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| a system by which society ranks categories of people due to what they or their families do in society |
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| beliefs that support the social system |
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| each individual is born into a certain status level with certain jobs and social norms |
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| like caste system, except has to do with land ownership |
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| people defined by jobs they do and positions they hold, ability to move up and down in status |
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| social position is based on acheivement, in theory everybody has equal opportunity, but that's often not the case |
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| also known as mobility, the ease of which it is for a person to move up or down in status |
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| Intragenerational Mobility |
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| movement of one person to another status |
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| Intergenerational Mobility |
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| child takes a different status than their parent |
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| movement up or down the socioeconomic ladder |
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| movement within the same socioeconomic ladder |
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| mobility that takes place because of changes in the economic structure of society, ex. after WWII |
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| own the factories and means of business |
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| these people sell their labor |
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| all products are only made of material and labor |
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| capitalization causes people to lose their creative abilities and feel out of place |
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| Weber's View of Stratification |
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| stratification based on capitalism, power, and prestige |
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| stratification based on reputation, fame, or respect for one's position |
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| stratification based on access to political decisions |
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| Mills says that people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder use power, prestige, and class to help govern society |
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| people buy things that make them look like their from a certain status |
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| objects and styles that help identify our class status |
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| inability to meet the basic living standards required to sustain oneself |
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| inability to meet the living standards of a society |
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| poverty to some extent what people believe it to be |
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| 53% of single, woman-led households are in poverty |
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| Juvenilization of Poverty |
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| children are disproportionatly poor |
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| minorities and negroes are disproportionately poor although the majority of poor people are white |
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| highly urban and higly rural areas are the poorest |
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| 2-3% of the population is constantly poor |
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| Culture of Poverty Theory |
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| persistantly poor people often develop a culture of poverty, blames the victims for their problems |
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| theory that says that people are poor because of where they live, there aren't enough good jobs in that location |
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| Socially Marginalized Group |
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| groups that are vulnerable and victimized and have little power to change it |
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| limited access to key institutions of society |
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| group of people who have been singled out on the basis of real or alleged physical appearances |
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| differentiation based on common cultural characteristics |
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| looking at people differently based on characteristics they have |
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| unfair and often harmful treatment of others based on membership in a certain group |
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Unprejudiced Nondescriminator
Prejudiced Nondescriminator
Unprejudiced Descriminator
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| underlying belief that race determines abilities and characteristics and that different treatment of races should be allowed |
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| the idea that racism is a thing of the past, turning a blind eye towards discrimination |
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| degradation of area where minorities live because they have fewer political resources than the strong white men |
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| Americans forces minorities with differing cultues to adapt to the already established norms before they are accepted into society |
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| different cultures living side by side in the same society, rather than trying to assimilate |
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| when minorities try to separate from the dominant groups |
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| Functionalist view of race |
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| races need to assimilate because too much pluralism will cause chaos |
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| racial groups create their own stereotypes for others to judge them by |
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| societies based on ownership of property and land, wives and children considered property |
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| Cultural Transmission Theory |
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| caregivers reinforce behaviors that are gender specific, and discourage those that aren't |
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| Cognitive Development Theory |
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| children acquire a gender identity and begin to behave in ways that are consistent with that identity |
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| Language skill differences |
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| during adolescence girls experience a growth in the ability to understand and convey emotions, boys do not |
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| society develops certain norms for different genders |
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| once a gender identity has been established the person makes sure that whatever that identity is it stays in a positive light |
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