Sociology 2nd Exam Vocab – Flashcards
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One-person
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More people live in----households than any other time in history
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Idea,idea
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Symbols communicate----while being distinct from----itself
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Distinctions of honor, inequality, competition
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Studying symbols helps us understand things about society that are not often discussed
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Media framing
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Theories discusses how the media creates narrative for public to make sense out of what happening around them
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Thick descriptions
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Ethnographer Clifford Greertz argue that---- of context are necessary to understand meaning behind behaviors
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Our taste, preferences, skills
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Bourdieu's concept of habitus refers to----
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Children
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NOT a subculture
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U.S. Army
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NOT a counterculture
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Hegemony
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----legitimizes and empowers a societies elites
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California
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Highest percent of Americans do not speak English at home in----
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40 %
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Proportion of americans nonwhite
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Achieve shared goals
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Function of positive power is to----
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Agenda setting
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Presidents engage in----focusing on topics, such as health care, that they believe are most important
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Three-dimensional
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Your boss comes into the office, you try to look as busy as possible
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Welfare state
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Social security, Health and unemployment insurance, welfare for poor families compromise----
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Downward
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Since end of World War II, trend in the corporate tax rate has been----
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Ronald Reagan
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Attempted to close some loopholes that GE was using to avoid corporate income taxes
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Higher than
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Rates of poverty in U.S. are----the rates of poverty in comparison group of similar high income nations after gov. antipoverty programs are taken into account
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Social inequality
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The concept of---- at the heart of study of social stratification
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Hunting and gathering societies
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Fewest opportunities for social inequality to emerge
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Slaves
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No rights of citizenship, are compelled to work for others
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$31,000
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Average income per person in the U.S. by 2008
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Mexican
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According to Forbes magazine, in 2012, richest individual in world
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$180,000/$21,000
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According to US Census Bureau data from 2010, top 5% of Americans had family incomes above----whereas bottom 20% had earning under----
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32%
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Top 1% of world's population controls---- of entire world's wealth
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$2.00 a day
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2 billion of world poor live on less than----
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Considered as income
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Illegal or "underground" earnings from crime or from untaxed (undeclared) work or activity----
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Exceeds
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For poor and middle-class families, consumption often----reported income
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U.S.
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Comparative data indicate,only----is NOT considered egalitarian
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1980's
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Homelessness began to grow into a serious problem in U.S.
