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30 Cards in this Set
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Compare/ contrast wealth and income.
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wealth- the total value of everything someone owns, minus the debts
income- money received, usually from a job, business or assets |
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What is power elite? Who?
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C. Wright Mills
-term for the top people in the US corporations, military and politics who make the nation's major decisions |
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What is an anomie? Who?
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Durkheim
a condition of society in which people become detached from the norms that usually guide their behavior |
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What are contradictory class locations? Who?
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Erik Wright
position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests |
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Who is the underclass?
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a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year across generations
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What is intergenerational mobility?
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the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next
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What is structural mobility?
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movement up or down the social class ladder that is due to changes in the structure of society, not to individual efforts
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What is exchange mobility?
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about the same numbers of people moving up and down the social class ladder such that on balance, the social class system shows little change
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How do we calculate the poverty line?
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includes incomes that are three times a low cost food budget
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What is the feminization of poverty?
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refers to the situation that most poor families in the US are headed by women
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What is deferred gratification?
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doing without something in the present in the hope of achieving greater gains in the future
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What is the Horatio Algo myth?
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the belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough
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What is gender stratification?
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males/ females have unequal access to power, prestige and property
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Sex vs. gender
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biological characteristics vs. learned behaviors
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What is feminism?
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the philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically and socially equal
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What is the glass ceiling?
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the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels at work
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What is genocide generally based on?
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race or ethnicity
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Race vs. Ethnicity
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race- a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups
ethnicity- having distinctive cultural characteristics |
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What is ethnic work?
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activities designated to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity
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Discrimination vs. prejudice
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act vs. attitude
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Institutional discrimination AKA
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systemic discrimination
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What is institutional discrimination?
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negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society's institutions
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What is authoritarian personality? Who?
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Theodor Adorno
people who are prejudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority and submissiveness to superiors |
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Explain the split labor market.
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workers split along racial, ethnic, gender, age etc., this split is exploited by owners to weaken the bargaining power of workers
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Explain the term, compartmentalize.
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to separate acts from feelings or attitudes
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What is ethnic cleansing?
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a policy of eliminating a population, includes forcible expulsion and genocide
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What is internal colonialism?
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the policy of exploiting minority groups for economic gain
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What is WASP? white ethnics?
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white angle saxon protestants
white immigrants to the US that differ from the WASP culture |
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Rising expectations, if unfulfilled lead to...
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increased frustration
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What is pan-Indianism?
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a movement that focuses on common elements in the cultures of Native Americans in order to develop a cross-tribal self identity and to work toward the welfare of Native Americans
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