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Soc+ Ch.8-10
New vocab
| Definition | |
|---|---|
| intersex | babies born with ambiguous genitals because of a hormone imbalance in the womb or some other cause |
| gender | your sense of being male or female and your playing masculine and feminine roles in ways defined as appropriate by your culture and society |
| gender identity | a persons identification with, or sense of belonging to a particular sex, biologically, physiologically and socially |
| essentialism | views gender differences as a reflection of biological differences between men and women |
| social constructionism | views gender differences as a reflection of different social positions occupied by men and women |
| gender idiology | what constitutes appropriate masculine and feminine roles and behavior |
| transgendered | defy rigid distinction between male and female: may be homo or heterosexual |
| transsexuals | people who want to alter their gender |
| occupational sex segregation | concentration of women in certain occupations and men in others |
| acquaintance rape | sexual assault involving intercourse by someone the victim knows |
| quid pro quo sexual harrassment | sexual threats or bribery are made as a condition of employment |
| hostile environment sexual harrassment | involves sexual jokes, touching and comments that interfere with work or create an unfriendly work environment |
| nuclear family | man, woman plus at lease one child |
| traditional nuclear family | husband works outside for money and wife works without pay at home |
| polygamy | nuclear family expands "horizontally" adding at least one spouse |
| crude divorce rate | number of divorces per year per 1000 in population |
| total fertility rate | average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime if she had the same number of children as her age cohort in a given year |
| blended family | includes spousal children of previous marriage |
| collective conscience | common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together (Durkheim) |
| profane | secular everyday world |
| sacred | religious transcendent world |
| rituals | set practices designed to connect people to the sacred |
| totems | objects that symbolize the sacred |
| routinization of charisma | transformation of the unique gift of divine enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life (Weber) |
| church | mainstream religious institution |
| secularization thesis | religious institutions, actions and consciousness are on the decline worldwide |
| fundamentalists | interpret scriptures literally; seek direct personal relationship with higher being |
| revised secularization thesis | worldly religious institutions break off from the institution over time. Therefore religions govern smaller part of lives and is a choice. |
| ecclesia | state supported churches |
| denominations | streams of belief and practices churches allow to coexist |
| sects | less integrated into society; may have break away charismatic leader |
| charismatic leaders | claim to be inspired by supernatural powers |
| cults | small groups deeply committed to religious vision that rejects mainstream culture and society |
| religiosity | degree religion is important to people |
| educational attainment | number of years completed |
| educational achievement | how much students actually learn |
| cultural capital | widely shared, high-status cultural signals |
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