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Midterm 2
Covers Chap 5, 7, and 8 of New Society
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/01/2012

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Define closed social stratification and give an example.
Definition
Born into the class you will stay in as you grow up. Limited jobs you can do, no chances to move up the ladder. Eg: Caste System.
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Define and differentiate between absolute and relative poverty
Definition
Relative-inability to secure average standard of living
Absolute-Inability to attain the basic necessities of life
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Differentiate between wealth and income
Definition
Income - Money being made
Wealth - Accumulation of assets.
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How much of the wealth in Canada do the richest 10% of people control?
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45%
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How much wealth in Canada do the poorest 50% of people control?
Definition
10%
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What does Christopher Sarlo think of poverty in Canada?
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He thinks we exaggerate the poverty we have, that real poverty is being confused with middle class amenities.
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LICO is a measure of what?
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Relative Poverty
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Define open social stratification and give an example.
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There are opportunities to move up or down the social ladder in terms of class. Eg: Meritocracy
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Differentiate ascribed and achieved status. Give one example of each.
Definition
Ascribed - Born into it, hard or impossible to change EG. gender, disability.
Achieved - You have the chance to change according to your achievements. EG. Social class.
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Would a functionalist or conflict theorist be more in favour of capitalism?
Definition
functionalist
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Was Erik Olin Wright a Neo-Marxist or Neo-Weberian?
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Neo-Marxist. However, his ideas were much closer to Weber.
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What is the "law of accumulation"? Who created it?
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As the rich obtain more of society's wealth, the poor eventually will have no money and the system will collapse. Marx
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What are Erik Olin Wright's classes in order from richest to poorest?
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Capitalist
Managerial
Small Business
Working
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Differentiate between the theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx.
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Marx predicted that the capitalist system would crash whereas Weber said stratification would remain relatively unchanged. Also, Weber defined stratification in terms of party and prestige(status) as well as class.
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What is Marx's "lumpenproletariat"?
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The ultra poor.
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What does Goffman mean with deference?
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Poorer people will show respect for people who appear/are richer than them. Eg. Looking down when passing.
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What are the three subdivisions of Essentialism regarding sex and gender?
Definition
Brain Studies, Sociobiology, and Freudian Theory.
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Who discovered/described the sexual continuum?
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Kinsey
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What is the importance of the sexual continuum?
Definition
It describes the many sexual behaviours and orientations of people. Allows us to lose the straight vs gay division.
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What three factors does Social Constructionism blame for gender "differences"?
Definition
Warfare and Conquest
Plow Agriculture
Separation of Private and Public Sectors.
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Differentiate between prejudice and discrimination.
Definition
Prejudice is racist thought
Discrimination is racist action
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What is stereotyping?
Definition
exaggerating oversimplified characteristics of social groups
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What is the "Thomas Theorem"?
Definition
If we define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
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Differentiate between polite and subliminal racism.
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Polite is subtle, backhanded, passive-agressive.
Subliminal is a racist act that is not originally intended to be racist.
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Differentiate between systemic and systematic racism.
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Systemic is not intended to be unfair to any social group, where systematic is specifically designed to put one social group at advantage or disadvantage.
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What kind of racism do systemic and systematic fall under?
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Institutional
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What kind of racism do everyday and ideological fall under?
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Cultural
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Differentiate between everyday and ideological racism. Give examples.
Definition
everyday stems from or is embedded in our language, in words such as black, white, gay.
Ideological stems from values, and how we judge what is fair and equal treatment. Eg. Turbans in the RCMP
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What are Van Der Berghe's main points when explaining racism
Definition
There is a gene that causes us to be inherently nepotistic, therefore we will never be able to get rid of racism entirely.
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