Social Inequality- Intro, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 – Flashcards
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Multiple choice, t or f, matching
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Midterm and Final
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Observations are leaving class to go do something, observe the poor by Gateway, east side vs west side....
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2 writing assignments: 1 paper 2-3 page, 2 is 4-5 pages....content is most important.
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1. What is social inequality? 2.Why is there social inequality? 3. What is the nature of economic inequality today in america society and in other societies like it? 4. What is "power" and who are the powerful in society? 5. What is the nature of racial and ethnic inequality? 6. What is gender inequality? 7. How is social inequality sustained and, conversely, how do societies move toward greater social equality?
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Key Questions of Social Inequality
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ladder
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Social Class is seen as a
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Description, Explanation, Prescription
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Objectives of Inquiry
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Social Differentiation, Social Stratification
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Basic Terms and Concepts
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Wealth, Prestige, Power
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Stratification Dimensions
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Class, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Age
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Stratification Forms
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hierarchies based on various social characteristics (income,occupation,ethnicity,gender,age,and so on)
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Structured Inequality
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uneven distribution of social resources produces variations in people's actual living standards or life conditions.
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Inequality of condition
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differences in peoples chances of acquiring social resources
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Inequality of oppurtunity
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basic life chances include education, physical, and mental health, residence, and justice
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Life Chances- opportunities that people have to acquire social resources.
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Life gives you this desgination- gender, race etc.
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Life given Status
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career, hobbies, criminal
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Choice based status
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Long range stability and popular acceptance require the development of an effective ideology and its communication through socialization.
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Legitimation
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set of beliefs and values that explain and justifies a society system of power and privileges, that is, structured inequality
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Ideology
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opened and equal opportunity to rise to the top
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Individualism
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ability of individuals to change their positions in a social hierarchy is referred to as mobility.
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Individual Mobility
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group class stratification, the group itself moves, chinese moved up as new immigrants came in, same as structured mobility
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group mobility
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when the bottom of the barrel, gets moved up because there is a new bottom
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structured mobility
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distribution of the society's rewards in a just manner
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Equity
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freedom to pursue one's interests as one desires and to reap the benefits of one's efforts
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Liberty
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Karl Marx, Max Weber
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Two important theorist....
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bourgeois and proletariat
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Karl Marx believed in two social classes...
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why is there inequality in societies and is it inevitable?
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two important queestions
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system of production by which people provide for their material existence is the society's economic foundation
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mode of production
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time where Karl Marx saw society change (influencing his theories) the industrial revolution
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historical materialism
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inequality arises as a result of control of productive resources, things that are needed to supply society
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means of production
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control
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ruling class
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the ability to get ones way even with the resitience of others
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power
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prevailing system is thus seen as just, fair, and working in the interest of social classes.
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false consciousness
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meshing of economics and politics according to Marx
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political economy
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authority, coercion (authority is legitimate, coercion is illegitimate) charismatic
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Max Weber believes in different types of power
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legal/rational, traditional, charismatic
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Different types of power
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enables vast numbers of people of playing parts to a functional unit.
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bureaucracy
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Forms of capitol: Economical, Culture, Social
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Bourdieu
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inequality is good for society
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Kingsley Davis
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functional and conflict
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Two theories that are useful
