Senior Comp Exam Flashcards

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Capitalist characteristics

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a. Institution of private property
b. Exchange of value (monetary)
c. Profit motive
d. Free market

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doubling time

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P(t)= Po(2)^t/k

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growth rate

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gr= present-past/past

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juvenile court vs adult court

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Juvenile court cases are private without a jury and follow the Welfare and Institution Code. Adults have public cases with a jury and the court follows the penal code.

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golden rule of report writing

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Keep your reporting simple while still being able to recognize a flashing red light that indicates a problem

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3 strikes (law)

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a criminal sentencing law that increases the prison sentences of repeat felons

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truth-in-sentencing (law)

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(TIS) laws require people to serve a certain percentage of their sentence

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types of warrants

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Arrest warrant: Issued when there is evidence that a person committed a crime. If an arrest warrant is issued, the police can arrest and imprison the person.
Bench warrant: Issued when a defendant fails to appear in court for a scheduled date.
Search warrant: A court order that allows law enforcement to search a person, place, vehicle, or device for evidence of a crime.
Alias warrant: Issued when a person fails to appear in court or has not entered a plea.
Fugitive warrant: A specialized arrest warrant used to capture a fugitive. Fugitive warrants are designed to work across different jurisdictions.
Governor’s warrant: An arrest warrant that can be used to capture a fugitive if a fugitive warrant has been dismissed.
Probation warrant: Issued when a probation officer submits an affidavit alleging that a defendant has violated the conditions of their probation.

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arrest process

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Miranda rights: The accused is informed of their rights, including the right to remain silent, the right to consult with a lawyer, and the right to have a lawyer appointed if they cannot afford one.
Recording evidence: The officer records their observations, statements, and evidence about the alleged crime.
Photographing and fingerprinting: The officer takes a “mug shot” of the suspect.
Background check: The police conduct a criminal background check on the suspect.
Booking: The suspect is transported to a police station or precinct for booking. The police identify, photograph, and fingerprint the suspect, and search for a criminal record. They also collect personal property and place the suspect in a holding cell.
Charging: The prosecutor reviews the information provided by the police and decides what charges to file. The time it takes for the prosecutor to file charges varies by jurisdiction, but many states require a decision within 72 hours.

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Sociological studies

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-surveys
-Experiments/ Quasi experiments
- field studies

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field studies

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case studies
°participant observation
°non-participation

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Participant/ Non Participant Observation

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Interviews using questionnaires
Combine watching with asking questions
Life history using text and historical sources
Recording culture using field notes, tape recorder, video
Census taking
Mapping

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Obtrusive

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noticeable or prominent

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  • Participant observation
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Advantages –
1) preliminary data
2) uses small samples
3) cost effective
4) high validity
Disadvantages
1) high subjectivity (bias)
2) low reliability
3) low objectivity

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Family Structure

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  • Traditional family (man and woman)
  • Extended family (of more than one generation )
  • Single Parent
  • Step or Reconstituted
  • Serial Monogamy
  • Gay/Lesbian
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Function of Family

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  • Regulation of sexual activities
  • Economic Production
  • Committed Relationships
  • Socialization
  • Economic/financial security
  • Emotional bonding
  • Cultural transmission
  • Care of the sick/elderly
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Family Dysfunctions

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  • Violence, abuse, and neglect of spouses and children
  • Child molestation/Incest
  • Permissive rearing
  • Drug use and abuse
  • Absence of fathers
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Why do people get married

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  • Romantic Love(Cupid)
  • Financial/ economic security
  • Arranged by parents
  • Long term companionship, etc
  • Forming alliances between families
  • As a status symbol (improve status)
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Delete

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%3r

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Delete

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Delete

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Theories/Explanations of Marriage/ Family

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  • Functionalism
    o Traditional family
     Instrumental leader (man)
     Expressive leader (woman)
  • Reproduces the family from generation to generation
  • Conflict Theory
    o Arrangement may not always benefit the women
     Competition for power
  • Symbolic Interactionism
    o Focuses on socialization and nurturing
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22
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The ID, Ego, and Super Ego

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Thought to hitting someone is a ID
Super Ego says its absolutely not ok
Ego is simply not doing it

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23
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ABC Triad

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Affect- How people feel (feelings as emotions)
Behavior- What people do (actions)
Cognition- what people think about (thought processes)
Ex-Love bombing then cheating

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Social Psychology Common 3 questions of Affect

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  1. How good is it?
  2. How powerful is it?
  3. How active is it?
    i.e. Social media
    These questions are answered based on feelings, not logic- affective meanings
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3 aspects of affective meanings- EPA

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  1. Evaluation
  2. Potency
  3. Activity
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Natural selection decides which traits will disappear, and which will continue

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  • Survival: living long enough to reproduce
  • Mutation: a new gene or combination of genes
  • Reproduction: producing babies that survive long enough to also reproduce
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Delete

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Delete

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Delete

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Delete

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29
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  • Self-knowledge
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o How we are aware of ourselves

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 Self concept

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  • Information about self
  • Self-awareness
  • Self esteem
  • Self-deception
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 Public self

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  • Self-presentation
  • Member of groups
  • Relationship partner
  • Social roles
  • reputation
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  • Agent self
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  • Executive function
    o Decision making
    o Self-control
    o Taking charge of situations
    o Active responding
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Self-awareness theory-

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  1. Mirror/audience/photo/hear name
  2. Self-awareness
  3. Unpleasant self-discrepancies
  4. CHANGE (match behavior to standard) or ESCAPE (withdraw from self-awareness)
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The looking-glass self

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  • imagine how you appear to others
  • imagine how others will judge you
    -Develop an emotional response as a result of imagining how others will judge you
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Self-perception Theory

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people observe their own behavior to infer what they are thinking and how they are feeling

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36
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Dependency ratio

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(# of persons less than or equal to 15 yrs + # of persons greater than 65 yrs)/ # of persons b/w 15 &65 yrs*100

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Youth dependency burden

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of persons less than or equal to 15 yrs/ # of persons b/w 15 &65 yrs*100

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38
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Old age dependency burden

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of persons greater than 65 yrs/ # of persons b/w 15 &65 yrs*100

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39
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Demographic Transition

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Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Post Industrialization

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40
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o Sir Thomas Malthus

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  • Race b/w land and people- food supply may not be sufficient to feed an uncontrolled population
  • Checks on population growth
    o Famine, drought, and diseases
    o Planned control using family planning, celibacy, wait to have children
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41
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3 factors of production-

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  1. Labor- wages: a variable factor( prices rise and fall based on supply)
  2. Land- rent (depreciates)
  3. Capital- interest paid (depreciates)
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43
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Delete

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44
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Demographic surveys may include data on

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  • Employment
  • Crime
  • Public health
  • Consumer expeditions
  • Housing
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45
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Economic surveys in general may include

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  • Retail
  • Service
  • Other establishment of the Federal Government
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46
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Who uses census data?

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  1. Forecasting future product command
  2. Determine location of new plants
  3. Determine future needs for Nursing homes and Daycare
  4. Labor force participation
  5. General economy development of regions
  6. Decide location of new housing and public facilities
  7. Plan transportation systems
  8. Determine Quotas and creating police precinct
  9. Create localized areas for elections, schools, utilities
  10. Examine the demographic characteristics of communities, states, and the country at large
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Scientific method:

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  1. Identify and define a problem
  2. State a hypothesis (statement of fact to be proved true or false)
  3. Observations (method of collecting data)
  4. Organize data, analyze, summarize
  5. Write reports including your conclusions
48
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  1. Modernization
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includes social status, roles, and obligations

Social and cultural differentiation as society progresses from simpler to more complex forms

49
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  1. Ecology
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a. Simple- Agricultural- Industrialization
i. Not limited to economic growth, but includes economic development
1. Economic growth-increase in gross national product (GNP/Capita)
2. Economic development- implies increases in indices of well being
a. More than basic needs of shelter, food, recreation but not access to public health, clean environment, protection from crime

50
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  • How humans affect or are affected by the environment
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 Air
* Temp/Climate (Rainfall, drought, heat, etc.)
 H20(water)
* From the atmosphere
* On earth
* Underground water
 Land
* Arable, recreational, non-arable, and fossils
o Questions
 How do humans use the environment?
* Resource Bank
* Habitat
* Sink for wastes
 How do humans impact the environment?
* Population growth # decline
* Economic growth
* Technological development
 When does human activity change the environment?
* Resource depletion (Extinction)
* Pollution
o Air, water, land

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 Three Worlds (Nations)

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  • Rich Advanced (1st)
  • Middle Income (2nd)
  • Developing or underdeveloped( 3rd)
52
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I= P.A.T.

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o When I= Environmental Impact
o P= population size
o A= Level of Affluence( goods/pop)
o T= Technological change (Pop/goods)

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54
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 Crude birth rate

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of live births in year (x) / mid year total population in yr (x) x 1000

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 General fertility rate(GFR)

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total # of births in yr (x)/women aged (15-44)x1000

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 Child-woman ratio(CWR)

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total # of children ages (0-4 yrs)/ women aged (15-49)x1000

57
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 Age-specific fertility rate (ASFS)

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Births in a yr to women aged x + (x+5) yrs/total women aged x to (x+5) x1000

58
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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∑ (ASFR x5)
***TFR is the summation of ASFR x5

59
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  • Families today take several forms
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o single-parent
o remarried
o dual-career
o Communal
o Homosexual
o Traditional

60
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3 major family structures

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  1. Extended
    a. Grandparents and uncles and nieces
  2. Nuclear
    a. Parents and kids
  3. Postmodern
    a. Single parent, blended families, different sexuality marriages, 3-generation (grandparents, parents, kids)
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  • Gender Identity: the degree to which we see ourselves as feminine, masculine, some other gender, or no gender
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o Sex is used in reference to male, female, or intersex anatomy(physical make up)and physiology (internal make up and purpose).
o Gender refers to socially learned expectations and behaviors associated with members of each sex.
o Doing Gender: Actively constructing gender in interactions with others
o Cisgender refers to a person whose cultural gender identity aligns with the sex assigned at birth

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64
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love

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  • Three components of love
    o Intimacy- close, connected feelings
    o Passion- drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual behavior
    o Commitment- the decision to love someone and maintain that love
  • The 3 components develop at different times
    o Passion is quickest to develop and quickest to fade
    o Intimacy develops more slowly
    o Commitment develops more gradually still
65
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6 love styles

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  • Eros
    o Characterized by intense emotional attachment and powerful feelings or desires
  • Storge
    o An affectionate, companionate style of loving focused on deepening mutual commitment, respect, friendship and common goals
  • Pragma
    o Involves rational assessment of a potential partner’s assets and liabilities
  • Agape
    o Emphasizes unselfish concern for the beloved’s needs even when that requires personal sacrifice
  • Ludus
    o Emphasizes enjoying many sexual partners rather than searching for a serious relationship
  • Mania
    o Rests on strong sexual attraction and emotional intensity. It differs from eros in that manic partners are extremely jealous and moody, and their need for attention and affection is insatiable
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67
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Stratification systems

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 Slavery
 Caste system
 Estate systems
 Class system
o Industrialization
o Capitalism and institutions of private property
o Profits
o Free market

68
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Definition of social class

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1) objective definitions -uses measurable criteria (employed by the us census)
2)subjective definition- relies on perceptions of US or others

69
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social class ladder- Social Class system- upper, middle, and lower

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 Upper class
 Middle class
 Lower middle class
 Working class
 Lower class
 Underclass

70
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 GNP per Capita

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 The Gini Coefficient (an index of economic inequality)

71
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Ideological Support of Inequality- Justification of Why things are the way they are, things stay the same

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 Individualism- focuses on personal characteristics of an individual
 Work Ethic- protestant ethic- work hard
 Social Darwinism- Survival of the fittest
 Culture of poverty- lifestyles of the poor
 Equal opportunity- the land of opportunity, can pull self up by bootstraps
Ideology- refers to ideas rooted in tradition, customs, and religion

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Types of Capital: Integral to whether one is rich, wealthy, or poor

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  1. Financial- monetary wages/ salaries
  2. Cultural-values/behaviors passed from generation to generation
  3. Human- attainment of special skills and expertise
  4. Social- social net working/ groups and organization
73
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Poverty- The US Census use a poverty threshold to determine rates

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A) Absolute- cant even obtain basic needs of life
B) Relative- in comparative sense with a segment of the population

74
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Middle and upper class American VALUES:

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  1. Individualism
  2. Science/technology
  3. Equality
  4. Freedom
  5. Humanitarianism
  6. Family
  7. Education
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Karl Marx~ Conflict Theorist: Captialism

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o Inequality rises as society progresses from simpler to more complex (primitive to modern)
o Recall systems of stratification
o Marx’s theory therefore is based on society’s mode of production
o Owners of the means of production vs wage workers
o Marx uses wealth as the only index or measure of social class- is the subjective ranking system

76
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  • Max Weber
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o Weber uses wealth + status and power

77
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C.W. Mills

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The Elites- Elitism
a. All decisions are made by Elites
b. Distinguish themselves not only by their income but by their privileged positions.
c. Share common social / cultural backgrounds that enable them to transmit privileges intergenerationally
d. Engage in special socialization of their children
e. Encourage good marriages
1. Institutional (Political)
2. Economic
3. Military

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Determinants of social mobility-

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 Structural factors
o # of types of occupations
o Technological innovation
o Participate in labor forces- opportunity structures
 Individual Factors
o Accident of birth
o Education
o Race/ethnicity
o Gender
o Luck
o Work ethic
o Lack of thrift store

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Welfare Policy Debate

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  • Conservative
    o Equal opportunity
    o Individualism
    o Free market and little or no government
    o Little or no taxes to the rich
  • Liberal
    o Equal opportunity
    o Sense of community
    o Free market but allows government interventions
    o Tax the rich to redistribute income
80
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Gender economic inequality

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  1. Uneven distribution of men and women in occupations
    a. Pink-collar jobs
  2. Women are less likely to be members of labor Unions
  3. Women work fewer total hours/ week
  4. Mommy track/ Patriarchy
  5. Perception of women as weak decision makers
  6. Glass ceiling- limits to which women can rise above on the corporate ladder
81
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What are women doing to overcome these structural rigidities outside the home

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  1. Equal pay for equal work
  2. Equal pay for comparable worth**
    a. For every $1 a man makes, a woman earns 80 cents
  3. Legislation: Equal rights Amendment ERA
  4. Feminism: radical, liberal, and conservative feminism
  5. Individual efforts, education and advocacy
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Critical Aspect of Each Sociological theory-aspects which sociological theories differ

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  1. Subject Matter (macro vs micro)
  2. Methodology (deductive “Quantitative” or inductive « Qualitative »)
  3. Assumptions(predictability or creativity /interpretations)
  4. Objectives(descriptive vs explanations)
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o Emile Durkheim

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Social Intergration
 Theory of Suicide of Anomie
* Emphasis on the degree of social integration or cohesion and self-regulation (social control)
* Suicide in Europe- late to mid centurary Europe
* High rates of suicide across Europe
* Industrialization was the cause?
* Found that rates were higher for protestants than cahtolics
* Religion might be the widest factor that explained the differences in suicide rates
* Religion split into Catholicism and Protestantism
* Catholicism
o Communal theology
* Protestantism
o Individualism
* Degree of social integration the lack of theory of might to be responsible for the

o Durkhiems Contributions
 Social Integration and self-regulation
 Division of labor
 The rules of sociological methods

o Durkheim’s Suicide(Anomie Theory)
o Societies divided into
 Highly socially integrated
* Small preliterate societies
 Not highly socially integrated
* Advanced capitalist societies (excessive individualism)
o OR!!!
 Mechanic Solidarity
* Small preliterate(high social integration)
 Organic Solidarity
* Advance capitalist

Anomie occurs as society progresses from simpler to more complex forms
Anomie-absence of norms/normlessness

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Robert K. Merton- Meta-theories

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  • Theories of Limited assumptions, and capable of testable hypothesis
85
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Social systems are not mutually exclusive but related in a structurally intiricate manner

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  • The family
  • Political systems
  • Religion
  • Educational institutions
  • Economy
  • Recreational parks
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Functionalists emphasized 3 elements-

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  1. The general interrelatedness or interdependence of system parts
  2. The existence of a “Normal” state of affairs or Equilibrium
  3. The way that all power of the system recognize to return to Normalcy or Equilibrium (self-regulations)
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Critique of Functionalism

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  1. Theory focuses on ONLY benefits of subsystems
  2. Assumes away social conflict by emphasizing integration, cooperation, and cohesion
  3. Assumes away social change by emphasizing social change
  4. Stresses structure over processus (micro vs macro)
  5. Emphasizes dynamic equilibrium and stability of the system
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Anomie Theory of Deviance-

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Individual reactions include the following:
1. Conformity
a. Goals- Accept
b. Means-Accept
2. Innovation
a. Goals-Accept
b. Means-Reject
3. Ritualism
a. Goals-Reject
b. Means-Accept
4. Retreatism
a. Goals-Reject
b. Means-Reject
5. Rebellion
a. Goals-Reject but substitute
b. Means-Reject but Substitute

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Conflict theory- 2 schools of thought

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  1. Critical Conflict Theory
    a. Karl Marx/Marxism
    b. Cannot separate facts from values
    c. subjective
  2. Analytic Conflict Theory
    a. Max Weber/Weberian
    b. We must separate facts from values and focus on nothing but facts
    c. Objective in approach
    d. Value free sociology
    e. Durkheim-factors external to the individual
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o Karl Marx

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 He emphasizes ownership but according to Mills, in modern society control rather than ownership may be the single most important factor is class determination

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o C.W. Mills

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 He use corporations and stockholders to illustrate his point
* Who are owners of corporations?
o Stockholders
 Preferred stocks
* More risk and requires larger sums of money
 Common Stocks
* Average person
* Who controls the corporations?
o Board of Directors, cooperate heads, and managers= top 1%

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 Elitism

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  • He argues that political class and the institutions that give them legitimacy through ideology controlled both the state and the people
93
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o E. O. Wright

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 Wright and Mills agree with Marx on several aspects, but slightly disagree with overwhelming emphasis on Capital accumulation or wealth in determining social class

94
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Objectivity

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  • Derived from the5 sense
    o Taste
    o Smell
    o Touch
    o Sound/hearing
    o Sight
95
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  • Max Weber
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o Value free sociology
o Idealism
o Bureaucracy
* The “Ideal types” Bureaucracy
o Hierarchy of Authority
o Impersonality
 Distance between people
o Division of labors
o Meritocracy

96
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  • Karl Marx believed the state was related to re-distribution of resources-
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social welfare system to bring down the vices of capitalism
o How can you separate values from facts?

97
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Marx

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regardless of the systems of production, one group usually establishes dominance over the other groups

98
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Max Weber

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people that share similar positions in life- He uses lifestyle= as derived from life choices

99
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Marx

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his Communist Manifesto also advocated for a classless society. Recall he maintained that inequality and conflict were inherent in the Capitalist made of production – (The Capital vs Wage Worker) Labor surplus allows the Capitalist remuneration to Capital.
What if the capitalist paid the wage worker his true value?
Marx believed this would lead to a classless society.
A classless society may have no need for the state, he concluded.

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Macro theories

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  • Functionalism
  • Conflict Theory
101
Q

Micro theories

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  • Symbolic interactionism
  • Social learning theory
102
Q
  • George H. Mead
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o Self
 “I” vs “Me”
 Me
* Enables us to socialize
o Significant others (friends, family, peers)
o Generalized others (frat/sorority)
o Self concept

103
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Concepts

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  • Social status- position
    +Ascribed – given to you
    +Archived- earned
  • Roles – duties
    +Role conflict- when role on 2 or more statuses clash
    +Role strain- when roles are the same status clash
  • obligation – responsibility
  • social interactive ( mutally influenced each others behaviors)
104
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Frends theory of personality development over personality consists of 3 parts

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The ID 0-1 ½ years (age)- inate and uncontrollable
Ego 2-3 yrs- age of consciousness (consequences of action)
Super Ego 4-5- age of consciousness (morality-right vs wrong)
Concludes that our personality is therefore completely formed at abt 4-5 yrs of age

105
Q

Psycho-social theory of personality development
-our personality continues to develop throughout the life-cycle
Via- what is Known as crisis

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Identified-
1) crisis of early childhood
2) crisis of middle childhood
3) crisis of adolescence
4) crisis of adulthood
5) crisis of old age

106
Q

Self- I vs Me

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Me-(socialized)
It is the “me” that enables us to engage in socialization and “role-taking”
As children are not passive participants in their social environment

107
Q

Looking Glass- self
Charles Cooley

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We use others as mirror images of ourselves

108
Q

b. Karl Marx and Max Weber

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i. Crime may serve beneficial functions to society
1. Positive
a. Clarifies norms
b. Increases social integration
c. Promotes social change
2. Negative
a. Frodes Trust
b. Victimization
c. Cost to society- human lives, property, incarceration, etc

109
Q

Social Structures

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  1. Social status
  2. Roles
  3. Obligations
  4. Social interactions
110
Q
  • Bureaucratic Organization(formal organization)
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Functions
1. Clear Cut Levels
2. Division of Labor
3. Written Rules
4. Written Communications and Records
5. Impersonality

Dysfunctions
1. Red Tape: A rule is a rule
2. Lack of Communication between Units
3. Bureaucratic Alienation
4. Resisting Alienation
5. The Alienated Bureaucrat
6. Bureaucratic Incompetence

111
Q
  1. Under class
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aged, disabled, widows

112
Q

Critique of GNP/capita

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  • May not always equal income per person
  • There may use another Index called the Gini Coefficient
  • Claims to provide a more accurate measure of social inequality
113
Q

Factors that determine disparity in income b/w men and women

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  1. Union distribution of women in occupation
  2. Women are less likely to be members of labor union
  3. Women work fewer hours/week
  4. Women work in Pink Collar jobs (few benefits)
  5. Sex discrimination
  6. Mommy track (maternity leave)
  7. Perception of women as weak managers
  8. Glass Ceiling
113
Q

Patterns & Gender Inequalities

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  1. Politics – Gap closing soon
  2. Education- gap is closing because more women graduate than men (2011) and more women with PhD than men
  3. Family- independence of women
  4. Corporations
  5. Public health
114
Q

Changing Gender Roles (Alternative Gender Roles of the Future)

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  1. Emergent Pluralism- Traditional exists side- by- side with others pursuing different roles
  2. Conservative Pluralism- different roles for men and women, but valued equally
  3. Melting Pot-no important differences
  4. Assimilation to the Male Model of Success- women encouraged to follow traditional masculine gender roles
  5. Female Exclusion- a continuation of traditional roles