sociology chapter 8&9 vocabulary

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Ethnic group

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Is a category of of people who as a result of their shared cultural heritage, are regarded as being socially distinct

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Race

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Is a category of people who are regarded a socially distinct because they share genetically transmitted physical characteristics

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Genocide

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Is the extermination of entire populations

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Minority group

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Refers to people whose physical appearance or cultural practices are unlike those of the dominant group, making them susceptible to different and unequal treatment

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Prejudice

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Is an irrational, inflexible attitude toward an entire category of people (attitude)

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Discrimination

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Is unequal treatment to people on the grounds of their group membership (action)

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Individual Discrimination

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Is the negative treatment of one person by another

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Institution Discrimination

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Refers to unequal treatment on the grounds of group membership, that is entrenched in social customs

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Theory

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Is a statement that organizes a set o concepts in a meaningful way, by explaining the relationships among them

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Relative Deprivation

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Is a lack of resources or rewards in ones standard of living, in comparison with those of others in the society

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Absolute Deprivation

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Is the inability to afford minimal standards of food, clothing, shelter, and health care

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Is a prediction that’s leads to behavior that makes the prediction come true

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Genocide

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The dominant group tires to destroy the minority

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Popular transfer

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Te dominant group expels the minority

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Internal Colonialism

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The dominant group exploits the minority

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Segregation

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The dominant group structures the social institutions to maintain minimal contact with the minority

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Assimilation

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The dominant group absorbs the minority

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Multiculturalism

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The dominant group encourages racial and ethnic variation; when finally successful, there is no longer a dominant group

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Power elite

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Those who make the big decisions in the US

-they are behind government decisions

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Power elite

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They also include foreign and domestic policy

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Power

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The ability to get your own own way in spite of opposition

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Power

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This usually lies in the hands of the hands of the wealthy

It’s unequally shared in the u.s.

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Social class

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A form of social structure: a large group of people who rank closely to one another in terms of property, power, and prestige

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Social stratification

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Structures inequality among entire social rewards who have different access to social rewards as a result of their status of hierarchy

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Assets & Income

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The two components of wealthy

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Property

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Assets

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Income

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Earnings, salaries, and wages

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Prestige

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Status

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Prestige

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Only shopping at expensive stores

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Status inconcity

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Poor but high class, rich but low class

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Karl Marx

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This man though about status inconsisty

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Stress

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Death/mortality rates are high in lower class

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Mental health

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This is in lower classes

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Mental health

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This is higher classes have more ways to cope with those issues

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Social mobility

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Refers to the movement of individual from one social class to another—open system

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Vertical mobility

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Change in an individuals status as he/she moves up or down

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Vertical mobility

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Promotion; meat dep. to manager | Promotion; sent back to minor league from upper league

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Horizontal

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Where a person stays on the same level (social plane) but changes status

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Intergeneration mobility

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Same social mobility which takes place between generations- requires 2 gens

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Intragenerational mobility

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Takes place with the same generation

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Intergenerational mobility

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Taxi driver daughter becomes physician

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Intragenerational mobility

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5 brothers get jobs at car factory, 5th one becomes a professor

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Exchange mobility

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Openings are created at the top by downward mobility

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Exchange mobility

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Million working class people are trained then promoted to higher level; but at the same time raw material sellers don't want to sell; so another one million will have to go down

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Poverty

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Every year government computes a dollar amount called the poverty line

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Factors that make likely good to be poor

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Southern states in U.S have higher poverty rates | Also depends on ethnicity

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Ethnocentrism

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Pluralistic Society

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Has fm different races & ethnicity

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Ethnic work

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Try to keep their culture alive

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Pluralistic society

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Has dominant groups, and dominant minority groups

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Dominant groups

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Control economic resource

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Dominant minority groups

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Has reduced access to the resources

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Racism

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People believing that one race is superior to another (ethnocentrism)

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Frustration theory of prejudice

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Frustration theory of prejudice

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Frustrated because of deprivation

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Scapegoat theory

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Believes that society is the reason for their failure

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Authoritarian personality theory

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By IW Adorno | Relationship between harsh early childhood experiences

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The symbolic Interactionism of race

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Assimilation

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Dominant + minority= blend

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Example of multiculturalism

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San Francisco- China town

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Jan 1, 1763

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Proclamation emancipation

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1867-1877

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Reconstruction period

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1870

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15 amendment

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Cultural nation

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Refers to the movements/ organizations which encourages a taught the customs characteristics of black people in a positive light

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What are the three types of sexism?

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Cultural, individual, and institutional

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What is cultural sexism?

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Culture itself

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What is individual sexism?

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The way we view, react

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What is institutional sexism?

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In employment and religion

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What are factors of life expectancy?

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Medical care, adequate solitaion, environmental pollution, warfare, an availability if handguns

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Phases of life cycle

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Infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age and old age

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What are different aspects of aging?

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It is multice biological

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White collar crime

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Edwin Sutherland's term for crimes committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations; false advertising, price fixing, briber of public officials