Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Sociology 101
Exam 4 Chapter 7&11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| proletariat | 1)the people in a society who do not control production and must work in order to live, or the lowest social and economic group in a society. 2) Workers: those who have no means of production of their own and so are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. |
| bourgeoisie | 1) the social group between the rich and the poor:2) Owners: the class of modern capitalists who own the means of production and employ the wage laborers. |
| ideology | 1) A system of beliefs, , attitudes, and values that directs a society and reproduces the status quo of the bourgeoisie. 2) Cultural beliefs that justify social stratification and legitimates existing patterns of structural social inequality. |
| socioeconomic status | A measure of an individuals place within a social class system; often used interchangeably with "class". |
| social stratification | The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy, also called structural social inequality. |
| slavery | the most extreme system of social stratification, relegates people to the status of property, mainly for the purpose of providing labor for the slave owner |
| Social Class | 1) A system of stratification based on access to such resources as wealth, property, power, and prestige. 2) A category of people who share a common position in a vertical hierarchy of differential social reward. |
| meritocracy | 1) A system in which rewards are distributed based on merit. 2) a social system, society, or organization in which people have power because of their abilities, not because of their money or social position: The company is a meritocracy. Good work is rewarded with promotions. |
| Marx: False Consciousness | The inability to see ways in which we may be oppressed. |
| Marx: Alienation | The sense of dissatisfaction the modern workers feel as a result of producing goods that are owned and controlled by someone else. |
| Weber: Disenchantment | The rationalization of modern society. |
| Weber: Rationalization | The application of economic logic to human activities: the use of formal rules and regulations in order to maximize efficiency without consideration of subjective or individual concerns. |
| Class Consciousness | The recognition of social inequality on the part of the oppressed, leading to revolutionary actions. |
| Weber: Prestige | The social honor people are given because of their membership in well-regarded social groups. |
| Bourdieu: Social Reproduction | The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as class status is passed down from one generation to the next. |
| Bourdieu: Social Capital | The tastes, habits, expectations, skills, knowledge, and other cultural assets that help us gain advantage in society. |
| Bourdieu | Study of Cultural capital and Social Reproduction |
| Globalization | The cultural and economic changes resulting from dramatically increased international trade and exchange in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. |
| Transnational Corporations (TNCs) | Purposefully transcend national boarders so that their products can be manufactured, distributed, marketed, and sold from many bases all over the world. |
| Life Chances | Education, work, crime, family, and health can be generally predicted just by knowing (SES) Socioeconomic Status. |
| Relative deprivation | A relative measure of poverty based on the standard of living in a particular society. |
| Absolute deprivation | an objective measure of poverty, defined by the inability to meet the minimal standards for food, shelter, clothing, or health care. |
| Gender Identity | an individuals self-definition or sense of gender. |
| Sex | An individuals membership in one of two biologically distinct categories, male or female. Ascribed status. |
| Gender | The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members. Achieved status. |
| Essentialist | those who believe gender roles have a genetic or biological origin and therefore cannot be changed. |
| Patriarchy | male domination; Literally meaning "rule of the father"; a male dominated society. |
| Constructionist | those who believe that notions of gender are socially determined , such that a dichotomous system is just one possibility among many. |
| Gender Role Socialization | the subtle, pervasive process of becoming masculine or feminine: primarily through four agents of socialization; families, peers, schools, and the media. |
| Social stratification involves 4 basic principles | 1) Trait of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences. 2) carries over from generation to generation. 3) universal but not variable. 4) involves not just inequality but beliefs as well. |
| Caste System | social stratification based on ascription. |
| Class System | social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement. |
| Closed System | A social system with very little opportunity to move from one class to another. |
| Open System | A Social class with ample opportunity to move from one class to anther. |
| Upper Class | Elite and largely self-sustaining group who posses most of the country's wealth; they constitute about 1% of the US population. |
| Sociology includes three major theoretical perspectives: | 1) the functionalist perspective 2) the conflict perspective 3) the symbolic interactionist perspective (sometimes called the interactionist perspective, or simply the micro view). |
| The Bourgeoisie... | The Ruling Class. |
| The Proletariat... | The Industrial workers. |
| Dominant ruling class (owns the means of production) | Bourgeoisie |
| Subdominant working class (does not own the means of production) | Proletariat |
| Marx | Alienation |
| Durkheim | Anomie |
| Weber | Disenchantment |
| Andre Gunder Franke | the leading dependency theorist, suggest that lack of development is because Western nations have deliberately under-developed them. |
| Neocolonialism | The pattern of continued dependency. |
| World System Theory | developed by economist Immanuel Wallerstein. |
| Erving Goffman | Gender roles are highly structured by one role of scripts designed for male and for female. |
| Feminist Theory | focus on the personal experience of women and men through the lens of gender. |
| How we think of our selves | gender identity |
| How we act | gender roles |
| our sex social stratification | gender stratification |
Created by:
pfrizzel