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Scociology exam 2

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Definition
Social stratification   A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy based on three factors. Material resources, power, and status.  
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Matirial resources   Anything that can be turned into money.  
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Status   The degree by which people look up to or down to you.  
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Power   The ability to make people do what you want.  
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Funtionalist thoery   Each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society's stability and functionality as a whole.  
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Slave   An extreme form of inequality in which people own other people as property.  
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Caste   A social system in which a persons social status is given/determined for life. Social status in a caste system is determined based on physical characteristics such as race and ethnicity.  
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Class   refers to people who have a relationship to the means of production.  
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Social class   A social class is a group of people who occupy a similar economic position in the wider society  
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The 4 components of social class   Social class is determined by these 4 factors. income, wealth, occupation, and education.  
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Income   Money earned from work. Social scientists measure income in three main ways, mean, median, and shares.  
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Shares   They tell us the proportion of total income earned by a smaller group in a population  
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Wealth   The value of owned posestions minus debt. Mesaured the same way as income  
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Occupation   A person's source of income. Also provides status.  
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Social identites   Collections of individuals in society who are grouped together on the basis of shared traits or experiences.  
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Sociologist's definition of gender   The attitudes and behaviors that are associated with biological sex categories.  
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Gender difference's   The physchological, social, and cultural differences between men and women Ie: color differences for boys and girls  
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Gender inequaility   The difference in status, income, and power women and men have in groups, collectives and societies.  
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Power inequality   A form of gender inequality in which there is a difference in power between gender's. Ie: Management positions are more likely to be or have more men in them.  
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Domestic inequality   Gender differences in a household/domestic environment. Ie: Men doing less house work while women doing more housework.  
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Occupational sex segregation (OSS)   The pattern of women and men becoming concentrated into stereotyped occupations. Ie, women making up (90%) of nurses while men only (10%)  
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Race   ways of classifying people based on physical markers. Ie: skin color, hair texture, eye shape, etc.  
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Ethnicity   Ways of classifying people based on cultural differences, especially nationality.  
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Prejudice   A belief about a person or group that precedes knowledge of that person or group, and that may persist after contrary experience.  
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Discrimination   An action that follows from prejudice. Can be individual-level or institutional level.  
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Sex   The physical differences if the body between men and women.  
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