vids 8-10

Question 1

Explain how scapegoat theory explains racism.

Answer 1

defense mechanism that frustrated people blame another more disadvantaged group for the troubles they face, even if the problems come from more structural reasons.

Question 2

Define authoritarianism and explain how authoritarian personality theory explains racism.

Answer 2

Authoritarian personality sees the desire for order, tradition, maintaining status quo.

Question 3

Explain how culture theory explains racism.

Answer 3

prejudice is in everyone because we are products of the culture we live in, which is also a prejudiced culture.

Question 4

Explain how social distance theory explains racism.

Answer 4

How much you see another race as an “other”. The likelihood you might hold stereotypical or prejudiced views about another racial group.

Question 5

pluralism

Answer 5

a state in which all races and ethnicities are distinct. but have equal social standing

Question 6

assimilation.

Answer 6

minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.

Question 7

gender performanc

Answer 7

• self presentation
• how we walk and talk, what we wear
• ways of making claims of masculinity and feminity

Question 8

sexual scripts

Answer 8

cultural prescriptions that dictate the when, where, how and with-whom of sex and what that sex means when it happens
- ex sex between two people

Question 9

heteronormativity.

Answer 9

the idea that are two genders and that gender is also biological sex.
- makes it seem heterosexuality it is directly linked to biological sex and defines by dominant sexual scripts cuz of patriarchy.

Question 10

Lombroso definition of deviants

Answer 10

• deviants are those of different physical characteristics
• anything close to a more primate form

Question 11

Sheldon argue about deviant people

Answer 11

men who were more muscular and athletic were more likely to be deviant

Question 12

containment theory

Answer 12

• deviance is essentially a matter of impulse control

Question 13

3 major principles/ideas that inform the sociological understanding of deviance

Answer 13

• deviance varies amoung cultural norms
• people are deviant because they’re labeled as deviant – more about society’s response and self-fulfilling prophecy
• defining social norms involves social power – obviously those who are in power make these norms