Soci Exam
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| Race and ethnicity: | Socially constructed not biological; ethnicity, Takes culture into account
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| Ethnicity: | A shared cultural heritage of a given group that ha emerged historical and set people apart
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| Social meaning of Race affects: | life chances, where you live, how you are treated, access to wealth and education, housing, life expectancy, power and prestige, other valued resources
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| Biologically speaking, what can we predict from a person's race? | we can predict nothing based on a person's race
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| A shared cultural heritage of a given group that ha emerged historical and set people apart includes: | national origin, language, traditions, customs, religious beliefs/practices, as well as racial category
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| Minorities: | Any category of people who are identified based on physical or cultural traits and then set apart and subordinated by society
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| Prejudice: | A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire race
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| Prejudgments that can be positive or negative (exaggerate virtues of some while condemning virtues of others) | Stereotypes, Discrimination, Racism, Institutional racism
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| Stereotypes: | A simplified description applied to everyone
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| Discrimination: | behavior toward another group that involves unequal treatment
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| Racism: | The beliefs and practices that a dominant racial or ethic group use to systemically keep another group of people in an inferior position.
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| Institutional Racism: | sexism found throughout the economy. Examples: school-to-school pipe line, hospitals, law enforcements
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| while prejudice refers to ____, discrimination is a matter of ____. | beliefs/attitudes; actions
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| Redlining: | degraded blacks from loans
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| Block busting: | anyone could apply to loans
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| White flight: | means and abilities to get out
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| white Privilege: | The color of a persons skin makes a difference in this country when we ignore knowledge, we are denying the institutional racism that exist in our society
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| Services: | Activities that benefit people. Example: teachers and physicians
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| Goods: | Commodities ranging from necessities (food/clothing) to luxury items (cars and yachts)
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| Corporations: | An organization with a legal existence including rights and liabilities, separatw from that of its members
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| Corporations include: | Incorporating an organization makes it a legal entity able to enter into contracts and own property; protect the wealth of owners from lawsuits
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| How did unions change the workforce in the 1900s ? | Banned child labor, set minimum wage levels, improved workplace safety, extended schooling and political rights to a larger segment of the population
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| Corporate Welfare: | funds issued through tax breaks, subsides and grants; spent more
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| Social Welfare: | funds on public service programs
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| Economy: | Organizes a societies production distribution and consumption of goods and services
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| Family: | A social institutions found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups do care for one another (is culturally relative)
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| Kinship: | A social bond based on marriage, common ancertory/adoption. (culturally relative)
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| 3 kinds of kinship are: | Affineal, consonguineal, and fictive
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| Affineal: | through marriage
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| Consonguineal: | by blood
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| Fictive: | Very close, like family
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| Marriage: | A legal relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity and child bearing. (culturally relative)
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| Endogamy: | marriage within a social group
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| Exogamy: | marriage outside a social group
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| Monogamy: | One person married to one spouse
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| Polygamy: | One person married to multiple spouses
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| Polygny: | One man with multiple wives
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| Polyandry: | One woman with multiple husbands
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| Patterns of residencys are: | Matrilocality, patrilocailty, neolocality
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| Matrilocality: | Mother family (wife)
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| Patrilocailty: | Fathers family (husband)
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| Neolocality: | New (what we do in U.S.)
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| Divorce; who are likely to get divorced? | young people
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| Divorce; why are people likely to get divorced? | More independence/individualism, money, stress, less stigmia and romantic love
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| Single parenthood: | 32% with children have one parent, 84% are single moms; increase in poverty, 41% of children are born into unmarried mothers (by choice or lesbians) and single parents are growing
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| Religion: | A social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred.
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| Church: | religious organization
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| Sect: | established religion
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| Cult: | New religion
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| Health as defined by the World Health Organization (W.H.O) | State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Not merely the absence of disease
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| What four ways does society affect people's health? | culture patterns define health (white live), culture standards of health (cigarettes), technology affects health, and social inequality affect health (poor people are not as healthy)
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| Culture Bound illness: | specific to specific cultures; White liver: Wasting away because of too much sex, Karo: Asian men are afraid their penis will retract and LAtino-Mal De Djo: Childern, evil eyes
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| How does poverty affect health? | No access to health insurance, doctors or medication. No healthy food access.
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| How does gender affect health? (for both men and woman) | men have higher deaths related to stress while woman are over all healthier but have reproductive issues and special needs
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| Food Desert: | A place with out a grocery store nearby; rural/urban
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| Social change: | The transformation of culture and social institutions overtime (can be positive or negative)
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| Four major characteristics of social change: | happens all the time, often intentional but unplanned, is controversial, some changes matter more than others
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| Social Movement: | An organized activity in which people set out to encourage or discourage social change. Example: desegregation, women's votes and occupy Wall street.
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| Four Stages of Social Movements: | Emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, decline
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| Emergence: | People think all is not well, identify an issue
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| Coalescence: | Social movement defines itself and comes up with strategy. Example: Occupy Wall Street
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| Bureaucratization: | When things become professionalized/established
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| Decline: | Things either accomplish or fizzle out
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| what percentage of children have one parent? | 32%
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| what percentage of children are born into unmarried mothers? | 41 %
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| what percentage of single mom = increase in poverty? | 84%
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