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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2011

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Weber on Class
Definition
Argues that class is a group that has its basis common life chances or opportunities available to it in the marketplace.
. What distinguishes members of a class is that the have similar value in the commercial marketplace in terms o selling their own property and labor.
Term
phrenology
Definition
Cataloged variation by race, including differences in head formation, a pseudoscience call
Term
Lamarckism
Definition
Acquired traits can be passed down across generations
Term
Eugenics
Definition
The theory of controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation.
Term
Straight-line assimilation
Definition
Mimic the practices and behaviors of the folks who were already there, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country
Term
 Cultural
• Change of cultural patterns to those of host society
 Structural
• Large-scale entrance into cliques
 Marital
• Large-scale intermarriage
 Identification
• Development of sense of collective identity based exclusively on host society
 Attitude Receptional
• Absence of prejudice
 Behavior Reception
• Absence of Discrimination
 Civic Assimilation
• Absence of value and power conflict.
Definition
seven states of assimilation
Term
 Contact
 Competition
 Accommodation
 Assimilation
Definition
Rober Park four stages
Term
• Noticed something that these theories of assimilation could not explain
 People did not so easily shed their ethnic ties
 Ethnic identification, among whites ethnics and everyone else, persisted even after a group attained certain levels of structural assimilation
Definition
Harold Isaacs on assimilation
Term
Explained this persistence as a matter of primordialism
Definition
Clifford Geertz
Term
Primordialsim
Definition
 The strength of ethnic ties resides in deeply felt or primordial ties to one’s culture
 Ethnicity is in a word fixed
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Essentialism
Definition
Line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones
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