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Final Exam Notes Flashcards

1
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Wealth Distribution

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Total wealth - including pension funds, housing, assets, and cash

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Income Distribution

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Income - wages, investments, etc.

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Stratification

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Any system of ranking people in society
Could include political, gendered, economic, etc.

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Strata

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Ranks society by one principle (wealth for example) then compares them in these groups
Quantitative

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Class

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Describes certain shared economic features or situations in a group.
Qualitative

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Group

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Groups are self defined. They exist because members have a unity of interests

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Quantile

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Statistical units of indentical sized chunks of population

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Decile

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Quantile
One tenth of the population

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Quintile

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Quantile
One fifth of the population

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Working Class

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Blue Collar
Hourly wage
Few Prospects for Promotion

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Middle Class

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White collar
monthly/annual salary
Career with long term prospects

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Productive Class

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Groups defined by position within structure of production (Marx)

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Distributive Class

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Classes defined by share of the rewards of society (Weber)

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Caste System

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Position in hierarchy determined at birth

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Estates

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Classes defined by laws. Life feudal aristocracy

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Davis-Moore Hypothesis

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Society rewards those who do difficult but necessary positions highly. This attracts most talented to do them

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Social Mobility

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Ability to change social class position

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Open System

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It is possible for someone to improve social position

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Creese, Guppy & Meisner (1991)

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Greatest opportunities exist for the rich. Not true that poor are just lazy

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Life Chances

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opportunities to climb social hierarchy

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Absolute Poverty

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Universal Standard - ability to get food and shelter

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Relative Poverty

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Poverty compared to other members of society - how far behind are you?

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Poverty Trap

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Mechanism that make it hard for people to escape poverty
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Food Desert

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Area without easy access to healthy foods

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Richard Sennet & Jonathan Cobb

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Strong correlation between poverty and stress-related illness, shorter lifespan

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Oscar Lewis

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Culture of Poverty:
term for values, norms & behaviour patters of some urban poor.

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Edwin Sutherland

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undermines idea that poor are inherently criminal by looking at crimes committed by the wealthy

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Delinquent

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Michel Foucault
ill-disciplined individual, petty criminal

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28
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Erik Olin Wright

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leading Marxist
class is defined by ownership of means of production
Class is central - all other forms of inequality stem from class

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John Goldthorpe

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leading Weberian
Class is defined by what resources you own
economic class is one form of many forms of inequality

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Materialist conception of history

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Marx’s basic assumption
In order to have society, there needs to be humans. In order to understand society, we need to understand how that society produces food, shelter, etc.

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Means of Production

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Marx’s term for the tools, technologies, resources, etc. that are available to a society at a particular moment in time in order to meet those material needs

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Mode of Production

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Overall structure of social relations in a society at a specific point.
For example - the development of agriculture made landowners powerful

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Ralf Dahrendorf

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traces significant changes in economic organization that transform classes
Rise in shareholding creates new class of managers and CEO’s

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34
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Petty Bourgeoisie

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self employed, independent, not powerful enough to employ others

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35
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Gerhard Lenski

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Status Inconsistency - rank in one class system may differ in another
Monopolization of physical force

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Taylorism or Scientific Management

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Aims at absolute efficiency in the workplace, especially factories
FREDERICK TAYLOR

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Deskilling

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Introducing technology to make a job easier

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38
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Harry Braverman

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Monopoly capital - increasing homogenization and polarization of work in two groups:
small number of high skilled, high paid
Large mass of unskilled workers

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Monopoly Capital

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Giant corporation dominate economy, forcing you to work for them

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Alienation

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Feeling distant from life, work , other people. Sense of no control
Caused by selling my labor

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Melvin Seeman

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Alienation leads to:
Powerlessness
Meaninglessness
Normlessness
Isolation
Self-Estrangement

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Karasek & Theorell

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workers who had control of tasks had significantly lower rates of stress-related illness

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Exploitation

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Profiting at expense of another

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44
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Labor Union

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Organization of workers for collective bargaining of pay, etc.

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Class Conflict

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Marx - classes inherently clash head
Weber - interclass conflict more likely

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Terry Clark & Seymour Lipset

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people’s vote is based on identity and ascribed status instead of class agenda

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47
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Sex

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Distinguished by biological features
Male/Female

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Gender

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Social & Cultural ideas of masculine or feminine behaviour

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49
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Gender Inequality

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Women suck at:
Job wage
wealth
poverty after divorce
Education
Health
HIV / AIDS
Stress
Domestic work
Victims of violence

50
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Vertical Differentiation

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Related to place in a hierarchy
Men are more likely to be managers

51
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Horizontal differentiation

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Related to differences in careers of comparable prestige & pay
Police = man
HR = woman

52
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Glass Ceiling

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Unofficial barrier to female promotion

53
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Rosabeth Kanter

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Women weren’t promoted because they aren’t assertive enough - not true
women had little autonomy, their opportunities were tied to men they relied on

54
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Ann Oakley

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Many women hated housework, found it demeaning

55
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Arlie Hochschild

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Women are responsible for 70% of domestic labor.
Male jobs were more free and less tightly scheduled (gardening vs cooking)

Women are disproportionately employed in jobs requiring emotional labor (tips)

56
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Second Shift

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women expected to work a job and do domestic labor

57
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Emotional Labor

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Predominantly in jobs where you bave to be positive towards customer

58
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Suzanne Bianchi

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women typically bear the burden of emotional care for family

59
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Armstrong & Armstrong

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Double ghetto - women are exploited both at work and at home

60
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Linearity of Kinship

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whose name does family take?
Matrilineal, patrilineal, bilateral

61
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Authority

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which parent is authoritative?
matriarchy, patriarchy, egalitarian

62
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Legal Personality

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Recognition that I have rights and obligations.
Women used to not have this, it was tied to husband

63
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First Wave Feminism

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19th - early 20th century
de iure - legal exclusion of women

64
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Second-Wave Feminism

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1960’s-1990’s
de facto - women in workplace, family
violence against women

65
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Third-Wave Feminism

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1980-Now
Some gay shi

66
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Liberal Feminism

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inequality based on legal rights and political freedom

67
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Marxist Feminism

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Inequality based on class, male ownership of society

68
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Radical Feminism

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men always and inevitably benefit from exploitation of women

69
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Socialist Feminism

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Criticizes both class and sex

70
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Kimberle Crenshaw

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Intersectionality - getting hate for being black AND woman AND midget AND a bunch of other stuff

71
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Sex Role Rigidity

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Male and female roles are natural and unchangeable

72
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Gender Regimes

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Gender arrangements within smaller systems, not society as a whole
-wife must cook

73
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Gender Socialization

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The way children are taught socially approved gender roles

74
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Carol Gilligan

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gender socialization teaches boys to be autonomous and girls to be dependent

75
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Essentialism

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Belief in unchangeable ‘human nature’

76
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Sex
Sexuality
Gender Identity
Gender Expression
Gender Roles

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XX or XY Chromosome
Who you fuck
internal sense of male or female
External presentation male/female
Social roles associated with gender

77
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Judith Butler

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Questions if biological sex is binary
There is no single idea of masculine/feminine

78
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Gender Binarism

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Male and Female. No others

79
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Heteronormativity

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doesn’t do that he/she shit. Pick one lane and stay in it

80
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Performativity

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genders are just roles that we play

81
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Appearance Norms

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Ideal standards of beauty

82
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Spitzer et al.

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ideal women have become thinner, while in reality women have become bigger.
Ideal man has become more muscular

83
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Male Gaze

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imaginary male onlooker who judges women by masculine standards.
Women often value themselves on how men see them

84
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The Other

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De Beauvoir
Men treat women as a means to their own self-realisation
The woman is the Muse, to inspire the man to do great deeds

85
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Sexual Scripts

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The ‘accepted’ way to behave when fucking

86
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Eve Kosowsky Sedgwick

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Homosociality
People often socialize with only their own gender

87
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Sexual Double Standard

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If lock opened by many key, shitty lock
If key opens many locks, great key

88
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Paraphilla

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Weird sex kinks
Gay used to be on this list

89
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Kinsey Report
Alfred Kinsey

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Americans are much more sexually varied than previously believed

90
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The Social Organisation of Sexuality Report

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Americans are less sexually varied than in the Kinsey Report

91
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BioPower

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Modern society’s use of science to control our lives and reproduction
Foucault

92
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Scientific Racism

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using science to prove white is right

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Race

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describes a group of people assumed to share common ancestry, features, characteristics, etc.

93
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Comte Arthur de Gobineau

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Wrote en essay on the inequality of Human Races

94
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Murray & Herrnstein

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used IQ tests to say blacks r dumb

95
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Hannah Arendt

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‘race’ emerged as Europeans sought an ideology to justify treating those they colonized as unworthy of equal rights

96
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Race, Racial group
Ethicity, ethnic group

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Caucasian, African (visible features)
German, Nigerian (ancestry, culture)

96
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Racialization

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Attemps to impose racial interpretations when unnecessary

97
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William Julius Wilson

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provides concrete ways to explore the impact of racism by looking at effect on social stratification

98
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Prejudice
Discrimination

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Negative opinions or beliefs
Exclusive practises

99
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Marianne Bertrand & Senhil Mullainathan

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Are Emily & Greg more employable than Lakisha & Jamal?

100
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Social Distance

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How far people are willing to mix with members of others groups. and how far groups are excluded from majority of society

101
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Emory S Bogardus

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measured prejudice using Social Distance
Tolerance grows over time

102
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Institutional Racism
Expressed Racism

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outcome of certain social institutions
Expressed by individuals

103
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Karl Gunnar Myrdal

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Racial Segregation book
suggests serious government intervention

Underclass - long-term poor

104
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John Howard Griffin

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became black for a day in the Deep South and was affected by racism

105
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Peggy McIntosh

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describes advantages of white people
-able to use credit cards without suspicion

106
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WEB Dubois

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Double Consciousness
African American -> both black and American

107
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Frantz Fanon

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black dude in a French colony, didn’t like racism

108
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Claude Steel & Joshua Aronson

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Stereotype threat - blacks did worse on test when told it was testing if blacks r dumb

109
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Edward Said

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Orientalism
How Westerners portray the entire East as one image

110
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Benedict Anderson

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Imagined Community
Social, ethinc or racial grouping that is treated as a distinct thing, like a nation

111
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Robert Bellah

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major sporting events are like a civil religion

112
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Will Kymlicka

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National Minority
distinct group with own rights
First Nations

113
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Diaspora

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global dispersion of immigrants of particular origin
‘the Chinese are taking over’

114
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Ethnic Enclave

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alot of one particular group in a spot
Lots of brown people in Forest Lawn

115
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William Thomas & Floria Znaniecki

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Marginality - being between two cultures, especially after imigrating
This study was for Polish to North America

116
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Imperialism

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Extension of European economic hegemony into direct political control from Europe

Rule by a conqueror

117
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World Systems Theory

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Extension of social theory to cover globe

Rich Countries take cheap labor and materials from poor countries, and give them high value goods

118
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Immanuel Wallerstein

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Modern World System - book
There is no one empire - but many systems controlled by one entity - unstable

119
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Neo Colonialism

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Continued exploitation and domination of poor nations by former imperial powers, even after the empire

120
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Thomas Sankara

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black guy from Burkina Faso, basically made alot of money in agriculture.

French business interests paid his friend to overthrow him

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