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| Ranks groups of people according to "life chance opportunities" |
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| People who are similar in terms of wealth and income |
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| Takes into account the prestige associated with your job (social class + status) |
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| The social estimation of power |
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| Societies that do not allow social mobility |
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| Functionalism (in terms of stratification) |
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| Every society has certain tasks that need to be done. Some of these require more training. Give those who need more training bigger rewards for their effort. |
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| The idea that people at the top feed to those at the bottom that if they work very hard, they can advance. |
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| About subsistence. Do you have enough resources to live a fairly comfortable and healthy life? |
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| Do you have enough, relative to those in your society? |
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| If you fall below it, there is generally help available |
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| The feminization of poverty |
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| The dissolution of marriage has created conditions where many women will spend some of their adult life in poverty |
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| The number one predictor for poverty |
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| Reasons why poverty should be dealt with by society |
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~Otherwise, the crime rate goes up
~Poor people are a huge tax burden
~The ramifications of poverty are not solely individual. |
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| A group that is treated differently because of some characteristic |
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| The embrace of differences for differences sake. Happened because we would not let certain groups (like blacks) assimilate. |
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| Concerns about multiculturalism |
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~Our society may become incapable of group action
~We don't like each other anyway |
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| The belief that people can naturally be divided into groups and that some of those groups are more capable than others. |
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| When people act on racist beliefs |
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| Merton's four types (referring to racism) |
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| Prejudiced/unprejudiced and discriminator/non-discriminator |
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| Racism written into law and policy (ex: the Jim Crow laws) |
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| When people oppose certain policies that are aimed at ending things like segregation |
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| The tendencies to evaluate one group by the standards of your own |
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| When someone different is encountered, people become more aware of the similarities of their own group. |
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| Need to protect valuable resources for members of your own group |
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| The biological and anatomical differences between men and women |
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| The psychological and social aspects of sex |
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| Dealing with the family in relation to other units (government, education, etc.) Men generally deal with these. |
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| Deal with what goes on in the family. Generally taken care of by women |
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| Toqueville's "Democracy in America" |
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| Says that across history, society has been organized like a pyramid, All of western history is looking for social equality. |
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| Weber (on societal evolution) |
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| There has been a dramatic change in europe from the 1500s to the 1800s. Why did it only happen there? What did it really change? |
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| Nomads in small groups, led by the oldest males. Stress cooperation over competition |
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| Pastoral/horticultural people |
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| Made permanence possible. Hierarchies form as do new levels of material inequality. |
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| Conquest mentality, much inequality. |
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| Characteristics of modern social life |
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~The nation-state
~Capitalism (trade)
~Disenchantment |
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| How can you get legitimacy? |
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~Charisma
~Tradition
~Rational-legal methods |
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| Belief that someone has insight into how something ought to be. (problem: the larger the movement gets, the weaker it gets. Also, this sort of leader eventually dies.) |
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| Comes off of charismatic leadership. The leader has some sort of connection to the late charismatic leader. |
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| Rational-legal leadership |
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| Based on procedural authority. Emerges when the traditional leader can't be trusted. |
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| The pursuit of money for its own sake. (comes with new ways of getting what we need.) |
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| Epistemological in nature. The world is less mystical now that we know how it works. |
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| thinks is the driving force behind human history. He also thinks that the quest for control can become all-consuming (like bureaucracy.) |
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| The iron cage of rationality |
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| When you can’t imagine anything outside of the procedure. |
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