End of Semester 2 Exam Flashcards
(24 cards)
What is gender socialization?
The process where individuals are taught how to behave in accordance with their assigned gender.
What is role theory?
Most everyday activity is the acting out of socially defined categories (e.g., mother, father, child). Each role has a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms, and behavior’s that a person has to face and fulfil.
What are gender roles?
How we’re expected to act, speak, dress and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex.
What is the glass ceiling?
A social barrier that prevents women (and marginalized people) from advancement in a corporate setting. It can be broken but is difficult to do so.
What is the gender pay gap?
The difference in percentage form between what men and women are paid. However, factures like career choices e.g.. the vast majority of teachers and healthcare workers are women, which are industries that do not pay very well.
What is the Reproduction of Mothering?
In our culture girls’ relationships with their mothers are more intense and lingering than with their fathers.
What is hegemonic masculinity?
The way that the masculine norms/being a man at a given time are represented. E.g. Being muscular, heterosexual, risk-taking, stoicism etc. Men who practice hegemonic masculinity statistically are more likely to deal with mental health challenges, engade in sexual violence and can be detrimental to BOTH men and women.
What is intersectionality?
The ways in which different aspects of a person’s identity interact, can expose them to overlapping forms of discrimination. E.g. race. sexual orientation. gender. sex.
What are poverty cycles?
A term used to describe the phenomenon where poor families stay in poverty for three generations minimum. If your grandparents were poor, your parents were poor, the odds are decent that you, too, will be poor.
What is the Davis-Moore thesis?
The theory asserts that inequality is necessary and beneficial to society to motivate individuals to train for and perform complex roles. E.g. A doctor must train for years before being able to practice therefore training for years, being beneficial to society means they receive respect.
What is Marxism?
Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes, the bourgeoisie/capitalists, and the proletariat/workers defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution.
Class Consciousness
An awareness of one’s social and/or economic class relative to others.
Social Mobility
Change in a person’s socio-economic situation, either in relation to their parents or throughout their lifetime. E.g. first person in their family to get a degree, or starting a very successful business.
Status Inconsistency
A discrepancy between the position a person holds in one domain of their social environment comparative to their position in another domain. For example, being overeducated for a job, or not using your skills in your job.
Life Chances.
An individual’s opportunities to improve their chances of “doing well” for themselves and improve their quality of life.
Capital
A person’s status. E.g. high capital = high status and vice versa.
Conspicuous Consumption
The purchase of goods or services for the specific purpose of displaying a persons wealth.
The Veil
The existence of a barrier prohibiting genuine understanding and equality between Black people and White people as the Veil.
Double Consciousness
The struggle African Americans face to remain true to black culture while at the same time conforming to the dominant white society.
Institutional Racism
Policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race.
‘Colour-blind’ racism
Color blindness is rooted in the belief that racial group membership and race-based differences should not be taken into account when decisions are made, impressions are formed, and behaviors are enacted.
Racial formation theory
The content and importance of racial categories are determined by social, economic, and political forces.
Racialization
The processes by which a group of people is defined by their “race.”
Assimilation theory
The process by which a minority integrates socially, culturally, and/or politically into a larger, dominant culture and society
