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