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Ch.10. vocab
exam 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| social reproduction | the process by which society maintains an enduring character from generation to generation |
| power elite | a relatively small group of interconnected people who occupy top positions in important social institutions |
| pluralist theory of power | the idea that U.S. politics is characterized by competing groups that work together to achieve their goals |
| elite theory of power | the idea that a small group of networked individuals controls the most powerful positions in our social institutions |
| social capital | the number of people we know and the resources they can offer us |
| social closure | a process by which advantaged groups preserve opportunities for themselves while restricting them for others |
| cultural capital | symbolic resources that communicate one's social status |
| fit | the feeling that our particular mix of cultural capital matches our social context |
| ethnography | a research method that involves careful observation of naturally occurring social interaction, often as a participant |
| field | the place or places where ethnographers conduct participant observation |
| field notes | descriptive accounts of what occurred in the field, alongside tentative sociological observations |
| cultural hegemony | power maintained primarily by persuasion |
| hegemonic ideologies | shared ideas about how human life should be organized that are used to manufacture our consent to existing social conditions |
| individualism | the idea that people are independent actors responsible primarily for themselves |
| collectivism | the idea that people are interdependent actors with responsibilities primarily to the group |
| xenophobia | prejudice against people defined as foreign |
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