Culture
The shared beliefs, practices, or symbols which bring together a community
What is Culture
The violation of an accepted cultural norm
What is deviance?
Institutions like governments, businesses, and families. And patterned relationships like President-Citizen, Doctor-patient, or Parent-Child. Which make up private lives
What are social structures?
An individuals position and ranking in a group
What is status?
It was established by Franz Boas, it argues that differences in cultures occur naturally and with no objective superior
What is Cultural Relativism
Behaviors that are acceptable by a societies dominate culture.
The four classes in the US
The poor, Lower Middle, Upper Middle and Wealthy
The responsibilities and obligations an individuals owes to their group
What are roles?
When a culture exerts disproportionate influence/power in a society it is said to have this.
What is Cultural Hegemony?
What is self policing?
The phenomena of making more or less income relative to an individuals parents at the same age
What is social mobility?
In these sort of systems status and roles are inherited from birth
What are caste systems?
What are subcultures?
The type of deviance that violates formal norms.
What is formal deviance?
Marx's considered these to be the only two classes
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
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This group argued that subcultures are created due to the poor's inability to engaged in high class/expensive cultural activities.
What is the Birmingham School?
A school of thought that argues deviance happens when individuals who want to achieve socially expected goals do not have the means.
What is Strain Theory?
Argued economic stratification occurs due to deep internalized biases when making hiring decisions.
What is the David-Moore thesis?
The ability for stereotypes to limit the efforts of the stereotyped group
What is stereotype theart