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Exam 2 Socio
Exam on Chp. 6 9-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Race | A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups. |
| Genocide | The systematic annihiliation of attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity. |
| Ethnicity | Having distinctive cultural characteristics |
| Prejudice | An attitude or prejuding usually in a negative way. |
| Discrimination | An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group. |
| Institutional Discrimination | Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society's institutions *Also systemic Discrimination |
| Scapegoat | An individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else's troubles. |
| Population Transfer | The forced movement of a minority group. |
| Apartheid | The separation of racial-ethnic groups as was practiced in South Africa. |
| Internalized Discrimination | Discrimination which occurs within a race. |
| Primary Group | A group characterized by intimate, long-term, face-to-face association and cooperation. |
| Secondary Group | Compared with a primary group, a larger, relatively temporary, more anonymous, formal, and impersonal group based on some interest or activity. |
| Dyad | The smallest possible group, consisting of two persons. |
| Triad | A group of three people. |
| Group Stability | The larger the group the more stable. |
| Social Class | A large group of people who rank close to one another in property, power, prestige. |
| Pastoral Society | A society based on the pasturing of animals. |
| Hunting and Gathering Society | A human group that depends on hunting gathering for it's survival Men=Women Few Social divisions/little inequality. Usually have shaman. Men more prestige but women more contribution only 20/25-40 people. Nomadic. Most egalitarian. |
| Horitcultural Society | A society based on cultivation plants by the use of hand tools |
| Postindustrial Society | A society based on information, services, and high technology, rather than raw materials and manufacturing. |
| Democratic Leader | An individual who leads by trying to reach a consensus. |
| Authoritarian | An individual who leads by giving orders |
| Lasiez-faire | An individual who leads by being highly permissive |
| Asch's | Conformity experiment Seeing if a person caves to how people answer, even though they know its wrong. |
| Milgram experiment | Shocking experiment... How far will you go... |
| How Nations became stratified | Colonialism, World System, Theory, Culture of poverty, Evaluating the theories. |
| Colonialism | The process by which one nation takes over another nation, usually for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources. |
| World System Theory | Economic and political connections that tie the world's countries together. |
| Globalization of capitalism | Capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globe's dominant economic system. |
| Culture Poverty | The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people. |
| Weber's Social Class Components | Property, power, and prestige |
| Sex | Biological characteristics that distinguish females and males, consisting of primary and secondary sex characteristics. |
| Gender | The behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for i ts males and females |
| Nature vs. Nurture | Nature: Our Biology is the only thing that has to do with the way we act. Nurture: The way we are socialized is the way we act/Not the way we are Born. |
| Patriarchy | A society in which Men as a group dominate women as a group. |
| Feminism | The philosophy that men & women should be politically, economically, and socially equal. |
| Reference Group | A group whose standards we evaluate ourselves. |
| 2 causes of slavery | War, debt, and Crime |
| Power elite | Term for the top people in the U.S. corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions. |
| Social Mobility | Movement up or down the social class ladder. |
| Caste system | A form of social stratification in which people's statuses are determined by birth are lifelong. |
| Structural Mobility | Movement up or down the social class ladder that is due more to changes in the structure of society than to the actions of individuals. |
| Globalization | The extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansions of capitalism. |
| Negative effects of globalization on less industrialized nations | These nations = 68% of worlds people. Poverty/people take to living in dumps. No running water/indoor plumbing, or access to trained teachers or physicians. |
| Out-Group | an outgroup is a social group towards which an individual feels contempt, opposition, or a desire to compete. |
| In-Group | a social group towards which an individual feels loyalty and respect, usually due to membership in the group. |
| In-Group Bias | the preferential treatment people give to those whom they perceive to be members of their own groups. |
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