structured ranking of entire ?groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society
What is Stratification?
100
A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
What is a racial group?
100
rights or immunities ?granted to people as a benefit or ?favor simply because they are white.
What is White privilege?
100
Negative attitude ?toward an entire category of people
What is Prejudice?
200
A lower stage of human development that leads criminal behavior
What is Atavism?
200
Social Stratification system based on both birth and individual achievement.
What is a class system?
200
Rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people.
What is a stereotype?
200
Return on Education for Chinese Americans?
What is 320$?
200
Denial of opportunities and equal rights to people on an arbitrary bias
What is Discrimination?
300
A theoretical explanation of deviance that claims deviance depends on whether or not society provides people with the means to achieve cultural goals
What is Anomie Strain theory?
300
This thesis contends that inequality is functional for society because the greater the functional importance of a position, the more rewards a society attaches to it.
What is the Davis and Moore Thesis?
300
A theoretical explanation or racism that claims racism exist because it keeps minorities in low-paying jobs and supplies dominant group with cheap labor.
What is exploitation theory?
300
The journalist that did ethnographic research on low wage service work in America
Who is Barbara Ehrenreich?
300
The variables used to measure socio-economic status?
What are income, education & occupational prestige?
400
The famous criminologist that suggested we should look at why juveniles do not commit crime instead of why juveniles do commit crime.
He believed 4 different types of social control prevented deviance.
Who Travis Hirschi?
400
The total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts.
What is wealth?
400
Sociohistoric process in which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed
What is Racial Formation?
400
is a set of informal rules governing interpersonal public behavior, including violence in inner-city communities
What is the Code of the Street?
400
A bright shining example of hard work and patience whose example other minority groups should follow.
What is the model minority image?
500
A theoretical approach to crime that claims that who or what is labeled deviant depends on who has power
What is Conflict theory?
500
The current federal minimum wage
What is 7.25?
500
Denial of Opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that result from the normal operations of a society.
What is instiutionalized racism?
500
This man argued that becoming a marijuana user is a learning process
Who is Howard Becker?
500
Changes in children’s position relative to their parents