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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Introduced concept of the PRIMARY GROUP - in his view this was early, intimate groups like family and peer groups of the young child [Term/Concept]
Charles Horton Cooley
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] a group consisting of intimate, face to face interaction and cooperation, relatively long lasting relationships. Have expressive (emotional) bonds. Provide intimacy, companionship and emotional support. Have great impact on social life and social control [Term/Concept]
Primary Group
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] based on attraction to particular others. Usually these are the people in our primary groups, based on proximity, small number of peeps, and intense frequent interactions [Term/Concept]
Expressive bonds
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Larger in membership, less intimate and less long lasting. Can occasionally act like primary groups, especially in times of crisis. [Term/Concept]
Secondary groups
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Also called socioemotional needs. People tend to have these needs met in Primary groups. [Term/Concept]
Expressive needs
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] attachments to others based on our need to achieve certain goals. Task oriented needs. [Term/Concept]
Instrumental needs
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] groups to which one may not necessarily belong, but that are used as standards for evaluating values, attitudes, and behavior. A reference point. Identification with these groups can strongly influence self evaluation and self esteem. [Term/Concept]
Reference groups
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Members recruited according to criteria, members aware of belonging to group, have social structure arising from interaction, develop attachment, develop group norms and goals, have potential for conflict [Term/Concept]
Characteristics of Social Groups
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Concept by W I Thomas. If we have a sense of "us" (the in group) we will also have a sense of "them" (the out group) [Term/Concept]
In Groups vs. Out Groups
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Principal that we make inferences about the personalities and capabilities of others, usually based on whether they are an "in" or "out" group member. Usually distorted perceptions. Studied by Pettigrew. [Term/Concept]
Attribution Theory
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Erros made in attributing causes for people's behavior to their membership in a particular group. We tend to positively perceive people in our in group and negatively perceive those in out groups regardless of the actual characteristic [Term/Concept]
Attribution Error
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] A set of links between individuals or between other social units, such as bureaucratic orgs or even entire nations [Term/Concept]
Social Networks
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] We all think other people yield to pressure to conform - but not us. [Term/Concept]
Not Me Syndrome
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] tendency for group members to reach a concensus opinion, even if the decision is bad/stupid. [Term/Concept]
Groupthink
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Illusion of invulnerability, false impression of antagonists, dissention is discouraged and equated with disloyalty, illusion of unanimity. [Term/Concept]
Patterns of Groupthink
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Tendency for groups to weigh risks differently than individuals do. Can shift to either higher risk or lower risk taking. [Term/Concept]
Risky Shift or Polarization Shift
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] sense that one's self has merged with the group - blame and responsiblity are "shared" [Term/Concept]
Deindividuation
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] large secondary group, highly organized to accomplish complex tasks and goals [Term/Concept]
Formal Organization
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] People join these organizations to pursue goals they consider worthwhile - often called voluntary organizations. Class, race, ethnicity, and gender play a role in what organzation one joins. [Term/Concept]
Normative Organizations
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Characterized by membership that is largely involuntary. Prisons and mental hospitals are examples. [Term/Concept]
Coercive organizations
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] An organization cut off from the rest of society in which resident individuals are subject to strict social control - as in hospitals or prisons [Term/Concept]
Total Institution
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Large organizations that individuals join for specific purposes, such as monitary reward. [Term/Concept]
Utilitarian organization
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] formal organization characterized by an authority hierarchy, clear division of labor, explicit rules and impersonality [Term/Concept]
Bureaucracy
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] belief that OUR group is the best, or maybe the only right one, and that all others are inferior [Term/Concept]
Ethnocentrism
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] formality increases, personal satisfaction decreases, intimacy decreases, more difficult to reach concensus, cliques form, individuals address group (impersonality) [Term/Concept]
What are the effects of group size increasing
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] those where you return what you receive, and both parties of the relationship contribute [Term/Concept]
reciprocal relationships
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Pleasure, rationality, reciprocity, and fairness [Term/Concept]
Principals of Group Interaction
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Rigid adherence to rules and practices which can produce a slavinsh following of them [Term/Concept]
Ritualism
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Stresses on rules and proceedures resulting in a decrease in organizational cohesion, resulting in the individual becoming psychologically separated from the organization and its goals. [Term/Concept]
Alienation
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] efficiency, calculability, predictability, control [Term/Concept]
Dimesions of McDonaldization
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] high degree of division of labor or specilization, hierarchy of authority, rules and regulations, impersonal relationships [Term/Concept]
Ideal Bureaucracy
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] the informal culture evolved within a bureaucracy in reaction to its formality and impersonality, can be attempts to humanize impersonal organizations [Term/Concept]
Bureaucracy's other face
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms. Deviance defined in social context, not individual acts. What is deviant to some is not deviant to others. Deviance is socially defined - not simply an act. [Term/Concept]
Deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] behavior that breaks laws or official rules [Term/Concept]
Formal deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] behavior that violated customary norms [Term/Concept]
Informal deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] Social groups create deviance by their reactions. Deviance also defined by place, time and who witnesses the behavior. [Term/Concept]
Who creates deviance?
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[Definition/Explanation] societies need deviance to know what normal behavior is defined to be - Deviance produces social solidarity (cohesion), occurs more often when attachment to social bonds is dimished, stems from structural strains in society [Term/Concept]
Functionalistic view of deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Defining deviance as an individual sickness or pathology - this ignores the social factors that contribute to deviance [Term/Concept]
Medicalization of Deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] Deviance is learned and reinforced in group membership, results from process of social labeling, deviance is produced by those with the power to label deviance [Term/Concept]
Symbolic Interaction Theory and Deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] Dominant class controls definition of deviance. Deviance results from inequality. Elite deviance goes largely unrecognized and unpunished. [Term/Concept]
Conflict Theory of Deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] a normless state of society, when social regulations break down and controlling influences of society are no longer affective [Term/Concept]
Anomie
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[Definition/Explanation] Occurs when disintegrating forces in society make individuals feel lost or alone - ex: those who have been sexually abused or have alcoholc parents are more likely to commit suicide [Term/Concept]
Anomic suicide
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Occurs when people are excessively dominated by the expectations of their social group [Term/Concept]
Altruistic suicide
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[Definition/Explanation] Occurs when individual feels totally detatched from society. ex: suicide by the elderly when their social ties and bonds break down [Term/Concept]
Egoistic suicide
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[Definition/Explanation] Suicide is a sociological phenomenon, not just individual phenomenon [Term/Concept]
Durkheim's view of suicide
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[Definition/Explanation] Structural Strain theory. [Term/Concept]
Robert Merton
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[Definition/Explanation] deviance explained by the gap between cultural goals and the means social structure provides to achieve those goals [Term/Concept]
Structural Strain Theory
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[Definition/Explanation] Depends upon circumstances under which it was performed and the audience [Term/Concept]
Deviant quality of an act
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[Definition/Explanation] Innovative deviance, ritualistic deviance, retreatism deviance, or rebellion [Term/Concept]
Forms of deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] When a cultural goal is accepted, but nontraditional means are available and used to achieve the goal. An example is when a woman accepts the cultural goal of attaining wealth, but resorts to using prostitution in order to attain it. [Term/Concept]
Innovative deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] When neither the goals or the means to achieve them are available to a person. Example is a severe alcoholic. [Term/Concept]
Retreatism deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] When the goal is perceived an unattainable, but the means to achieve it are plentiful. Example: bulemia - they never feel thin enough, it seems unattainable, but there are plenty of means to be thin and in shape [Term/Concept]
Ritualistic deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] When new goals are substituted for more traditional ones and new, untraditional means are taken to replace older ones [Term/Concept]
Rebellion
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[Definition/Explanation] Developed Social Control Theory [Term/Concept]
Travis Hirschi
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[Definition/Explanation] states that deviance occurs when a person's or group's attatchment to social bonds is weakened - people internalize social norms because of their attachment to others [Term/Concept]
Social Control Theory
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[Definition/Explanation] Does not explain how norms of deviance are first established, does little to explain why some behaviors are labeled normative and others not. Tendency to assume that systems of behavior work for the good of the whole and ignores inequality. [Term/Concept]
Weakness of Functionlist perspective on Deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] states that the economic organization of capitalist societies produce deviance and crime. See crimes in terms of power relationships and economic inequality. [Term/Concept]
Conflict Theories of Deviance
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[Definition/Explanation] Conflict Theory and Functionalist theory [Term/Concept]
Macrostructural theories on Deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] process by which groups and individuals within those groups are brought into conformity with dominant social expectations [Term/Concept]
Social control
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] those who regulate and administer the response to deviance - such as police or mental health workers [Term/Concept]
Social control agents
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] wrong doing of the wealthy and/or powerful individuals and organizations. Example: white collar crime [Term/Concept]
Elite deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Laws and social structure can work for the protection and benefit of others, not just the elite. Good analysis of crime, but not good analysis of other forms of deviance - economic interests alone cannot explain all of the deviance in society [Term/Concept]
Conflict Theory's weaknesses in explaining deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Symbolic interaction theories of deviance [Term/Concept]
Microsociological deviance theory
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[Definition/Explanation] Based in the belief that people behave as they do because of the meanings they attribute to situations - these theories emphasize meanings surrounding deviance and how people respond to those meanings [Term/Concept]
Symbolic interaction theories and deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] a normal response to social conditions in which people find themselves - deviance can be a problem of social conditions, not individual character [Term/Concept]
W.I. Thomas explanation of deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] people's actions and the subjective meanings attributed to these actions must be understood in social, not individualized, frameworks [Term/Concept]
situational analysis
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] Deviance is behavior one learns through interactions with others - people become criminals when they are more socialized to break the law than to keep it by their primary groups [Term/Concept]
Differential association theory
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] says the responses of others are the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is created and sustained, the power of labels, such as "deviant," cause reactions - even if no deviant act has been committed. [Term/Concept]
Labeling theory
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] assignment of a deviant identity to a person by others, including agents of social control and social institutions - those who have the power to label and enforce sanctions define who and what is deviant [Term/Concept]
label
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[Definition/Explanation] definition a person has of himself or herself as a deviant [Term/Concept]
Deviant identity
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] actual violation of a norm or law [Term/Concept]
Primary deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] behavior which results from being labeled deviant, regardless of whether the person has engaged in deviance [Term/Concept]
Secondary deviance
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] sequence of movements people mke through a particular subculture of deviance [Term/Concept]
deviant career
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] groups organized around particular forms of social deviance [Term/Concept]
deviant communities
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] characteristic that overrides all other aspects of a person's identity [Term/Concept]
master status
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] attribute that is socially devalued [Term/Concept]
stigma
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] violent or nonviolent crimes directed against people, like rape, assault or robbery [Term/Concept]
personal crimes
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] malicious acts motivagted by various forms of social bias [Term/Concept]
hate crimes
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[Definition/Explanation] theft of property without threat of bodily harm [Term/Concept]
property crimes
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[Definition/Explanation] violates laws , but are not listed in FBIs serious crime list - like gambling, drug use and prostitution in which there is no complainant [Term/Concept]
victimless crimes
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] crime comitted by structured groups [Term/Concept]
Organized crime
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] processs by which different statuses develop in any group, organization, or society [Term/Concept]
Social differentiation
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[Definition/Explanation] system of structured social inequality [Term/Concept]
Social stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] ownership of property and exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over societal resources, typically found in agricultural societies. Majorly based on land ownership. [Term/Concept]
estate system of stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] estate, class, and caste [Term/Concept]
Three types of stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] one's place is an ascribed status (given at birth), hierarchy of different casts is rigid and usually preserved through law and cultural practice [Term/Concept]
caste system of stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] stratification exists, but placement in the system can change according to personal achievements, meaning there is some degree of achieved status [Term/Concept]
class system of stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] the social structural position groups hold relative to economic, social, political and cultural resources. It determines the access different people have to these resources, creating advantage or disadvantage [Term/Concept]
social class (or class)
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[Definition/Explanation] Term by Weber meaning the opportunities people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class [Term/Concept]
life chances
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[Definition/Explanation] Class is a structural phenomenon, it cannot be directly observed. Because it cannot be isolated to be measured, indicators like income, education, occupation, and residence are used to measure class. [Term/Concept]
How is social class measured?
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[Definition/Explanation] Belief system that support the status quo [Term/Concept]
Ideology
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[Definition/Explanation] The ruling class - the capitalists. Through their control of institutions and communications they are able to promote and support their values. [Term/Concept]
According to Marx, who promotes the dominant ideas of a capitalist society?
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[Definition/Explanation] Class conflict is the inescapeable struggle between workers and capitalists, as workers become disatisfied with power and means being concentrated in the hands of an elite few. Marx believed workers would eventually overthrow the capitalists. [Term/Concept]
What is class conflict according to Marx?
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[Definition/Explanation] Classof managers and small business owers which identifies with capitalist interests, even though they do not own the means of production and are exploited by the owners of it. Dependent upon the capitalist system, even though they are exploited by it. [Term/Concept]
What is the middle class according to Marx?
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[Definition/Explanation] Class (economic dimension - access to material goods), status (prestige - the social and cultural judgement or recognition one is given), party (power, the political dimesion, the capacity one has to influence groups and individuals even when opposed) [Term/Concept]
Weber's three dimensions of stratification
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[Definition/Explanation] Societal inequity serves a purpose - it motivates people to fill positions in society that are needed for survival of the whole. Inequality based on reward system that motivated people to succeed, also necessary for cohesion of society. [Term/Concept]
Functionalist perspective of Inequality
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[Definition/Explanation] Inequality based on friction between competing interest groups. Does NOT view inequality as a necessary and positive force which helps society. [Term/Concept]
Conflict perspective of Inequality
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68ed6ca9_Flashcards_about_Sociology_100__Term_Concept
[Definition/Explanation] the process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system [Term/Concept]
status attainment
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[Definition/Explanation] defined by one's income, occupational prestige, and education [Term/Concept]
Socioeconomic status
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[Definition/Explanation] amount of money a person receives in a given period [Term/Concept]
income
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