Terms to Review Flashcards
White Flight
White families move to suburbs to avoid integrated schools
Low-Status Consistency
Easy to move between social classes
High Status Consistency
Hard to move between social classes
Folkway
Unofficial Norms
Mores
Official Norms
Taboo
Highly Illegal
Gemeinschaft
Small, Personal Community
Gesellschaft
Large, Professional Community
Moral Holiday
Socially Designated time were people can break certain norms
Tokenism
Where minorities are represented only for the sake of minority
Urban Sprawl
Expansion of urban areas into surrounding regions (suburbs) (20th century)
Urbanization
The movement to urban cities
Suburbanization
The movement to suburbs
Gentrification
A process where a suburb develops rapidly. Favors the rich newcomers
Urban revitalization
Devoting of urban lands for environmental purposes
Code Mixing
Using multiple styles of English in the same conversation
Code Switching
Using a different style of English in a discussion
Collective Effervescence
The feeling of collective belonging
Glass Escalator
Men are promoted quicker than women in female-lead industries
Fecundity
Reproductive potential of a population (not accurate)
Rural rebound
The process where people move from suburbs to rural land
Food Desert
Area with limited access to good food
Social Movement
A group of people with a common social goal
Power in Bureaucracy
At the top
Ecclesia
Religious organization that is formally connected to the government
Anomie
A situation where there are few set norms which leads to social chaos
Introduced Social Imagination
Wright Mills pushed for the responsibilities for an individual in a society
Structural Mobility
Changes in the social class of a people group
Social Capital
The information, connections, and privileges that help people leverage social networks
Medicalization
When a condition that was once considered normal now requires medical treatment
Income polarization
Widening gap between the incomes of the rich and poor
Émile Durkheim’s opinion on deviance
It is functional, normal, and universal
Secret society system
When a group organizes secret activities
What did Max Weber believe about religion?
Most impactful social institution
Hawthorne Effect
When subjects behave differently because they know they are being obervered
Jane Addams
Won Nobel prize. Important woman’s rights activist
Institutions are…
the patterns of social organization that structure social life
Organic Solidary
The way labor is divided so that each person has a specific role to play
Mary Wollstonecraft
One of the first feminists
What causes the increase in urbanization?
Industrial Development
The primary agent of socialization
Family
Ethnographic Analysis
The observer embeds themselves into the social scene
Group
Collection of people with similar characteristics
