25
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What will population pyramids not tell you about?

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Birth rate

26
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What is the difference between sex and gender?

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Sex is biological

Gender is a social construct

27
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What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

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Race is social construct based on physical characteristics

Ethnicity us a shared common nationality and shared traditions, languages food, religion

28
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What is urbanization?

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Population shift from rural to urban

29
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What is globalization?

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International integration

30
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What is Social movement?

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Group that attempts to promote, resist or undo a social change

31
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What is gentrification?

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Changing of neighbourhoods though renovation and capital investment that increases cost and perceived livability of the neighbourhood

32
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What is residential segregation?

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Physical separation into different areas based on race, ethnicity and SES

33
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What us environmental injustice?

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How SES and minorities live in shittier areas compared to upperclass

34
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What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

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Prejudice: a belief

Discrimination: Biased treatment (action)

35
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What is social segregation?

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Tendency of people for the same social group to interact with each other and have minimal contact with individuals of another social group

36
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How is SES defined?

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Power
Prestige
Property

37
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What is absolute poverty?

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Actual lack of essential resources

38
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What is relative poverty?

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Social inequality compared to other members of society

39
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What is social stratification?

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Different societies classify people based on different thing

40
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What are the 3 levels of social stratification?

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Caste: Status defined by birth

Class: Degree of social mobility

Meritocracy: Individual merit/achievement

41
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What is social reproduction?

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When social inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next

42
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What is Structural mobility?

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Is brought about by changes in stratification of the hierarch itself

43
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What determines social mobility?

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Physical, Social and Cultural capital

44
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What is assimilation?

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Process in which a person or a group culture come to resemble /chose another culture

45
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What is multiculturalism?

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Preservation of various cultures or cultural identities

46
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What is ethnocentrism?

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Belief in the inherent superiority of of ones own ethnic group or culture

47
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What is cultural relativism ?

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Individual human beliefs and activities should be understood by others

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