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| Unequal distribution of power, wealth, and prestige in a society |
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| The layers that form a social stratifacation system |
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| advantaged, priviledged, haves |
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| Disadvantaged, underprivaledged, have-nots |
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| Magnitude of stratifacation |
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| gap between the top and bottom in a system of stratifacation |
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| Capitalist political economies |
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| maximize the magnitude of stratifacation |
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| Socialist political economies |
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| rely upon government programs to moderate the magnitude of stratifacation |
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| 3 basic stratifacation variables |
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social resources
power, weath and prestige |
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| possession of money, property, other valued objects in a society |
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amount of social respect that an individual or group receives in a society
Enhances credibility |
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| movement between social classes |
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| Intergenerational mobility |
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| extent of successive generations experience upward or downward mobility |
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| increases or losses of power, wealth, or status durring someone's lifetime |
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| dominant ideology that justifies human conquest and domination |
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| people get what they deserve |
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| organization devoted to research and writing to develop positions on certain topics |
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| attempts by a group and it's allies to reclaim ground lost to minorities |
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conservative think tanks
trivializes serious challenges to the status quo by minorities who have een disadvantaged by the system |
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| card that maverick moral entrepreneurs play, think of themselves as independent thinkers |
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| blaming someone for problems that they did not create |
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| people shift their anger from a threatening source to a less threatening alternative |
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| present politicians, governments, corporations as concerned about the less fortunate in societies |
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| deliberate violation of a law to bring attention to the law |
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| negative attitude some hold about others |
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| dominant group uses power and is a gatekeeper and denies access to minorities |
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birth family
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| based on divorce and remarried families |
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| education, wealth, power, attitudes, and networks from a family, or lack of, that influence social mobility |
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| amount of money paid for work |
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| everything that a family owns |
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| Factors that distinguish the dominant group from minorities |
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| Race, ethnicity, gender, religion |
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| genetic factors that create different physical features |
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| national or cultural origins determined by where a person's family is from |
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| Sacred ideas that are believed or thought to be true |
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| biological difference of where or not someone is male or female |
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| someone who controls access to opportunities |
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| members of the dominant group control events to sustain their bias and stereotypes about minorities |
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| Affirmative action programs |
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| give minorities a chance to overcome obstacles created by generations of discrimination |
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| requires that minorities adopt the values, beliefs, behavioral preferences, and identity of the dominant group as a condition for acceptance into society |
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| group differences contribute to an emergent script |
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| informal and nonlegal scripts for enforcement segregation between minorities and the dominant group |
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| members of a minority group abandon their values and identity and take on that of the dominant group |
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| point at which members of the dominant group allow some minorities to participate in their patterns of activities |
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| dominant group allows intermarriage with members from a minority group |
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| allowing only a few minorities in |
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| men represent the dominant group |
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| unequal distribution of power, wealth, and prestige among women and men of a society |
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| women represent the dominant group |
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| peddling gender scripts and roles |
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| situations where the prestige of a job falls because more women are employed in it |
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| men and women should be paid based upon their relative worth |
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| process by which women and other minorites are able to rise only so far in a corporation |
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| someone with experience and knowledge about how to deal with corporate politics |
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| different ways people behave around the world caused by cultural scripts |
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| cultural scripts that have been internalized |
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| recognized variability in human sexuality across cultures and socities |
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| assumes that a single sexual script exists within a given society |
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| unconscious denial of a disposition brought about by an ideal self concept attained through socialization |
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| a sexually repressed society |
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| someone who is undecided about something |
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| a person does not practice what they preach |
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| scripted activites that bring couples together for marriage |
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| New couple lives with the parents of male |
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| New couple lives with the parents of female |
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| 3 or more generations work and live together as a family unit |
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mom, dad, and the kids, only two generations
Task is to get rid of the kids |
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| children who come home from school, but there is no parent to supervise them |
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