unit 2

Question 1

socioeconomic status

Answer 1

a measure of social status indicated by some combination of income, wealth, occupational prestige and education

Question 2

medicalization

Answer 2

the process by which issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed as such

Question 3

glass elevator

Answer 3

tendency for men, those working in female occupations, to be promoted above their peers

Question 4

morbidity

Answer 4

rates of sickness

Question 5

caste system

Answer 5

a religiously based system of stratification characterized by no social mobility

Question 6

racism

Answer 6

the belief that members of a different races possess different and unequal traits

Question 7

status hierarchy

Answer 7

system of stratification based on social prestige

Question 8

de facto segregation

Answer 8

separation of races based on individual preferences

Question 9

stratification

Answer 9

systematic inequalities between groups of people, measures by income, wealth, occupational prestige or educational attainment

Question 10

elite-mass dichotomy

Answer 10

system of stratification characterized as a small group of governing elites

Question 11

occupational prestige

Answer 11

measure of occupational standing or the relative power of occupations

Question 12

ethnocentrism

Answer 12

the judgment of other groups by ones own standards and values

Question 13

perverse incentives

Answer 13

the argument that welfare and social services will make the poor less likely to work or take care of themselves

Question 14

epidemiology

Answer 14

the study of the distribution of illness across a population

Question 15

social mobility

Answer 15

movement from one social class to another

Question 16

discrimination

Answer 16

negative acts toward members of other races

Question 17

mortality

Answer 17

rates of death

Question 18

feminism

Answer 18

a political movement that seeks to address gender inequality

Question 19

de juro segregation

Answer 19

the separation of races based on laws

Question 20

class system

Answer 20

an economically based system of stratification with somewhat loose social mobility

Question 21

prejudice

Answer 21

negative thoughts or feelings about other races

Question 22

wealth

Answer 22

the total assets and savings held by a family

Question 23

redlining

Answer 23

process by which the government denied financial services to certain neighborhoods based on their racial composition

Question 24

estate system

Answer 24

a politically based system of stratification characterized by limited social mobility

Question 25

glass ceiling

Answer 25

the tendency for women to encounter barriers to promotion at high career levels

Question 26

racialization

Answer 26

the process by which some groups come to be seen as members of a race

Question 27

culture of poverty

Answer 27

poor people adopt behaviors and attitudes that reinforce their own poverty and is different from that of the middle class

Question 28

bell curve

Answer 28

the argument that poor people are less able or intelligent than those who are middle class