Gender
What is the sorting of people with different social identities into separate occupations?
what is job segregation?
What is a term for "a term that refers to a society’s production of unjust outcomes for some racial or ethnic groups"
What is racism?
What is an economic system based on private ownership of the resources used to create wealth and the right of individuals to personally profit
What is a theory about how labels that are applied to us influence our behavior?
All the workers in the factory refuse to work decide to sit down on the floor. Some even dismantle their machines, so other workers cannot come replace them. This is a common social movement tactic that relies on people not complying with social expectations. What is this term?
What is interdependent power (the power of noncooperation)?
Name some female-dominated occupations AND name some male-dominated occupations?
What are:
female-dominated: teachers, childcare workers, dental hygienist, administrative assistants, hairdresser, maids, nurses
male-dominated: brick masons, mechanics, roofers, firefighters, construction, truck drivers, pest control
Peter, a white man, lives in a cul-de-sac. All his neighbors are white. All his classmates at school (because schools are often made up of nearby residents) are white. The only time he really sees anybody who is a person of color is when he goes to the grocery store with his mom (when she makes him). He experiences ________.
What is hypersegregation?
What is an economic system based on shared ownership of the resources used to create wealth that is then distributed by governments for the enrichment of all
What is the socialism?
What is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation (e.g. embezzlement)?
What is white collar crime?
What is the lazy form of activism, usually facilitated by the internet?
What is slacktivism?
Bonus 20 points if you can answer - who primarily does this work?
What is care work?
Who are women? Or, feminine people?
After it was announced that schools were going to be integrated, federal marshals escorted a six-year-old Ruby Bridges to and from the school building at William Frantz Elementary to protect her from the angry mob outside. The mob is an example of ______
What is white fight?
Sami is the primary provider for her four children. She works two retail jobs but still only makes $27,000 a year. She is a part of what economic group?
What is the working poor?
What is the idea that we need to be recruited into and taught criminal behavior by people in our social networks
What is differential association theory?
What is the biggest problem with social movements?
What is the collective action problem, which is the challenge of getting large groups of people to act in coordinated ways?
Roscoe works as a fifth-grade science teacher. After ONLY three years, administrators from central office approach him and ask him if he is interested in a principal position at another local grade school. He experiences _______.
My mom taught the PRIDE students (those who had already been disciplined by the school, had been in legal trouble, or had been to jail). These students were often taught in the basement and not allowed to interact with other students, even at lunch. It was assumed that they were trouble-makers and they would likely end up in jail anyway once they left the school. This describes _______.
What are the glass ceiling, glass floor, and glass escalator?
What are:
an invisible barrier that restricts upward mobility
an invisible barrier that restricts downward mobility
an invisible ride to the top offered to men in female-dominated occupations
Describe each of the common justifications for deviance:
What are:
Thinking about the example from the textbook, where children fell down the well, one person thinks that this happened because parents don't parent their kids anymore. This is their account/explanation for why this social event happened. In other words, it's a ______.
What is a frame?
The current administration is concerned about the declining birthrate and is encouraging women to have children. What term describes this?
What are some ways that there is inequality WITHIN schools that disadvantage students of color?
What are:
Describe Karl Marx's theory of capitalism.
The proletariat (working class) works for a living. The bourgeoisie (owning class) are the employers/owners who control the means of production (e.g. the factory). The proletariat perform labor, but they are alienated from what they produce. Eventually, the proletariat will develop class consciousness, refuse to partake in the labor market without fair compensation, and overthrow capitalism (crisis of capitalism).
Also could mention contradictory class location.
Freddie wants to buy his kids a Christmas gift, but he's had a rough year. He doesn't have much money, and his kids' wish list is LONG. He's experiencing strain. How much he deal with each of these as:
1. conformist
2. ritualist
3. innovator
4. retreatist
5. rebel
What are:
1. get another job and thinks that this will work (optimistic about it)
2. get another job but thinks that it won't work and he'll end up disappointing his kids anyway
3. steal the toys
4. decides to reject the idea of Christmas/gifts altogether, refuses to let friends/family give the kids gifts, etc. During holiday time, they don't do anything special.
5. rejects the idea of Christmas/gifts, petitions the school to change the holiday schedule, tries to convince friends/family that Christmas is dumb and a waste of time/money
Pick a social movement - describe the organizational strength, spokespeople, and structures of opportunity that help this movement be successful.
Depends on movement:
organizational strength - A combination of strong leadership, human and material resources, social networks, and physical infrastructure
spokespeople - do the spokespeople have good standing (the authority to speak credibly on a particular topic)?
structures of opportunity - political/cultural/economic opportunities