Quiz 2 intro sociology word bank

Social Rules

Culturally specific norms, policies, and laws that guide our behaviors

Social sanctions

Reactions by others aimed at promoting conformity

Account

An excuse that explains our rule breaking but also affirms that the rule is good and right

Dramaturgy

The practice of looking at social life as a series of performmances in which we’re actors on metaphorical stages

Impression management

Efforts to control how we’re percieved by others

Digital Dualism

Belief that the digital world is virtual, the physical world is real

Capital

The economic, social, or cultural resources we use to get things we want and need

Social mobility

Opportunity to move up or down in the economic hierarchy

Economic elite

The minority of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth

Capitalism

An economic system based on private ownership of the resources used to create wealth and the right of individuals to personally profit 

Class consciousness

An understanding that members of a social class share economic interests

Living wage

An income that allows full-time workers to afford their basic needs

Working poor

People in the labor force who earn poverty-level wages

Socialism

An economic system based on shared ownership of the resource to used to create wealth that is then distributed by governments for the enrichment of all

Proletariat

A class of people who are employed by others and work for a wage

Ideology of separate spheres

The idea that the home is a feminine space best tented by women and work is a masculine space best suited to men

Sexism

The production of unjust outcomes for people seen as women

Androcentrism

The production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity

Hegemonic masculinity

The version of masculinity that is the most culturally admined and rewarded

Second shift

The unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that family members do once they return home from their paid jobs

Code of gender

Femininization of poverty

Sexuality

Queerness

Asexual

Demisexual

Heterosexual

Toms

Dees

Hijra