Sociology Wk 2 Flashcards
Week 2 (25 cards)
What is the difference between a more and a folkway?
Mores may carry serious consequences if violated.
Which is an example of informal sanction?
The football team throwing a slushy in Finn’s face because he tried to join the Glee club.
Ivanka Trump is the daughter of a business mogul, her role is an example of.
Ascribed status.
A designer purse that you know would catch everyone’s attention, this type of purchase is a.
Conspicuous consumption.
How did Max Weber define social class?
A person’s wealth, prestige, and power.
The tendency to look for the cultural context in which differences in culture occur and to appreciate those is defined as what?
Cultural relativism.
The disoriented feeling which occurs in the the context of being in a new culture.
Culture shock.
The socio-economic layering of society’s members according to wealth, power, and prestige.
Social stratification.
Examples of Weber’s concept of life chances.
Quality of life, life expectancy, and access to opportunities.
The theory that focuses on the way we use popular culture to make sense of ourselves.
Symbolic interactioism.
Examples of cultural capital.
Listening to classical music, having lots of books growing up, going to museums as a kid,
Having money is not an example.
How did Pierre Bourdieu define social reproduction?
The tendency for social class status to be passed down from generation to the next.
What are the Nacirema?
A native population.
The belief that one’s culture is the right culture is?
Ethnocentrism.
What is the difference between a primary group and secondary?
A primary is small and consist of emotion, secondary is larger and impersonal.
Which of the following is an example of counterculture?
Hippie’s in the 60’s.
In the early 2000’s a show depicted the lives of members of LGBT, this is a glimpse into a?
Subculture.
The term meritocracy is defined as?
A bureaucracy where membership and advancement is based on proven and documented skills.
The poverty line for a family of four is?
24,000
Most people are poor only briefly in the US?
True
Most Americans believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor?
False.
Income inequality has ______ in every US state since the 70’s.
Increased.
What is the difference between sex and gender?
Sex is biological, gender is the extent to which one identifies as.
What does it mean to say that sex and gender are socially constructed?
They include categories that are created by humans and recreated through institutions, and interactions.
