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Sociology 1101
Sociology notes
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Capitalism | an economic system grounded in the private ownership of the means of production |
| Charismatic Authority | the excise of power as legitimated through personal magnetism of individuals who compel people to believe in them and grant them their support |
| Contact Hypothesis | The proposal that prejudiced attitudes can decline with inter-group contact |
| Davis-Moore Thesis | The theory that social stratification is functional for society because it ensures that key social positions are held by the most capable people |
| Democratic Racism | A system that advocates equality but in fact perpetuates minority differentiation and oppression. |
| Discrimination | actions that deny or grant advantages to members of a particular group. |
| Domestic Labour | The activities required to maintain a home and care for the people who live in it. |
| Double Ghetto | a situation in which women have full time jobs outside the home often work another "shift" when they get home. |
| ecological Fallacy | Drawing conclusions that individual attributes from data collected from an entire group. |
| Ethnicity | a multi-dimensional concept that includes one's minority or majority status, ancestry, language, and often religious affiliation. |
| Exception Fallacy | Drawing Conclusions about a certain group based on observations of individuals. |
| Exchange Theory | the assertion that power flows from the resources that a member brings into a relationship |
| Family of Procreation | the family one creates by having children or adopting children |
| Feminization of poverty | the universal phenomenon whereby women are more susceptible to poverty than men. |
| gender | social distinctions between masculinity and femininity. |
| Hegemonic Masculinity | the normative ideal of dominant masculinity |
| intersexed individuals | an individual born with ambiguous genitalia. |
| meritocracy | a system of rewards based on personal attributes and demonstrated abilities. |
| political economy | the interactions of politics, government and governing, and the social and cultural constitution of markets, institutions, and actors. |
| prejudice | a negative prejudgment about a person or group that is irrational, long lasting and not based on fact |
| racialization | the process of attributing complex characteristics (eg. intelligence) to racial categories. |
| role strain | the stress that results when someone does not have sufficient resources to play a role. |
| Scapegoat theory | the assertion that prejudice and discrimination originate in the frustrations of people who want to blame someone else for their problems |
| Second Shift | the domestic labor preformed by employed women at home after finishing their paid workdays |
| Social class | a group of individuals sharing a position in a social hierarchy, based on both birth and achievement |
| Social reproduction | the activities required to ensure the day-to-day and generational reproduction and survival of the population. |
| status inconsistency | occurs when an individual occupies several different ranked systems at the same time. |
| transgender | an umbrella term for a range of people who do not fit into normative constructions of sex and gender |
| expressive role | responsible for the emotional well being of family members and the socialization of children. |
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