SOCI - 225 FINAL

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Achievement gap:

a persistent and significant disparity in academic performance between different groups of students.

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Tracking:

assigning students to specific educational programs and classes on the basis of test scores, previous grades, or perceived ability. 

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Hidden Curriculum:

school practices that transmit nonacademic knowledge, values, attitudes, norms, and beliefs. 

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Credentialism:

an emphasis on certificates or degrees to show that people have certain skills, educational, attainment levels, or job qualifications.

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Religion (how do sociologists define and study it?):

a social institution that involves shared beliefs, values, and practices related to the supernatural.

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Sacred:

anything that people see as awe-inspiring, supernatural, holy, and not part of the natural world.

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Profane:

 the ordinary and everyday elements of life that aren’t related to religion

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Beliefs:

the acceptance or conviction that certain statements or propositions are true or real. They often involve convictions about the nature of existence, the divine, morality, and the meaning of life. 

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Rituals:

 formalized, symbolic actions or ceremonies that are often performed in a prescribed manner. They are repeated, patterned behaviors that hold cultural or religious significance. 

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Church:

large established religious group that has strong ties to mainstream society.

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Sect:

a religious group that has broken away from established religion. 

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Protestant Ethic:

Weber argued that these values, when combined, created a mindset that was conducive to the development of capitalism. 

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Power:

the ability of a person or group to influence others, even if they resist.

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Force:

involves the use of physical strength or coercion to make someone comply with a particular action or command. 

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Authority:

the legitimate use of power. 

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Capitalism:

an economic system based on the private ownership of property and the means of production. 

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Socialism:

an economic system based on the public ownership of the production of goods and services.

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Communism:

a political and economic system in which property is communally owned and all people are considered equal. 

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Mixed Economies:

economic system that incorporates elements of both market and planned or command economies. In this economy, the government and the private sector coexist and play roles in economic decision-making, resource allocation, and the production and distribution of goods and services.

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Democracy:

a political system in which, ideally, citizens have control over the state and its actions.

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Monarchy:

power is based on heredity and passes from generation to generation.

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Oligarchy:

form of government or social structure in which power and influence are concentrated in the hands of a small, privileged, and often wealthy group of individuals or families. 

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Totalitarianism:

the government controls almost every aspect of people’s lives.

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Power Elite (C. Wright Mills):

a small group of influential people who make the nation’s major political decisions. 

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Social epidemiology (including incidence and prevalence):

examines how societal factors affect the distribution of disease within a population. 

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Sick role:

a social role that excuses people from normal obligations because of illness.

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Medical-industrial complex:

a network of business enterprises that influences medicine and health care.

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Medicalization:

a process that defines a nonmedical condition or behavior as an illness, disorder, or disease that requires medical treatment.

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Stratification:

a society’s ranking of people based on their access to valued resources such as wealth, power, and prestige.

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Social Class (including U.S. breakdown):

people who have a similar standing or rank in a society based on wealth, education, power, prestige, and other valued resources.

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Social Mobility:

movement from one social class to another.

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Intragenerational Mobility:

movement up or down a social class over one’s lifetime.

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Intergenerational Mobility:

movement up or down a social class over 2 or more generations. 

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Income:

the money a person receives, usually through wages or salaries, but can also include other earnings. 

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Wealth:

economic assets that a person or family owns.

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Working Poor:

people who work at least 27 weeks a year but whose wages fall below the official poverty level.

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Event Poverty:

when a family falls below the poverty line because of the loss of a job, death, disability, pregnancy, or desertion of a spouse 

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Socioeconomic Status (SES)?:

composite measure that reflects an individual's or a family's position within the social and economic structure. Includes: income, education, wealth, location, occupation. 

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Davis-Moore thesis:

suggests that social stratification serves a beneficial function in society. According to this thesis, social inequality is not only inevitable but also necessary for the smooth functioning of society. 

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Conflict perspective:

views social stratification as a result of inherent conflicts between different social classes.

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Sex:

the biological characteristics with which we are born.

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Gender:

learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize women and men.

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Intersexual:

people whose sex at birth isn't clearly either male or female.

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Sexual identity:

an awareness of ourselves as male or female and how we express our sexual values, attitudes, and feelings.

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Sexual Orientation:

a preference for sexual partners of the same sex, opposite sex, of both sexes, or neither.

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Gender Identity:

a perception of oneself as either masculine or feminine.

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Gender policing:

enforcement or imposition of societal norms and expectations related to gender expression and behavior.

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Sexual double standard:

code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than women.

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“The Second Shift”:

domestic responsibilities and child-care after work

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Hostile sexism:

involves overtly negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes about women. 

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Benevolent sexism:

attitudes and beliefs that may seem positive or protective toward women but, in reality, perpetuate gender stereotypes and contribute to the maintenance of traditional gender roles.

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Gender pay/wage gap:

the difference between men’s and women’s earnings.

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Glass Ceiling:

invisible or perceived barrier that prevents certain groups, particularly women and minorities, from reaching higher levels of leadership and advancement in their careers, despite their qualifications and achievements. 

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Glass Escalator:

phenomenon where men in female-dominated professions, particularly those traditionally associated with women, tend to experience faster career advancement and promotions compared to their female counterparts. 

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Race:

people who share visible physical characteristics that members of a society consider socially important. 

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Ethnicity:

people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage.

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Minority group:

people who may be treated differently and unequally because of their physical, cultural, or other characteristics.

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Assimilation:

conforming to the dominant group’s culture, and intermarrying with that group.

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Racism:

beliefs that one’s own racial group is inherently superior to other groups.

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Prejudice:

an attitude that prejudges people, usually in a negative way

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Discrimination:

behavior that treats people unequally because of some characteristics.

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Institutional Discrimination:

unequal treatment because of a society’s everyday laws, policies, practices, and customs. 

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De jure segregation / De facto segregation:

unequal access to high-quality schooling.

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Racial steering:

a practice in which real estate brokers refuse to show houses outside a specific areas to minority buyers 

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Contact hypothesis:

the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group.

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Social control (informal and formal):

the techniques and strategies that regulate people’s behavior in society.

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Informal Social Control:

we learn and internalize during childhood.

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Formal Social Control:

regulates social behavior, exists outside of the individual.

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Stigma (Goffman):

a negative label that devalues a person and changes her or his self-concept and social identity. 

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Deviance:

a violation of social norms

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Crime:

a violation of society’s formal laws.

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 Differential Association Theory (Sutherland):

asserts that people learn deviance through interaction, especially with significant others.

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Strain Theory (a.k.a. – Anomie; Merton’s Approach & Types):

people may engage in deviant behavior when they experience a conflict between goals and the means available to obtain the goals. 

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Chambliss’ Saints and Roughnecks study:

labeling theory:posits that society’s reaction to behavior is a major factor in defining oneself or others as deviant.

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Public-Order (a.k.a. Victimless) Crimes:

illegal acts that have no direct victim.

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Recidivism:

the tendency of a person who has been involved in the criminal justice system to reoffend or engage in further criminal behavior after being released from imprisonment or completing a sentence. 

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