sociology exam 2 2
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- the violation of norms written into law
- crime
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- cultural walls (norms)
- an act of violating a rule or norm
- deviance
- a person behaves the way they do because of the people to whom they are asscioted to
- differential association
- approved ways of reaching cultural goals
- institutionalized means
- the view developed by symbolic interactionlists, that the labels people are given affect their own and others and others' perception of them, thus channeling their behavior into either deviance or conformity
- labeling theory
- an expession disappoval for breaking a norm
- negative sanctions
- the view that personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms
- personality disorder
- ex. smile- a reward or positive reaction for following norms
- positive sanction
- a groups formal and informal means of enforcinjg its norms
- social control
- refer to notes
- social strain
- the determinance of social class based upon skin color
- apartheid
- knowing your place in society based on means of production (which class u belong to- low,middle,upper)
- class consciousness
- workers bees thinking they can become queen bees or capitalists
- false consciousness
- stratification based on property
- class system
- ensuring everyone qualified the position they deserve
- meritocracy
- a form of social stratification in which ones' own status is determined by birth and is lifelong
- caste system
- movement up or down the social class ladder
- social mobility
- can move up or down with promontions
- vertical mobility
- a change in workplace within the same job
- horizontal mobility
- movement down the social ladder
- downward social mobility
- comparison between one generation and another
- intergenerational mobility
- the ability to carry out your will despite the resistance of others
- power
- the top people in the u.s. corporations, military, and politics that make up the nations major decisions
- power elite
- a large group of people whop rank close to one another in wealth, power, and prestige
- social class
- movemenmt up or down the class ladder due due changes in the structure of society, not individual efforts
- structural mobility
- a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations
- underclass
- moving up the social ladder
- upward social mobility
- property and income
- wealth
- the philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal
- feminisn
- males' and females' unequal access to power, prestige, and property on the basis of their sex
- gender stratification
- the behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females
- gender
- the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing tothe top levels at work
- glass ceiling
- a society or group in which men dominate women
- patriarchy
- an acquaintance rape by someone who is very intamate
- date rape
- biological characteristics that distinguish females and males, consisting of primary and secondary sex characteristics
- sex
- b.
- acquaintance
- dominant group takes in minority group allowing them to assimilate
- assimilation
- an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group
- discrimination
- the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status
- dominant group
- having distinctive cultural characteristics
- ethnicity
- the systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people based on their presumed race orv ethnic group
- genocide
- the negative treatment of one person by another on the basis of that person's perceived characteristics
- individual discrimination
- yre
- institutional
- the policy of economically exploitting minority groups
- internal colonialism
- people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination
- minority group
- forcing a minority group to move
- population transfer
- an attitude or prejudging
- prejudice
- physical characteristics which distinguish one group from another
- race
- prejudice, discrimination, and hostility directed towards against people because of their age
- ageism
- the number of years that an average person at any age can be expected to live
- life expectancy
- the maximum length of life of a species
- life span
- the focus of this theory is how people adjust to retirement by continuing aspects of their earlier lives
- continuity theory
- the relative value placed on men's and women's ages
- gender age
- the direct exchange of one item for another
- barter
- a change from the Protestant ethnic to an eagerness to show off wealth by the consumption of goods
- conspicuous consumption
- a hybrid economic system in which capitalism is mixed with state ownership
- democratic socialism
- a receipt stating that vacertain amount of goods is on deposit in a warehouse or bank
- deposit receipt
- any item that serves asa a medium of exchange
- money
- a system of distribution goods and services
- economy
- currency issued by a government that is not backed by stored value
- fiat money
- unrestrainted manufacture and trade
- laissez faire capital
- the law of supply and demand
- market forces
- the means by which people place a value on goods and services in order to make an exchange
- medium of exchange
- an increase in prices
- inflation