Sociology

Social Institutions

Widespread and enduring patterns of interaction in which we respond to categories of human need by organizing society's resources and social structures to meet those needs.

Social Structures

The entire set of interlocking social institutions in which we live.

Structural Position

Our position in these interlocking social insitutions that shapes our access to opportunity

Institutional Discrimination

When social institutions and their attendant ideologies are designed to favor some kinds of groups over others.

Interpersonal discrimination

Which is prejudice displayed by an individual based on someone’s social identity

Economic Capital

Refers to the financial resources that are or can be converted into money.

Median

Middle Value among a set of numbers arranged from lowest to the highest

Mean

Sum of all values divided by the number of values (average)

Mode

Value among a range of values that occurs most frequently

Capitalism

Economy based on private ownership of resources, with the goal of maximizing profit

Neoliberalism

A way of organizing the economy that insists on free market capitalism, rejects any form of welfare.

Environmental Racism

Practice of exposing racial and ethnic minorities to more toxins and pollutants than white people encounter

Sexism

Refers to the production of unjust outcomes for people seen as women or femme.

Androcentrism

Refers to the production of unjust outcomes for people who perform feminity.

Hegemonic Masculinity

Refers to the version of masculinity that is most culturally admired and rewarded.

Property Marriage

Well into the 1800s, women and children were seen as property, and as property, women could not enter legal contracts, they did not have the right to vote, or een have rights to their children.