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SOCY101_Exam2B
Part 1
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Stratification | System by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarachy |
| Mass Media | Print and Electronic ways of communication through newspapers, magazines, tv |
| Gate-Keeping | A handful of people who decide what should be released to the media |
| Feminization of Poverty | The idea that women represent the increasing porportion of the poor |
| Income Vs Wealth | Income is wages and salaries, Wealth is the assets, and land that was past on from generation to generation |
| Intra-Generational | The change in social position within a person's life |
| Inter-Generational | The change within a social position relative to their parents |
| Relative Poverty | Standard of Deprivation by which people at the bottom compared to the society as a whole |
| Absolute Poverty | The minimum standard below to which families should not be expected to exist |
| Differential Association | Tendency toward conformity or deviance depends upon the amount of contact with others who encourage or reject |
| Discredited | When a person displays a characteristics of a label |
| Discreditable | When a person has the characteristics of the label but is not displayed |
| Stigma | A poweragul negative label that changes a person's self-concept and self-image |
| Labeling Theory | The assertion that deviance and conformity result not so much of what people do but what society thinks |
| Reference Group | A social group that serves as a point of reference for making evaluations or decisions |
| Mechanical Solidarity | Social bonds based on common sentiments and shared moral values |
| Organic Solidarity | Social bonds based on specialization and interdependece |
| Retrospective Labeling | A reinterpretaion of a person's past in light of some present deviance |
| Projective Labeling | People us a deviant identity to predict future actions |
| Dominant Ideology | A set of cultural beliefs and practives that help to maintain a powerful socail, economica and political interests |
| Group Think | The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue |
| Social Loafing | The production power of a group is less than the sum total production power of the individuals in the group |
| Social Capital | Features of social organization such as networks, norms and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit |
| Crime | The violation of a society's formally enacted crimal law |
| Victimless Crime | A term used by a sociologist to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal, goods and services |
| Criminal Recidivism | The time it takes for them to return to jail |
| Davis-Moore Thesis | Divides, Defines Social Groups and analyzes, universal |
| Gender | The personal traits and social positions that members of a soiety attach to being feminine or masculine |
| Gender Stratification | The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privlige between men and women |
| Minority | Any category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a socicet sets apart and subordiates |
| Social Control | Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior Informal: Spanking, Formal: Jail |
| Criminal Justice System | Formal response by the police, courts and prison officals to alleged violations of law |
| Unemployement | A person who is able and willing to work yet unable to find a job |
| Unemployment Rate | The # of Unemployed/Eligible workers |
| Sex | Biological distinction between male and female |
| Feminism | The advocact of social equality for men an women |
| Sexism | The belief that one sex innately inferior to the other |
| Transsexual | A person who dresses and behaves like the other gender |
| Transgender | A person who undertakes a biologic transition to become the other sex |
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