Personal Review: Flashcards
(29 cards)
What are full nesters stage II?
The life stage that includes couples whose youngest child is age six or older, who still absorb many household funds.
What sociologists are less likely to focus on classes organized around productions, and rather a stratification system?
Functionalist.
Are bureaucracies known for their unwritten rules that govern how people are to perform their jobs?
No
What is neoliberalism?
An ideology or philosophy of government that promoted the idea that global investment and global manufacturing is the key to wealth for all. It favors free market, capitalism, and deregulation.
What categorizes ethnicity?ho
Based off of one’s appearance, ancestry, culture, language, religion, dialect, or history and land of origin or habitation as well as how that individual is treated.
What belief recognizes that globalization and technology have changed work and where it’s done?
Neo-fordism.
What is a nuclear family?
Two parents and their children in a single household.
What is the rationalization, specialization, bureaucratization, and commodification of work known as?
McDonaldization. It is the application of certain principles to work, prioritizing efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control.
What is proletarianization?
The creation of a junior wage-working class among people with professional qualifications, creating a “power scale” within a working place.
What does BIPOC refer to?
Black, indigenous, and people of colour.
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
Prejudice is the preconceived opinion or judgement about a person/group based on their membership in a social group. Discrimination is acted upon, which may exclude or treat an individual differently based on one’s own prejudice.
What societies have culture focused on efficiency, consumerism, and high standards of living?
Industrial.
T/F: It is easy to reinforce the law in hiring practices and prove that racialized discrimination has taken place.
False.
Concerns about home ____ and children’s health led mothers to assume responsibility for cleaning as part of their duty of health promotion.
Hygiene.
Have neoliberalism, globalization, and technological development produced increases in labour unions?
Yes.
What was the head tax?
A payment demanded from each person of Chinese origin introduced when Parliament passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885.
What is indigenous data sovereignty?
The term that describes the rights of Indigenous people to control data about them and related to them.
What is our sociological imagination?
An ability to connect personal experience to larger social structures.
What is Veblen’s conspicuous consumption?
A practice that included the purchasing of valuable goods in order to express class belonging and social status.
What development did sociology emerge from?
Technology.
What bill was passed by the senate with an interest of adding gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act in June 2017?
C-279.
What does social stratification imply?
A deprivation of well being and cultural well-being.
Who wrote The Second Sex (1949) which explores how societies define women in relation to men?
Simone de Beauvoir.
What proposes that knowledge and truth are socially constructed and relative to the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which they emerge?
Postmodernism.
