Soc 101 - Final Exam

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Unequal distribution of wealth, power and prestige

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A measure of wealth, power, and prestige, an individual’s place within a class

A system of stratification based on access to resources such as wealth, property, power, and prestige

Someone’s perception of your race, not your own

Socially constructed; based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of ppl

Social category Applied to a group with shared ancestry or cultural heritage

Symbolizes your whole or part of your ethnicity

Changing how open you are with your ethnicity

An idea about the characteristics of a group that is applied to all members of that group and is unlikely to change regardless of the evidence against it

Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership in a social group; usually motivated by prejudice

Attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding actions and decisions in an unconscious manner

Everyday uses of subtle verbal and nonverbal communications that convey denigrating or dismissive messages to members of certain social groups

The belief that your ethnicity is superior to anyone else’s and judging other cultures based off of your own

The geographical separation of the poor from the rest of an area’s population

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Physical or mental impairments

Signs of a flawed character

Membership in a discredited or oppressed group

An individual who has been stigmatized and deemed deviant

Presenting yourself as a different group than the stigmatized people you belong too

Focused on most obvious forms of deviant behavior such as crime m, mental illness, and sexual deviance

Appreciate the diversity and complexity of a particular social world. Sociologists must seek insight without passing judgement

The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as class stays is passed down from one generation to the next

The ability to impose ones will on others

Social honor that comes from your membership status within society

Habits, tastes, knowledge, and other cultural assets that give on an advantage in society

Marrying “up” in the social class hierarchy

Marrying down in the social class hierarchy

Upward or downward changes in class statues

Staying in the same social class but change occupations

The removal of the rights of citizenship through economic, political, and legal means

An entrenched attitude that allows the poor to accept their fate

Cannot provide the basic necessities

A comparison of how poor you may be compared to median incomes for example

People have a need to see the world as orderly and fair. People in poverty or oppression are deserving of their fate

An ideology or set of beliefs that one race or ethnic group is superior to another

The character or quality of being sexual

The inclination to feel sexual desire toward people of a particular gender

Theory about gender and sexual identity; emphasizes the importance of difference and rejects ideas of innate identities or restrictive categories

An effort to end the subordination of women. In three different waves

Fear of or discrimination toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people

Fear of or discrimination toward gender nonconforming people

Lack of sexual attraction of any kind

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Social practices that are repeated continuously

Systems and structures that organize daily life; paradoxical

An ideology that removes race as an explanation for any form of unequal treatment

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Power is shared and is equal for all. System of checks and balances

C. Wright Mills. Small group of elites who work through institutions to benefit themselves

Programs such as affirmative action that are unfair or target whites

Dubois term for the divided identity experienced by blacks in the U.S

Set of policies that support members of disadvantaged groups

An individuals membership in one of the two categories- male or female - based on biological factors

A person whose chromosomes or sex characteristics are neither exclusively male nor exclusively female

The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members

An individuals behavioral manifestations of gender

An individuals self definition or sense of gender

Two or more members related by blood, marriage, adoption who share a household.

Historically culturally situationally and socially constructed

Marrying one person at a time

Multiple spouses at one time

Mates who are similar to us in different aspects such as age religion education and more

Mates who are similar to us in different aspects such as age religion education and more

Choosing mates based on geographical proximity

Marrying outside your social group ( religious, race, etc g

Cultural pressure to marry someone from the same social group

Coined in 1953 by Hoscchild. The idea of constantly balancing.emotion work within your life.

The free invisible work that women take to keep track of the little things that hold the household together

The labor performed at home in addition to the labor performed in one’s profession

A planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social Cohen soon and teamwork. Bonded by a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision