Gender Inequalities
This is the percentage of the dollar a woman typically earns for every dollar a man makes in the U.S.
The lifelong social experience in which people develop humanity and learn culture
What is socialization?
This country has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with approximately 2.2 million people currently behind bars.
What is the United States
This term refers to the phenomenon where students from wealthier backgrounds tend to have access to better educational resources, leading to a gap in academic achievement.
What is educational inequality?
This is the process of gaining knowledge or skills through experience, study, or teaching.
What is learning?
This term refers to the disparity in earnings between men and women, especially for the same job or work of equal value.
What is the gender pay gap?
Everything that makes up our constructed physical environment
What is material culture?
This term refers to the phenomenon in which the U.S. incarcerates a disproportionate number of Black and Latino individuals relative to their share of the population.
What is mass incarceration?
This term refers to the growing gap between the richest and the poorest in society, which has been a significant feature of many developed countries in recent decades.
What is income inequality?
The violation of social norms/rules/expectations?
What is deviance?
This group of women, particularly women of color, faces the largest wage gap compared to white men in the United States.
Who are Black women?
The relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not casually related to each other
What is a spurious relationship?
The U.S. has approximately this many people serving life sentences in prison, many of whom are not eligible for parole.
What is 200,000
This sociologist argued that education in capitalist societies functions to reproduce social class structures by preparing individuals for roles that match their social class origins
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
Blemishes that discredit a person's claim to a "normal" identity
What is stigma?
The gender pay gap in this sector is often especially pronounced, with women earning less than men in industries such as finance and technology.
What is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
A status or social position that a person is assigned involuntarily
What is ascribed status?
Compared to women, why are men more likely to be arrested (for various crimes)?
What is women are more intelligent than men
This economic theory argues that the poor remain poor because they are trapped in a cycle of poverty due to a lack of resources and opportunities.
What is the culture of poverty theory?
Inborn tendencies (for example a tendency to commit deviant acts)
What is genetic predisposition?
This U.S. legislation, signed into law in 1963, was designed to address the gender pay gap and prohibit wage discrimination based on gender.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
Automatic assignment by the dominant culture of the children of parents from different socio-economic/ethnic groups to the3 sub ordinated group
What is hypo-decent?
The US state and federal prison population increased dramatically starting from the 1980's, what influenced this?
What are sentencing policy changes, especially longer and harsher sentences
The testosterone bonus means that on average employers start men off on ____ salaries than women and ____ catchup.
Higher, Never
Having multiple social identities are causing conflict