Sociology quiz 2

The systemativ ranking of different groups of people in a hierarchy of inequality.

A social system in which status is given for life/closed to social mobility.

A social system in which social level is open to movement/changin class status is possible

Individuals social position is liked to acquisition of socially valued credentials/skills.

Individuals social position is linked to characteristics that generally cannot be altered.

A persons economic status in society usally associated wiht income, wealth and occupation.

A society in which personal success is based on talent and individual effort

Set by the government as the minimum amount of money needed to meet the basic needs for a family.

Wallerstein, Core Semi Peripher Periphery

A group sharing apparent physical trais deemed by society to be socieally significant.

The attribution of characteristics to groups of people who share a common cultural heritage.

Groups of people who are discriminated against on the basis of socially constructed characteristics.

Physical/social seperation of different categories of people.

The absorption of a minority group into the dominant culture.

The coexistence of different racial/ethnic groups characterized by acceptance and respect for one antohers differences.

A belief about an individual/group that is not subject to change on the basis of evidence.

The unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their membership in a group.

Biological differences between males/females

Behavioral differences between males/females that are culturally based and socially learned.

An umbrella term used to describe all those who identify ouside their assigned sex or outside the gender binary.

(arlie russle hoshschild) The unpaid housework that women typically do after they come home from paid employment.

An artificial boundary that allows women to see the next occupational or salary level even as structural obstacles keep them from reachingit

THe nearly invisible promotional boost men gain in female dominated occupations.

Belief that social equality should exist between sexes as well as the social movements.

(Dorothy smith) A perspective that says the knowledge we created is conditioned by where we stand or our subjective social position.

Marriage where a person may have more than one spouse at a time

Man, multiple wives

Woman, multiple husbands

Practice of having more than one wife or husband only one at a time.

Social group consisting of one and parents, children and other kin spanning generations live in same household.

A social group consisting of one or two parents and biological dependent children wiht no other kin.

living with a romantic relationship.

Physical/sexual abuse commited by one family member against another.

Transmission of societys norms, values and knowledge base by means of instructural direction.

Holding a job and critical thinking

Education of racial minorities in schools that are seperated from whites.

Based on residential patterns or student choice, persists through legal segregation(now oulawed in US)

A system of common beliefs and rituals centered on sacred things that unites believers and provides a sense of meanign and purpose.

A well establised religious orgnization that exists in a fairly harmonious relationship with the larger socieyt.

A religious organizaiton that has splintered off from an established church in an effort to restore perceived true beliefs and practices.

A Religious organization that is thourally unconcentional with regard to the larger society.