CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
This theory says the criminal justice system distorts crime to make street crime look like the biggest threat.
What is the carnival mirror?
This process makes society more efficient, predictable, calculated, and controlled.
What is rationalization?
This invisible barrier prevents women from advancing in male-majority fields.
What is the glass ceiling?
The idea that family forms depend on their social, economic, and historical context.
What is the social construction of family?
The theory that schools teach skills and maintain social stability.
What is functionalism?
From a conflict perspective, deviance is defined by this group in society.
Who are the powerful?
Breaking jobs into tiny repetitive tasks describes this management system.
What is Taylorism or scientific management?
Kanter’s term for women being highly visible, stereotyped, and socially isolated.
What is tokenism?
Childhood as a protected and extended life stage emerged in this era.
What is the modern/industrial era?
Schools funded by local property taxes create inequality due to this historical housing practice.
What is redlining?
According to Reinarman, drug scares rely on scapegoating, media exaggeration, and this political benefit.
What is social control?
Marx says workers lose connection to the product, process, others, and themselves through this.
What is alienation?
This concept explains why men in women-dominated fields get promoted faster.
What is the glass escalator?
This post-WWII policy helped create the myth of the nuclear family.
What is the GI Bill or government housing subsidies?
The process where students of color, especially boys, are disciplined more harshly.
What is adultification?
Pager’s study found that this group received more callbacks even with a criminal record.
Who are white men?
Weber identified this many characteristics of bureaucracies.
What is five?
According to Wingfield, men of this racial group do not benefit from the glass escalator.
Who are Black men?
This term refers to weakening norms and expectations around marriage.
What is deinstitutionalization?
Arnett Ferguson’s work “Bad Boys” examined how schools construct this identity for Black boys.
What is criminal or deviant masculinity?
This country’s prison system emphasizes rehabilitation, dignity, and normalization.
What is Sweden?
Ritzer’s concept where society becomes like fast-food restaurants.
What is McDonaldization?
The media claimed women were “choosing” to leave careers in what was called this revolution.
What is the opt-out revolution?
Today, marriage is seen as a symbolic achievement known as this.
What is a capstone?
This state reformed its funding system to redistribute school resources more equally.
What is Vermont?