Chapter 6
According to Émile Durkheim, deviance serves two main functions. Clarifying moral boundaries and
What is promoting social cohesion?
The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy.
What is social stratification?
An inflexible attitude about a particular group of people that is rooted in generalizations or stereotypes.
What is prejudice?
Individuals who accept society’s approved goals but not society’s approved means to achieve them.
What are Innovators?
A form of social stratification in which status is determined by one’s family history and background and cannot be changed.
What is the caste system?
Small-scale racial slights, insults, and misperceptions that play out in everyday interactions between people.
What are microaggressions?
This theory believe that rules are applied unequally and that punishments for rule violators are unequally distributed
One of the three main theoretical perspectives
What is conflict theory?
A measure of an individual’s place within a social class system; often used interchangeably with “class.”
What is socioeconomic status? What is SES?
Daily Double
The required five minimum categories in the census are
White
Black or African American,
Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
and ___________?
What is American Indian or Alaska Native?
In labeling theory, the subsequent deviant identity or career that develops as a result of being labeled deviant.
What is secondary deviance
This is the ideology that anyone can achieve material success if he or she works hard enough.
What is the American Dream?
The misguided belief that we live in a society where racial prejudice and discrimination no longer exist
What is color-blind racism?
Includes visible physical attributes or conditions that society deems undesirable
What is physical stigma?
The now illegal practice of ____, where banks and mortgage lenders refused mortgages to applicants from high-risk areas
What is redlining?
The census began in 1970. How often is the census taken?
What is 10 years?