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Deviance
Social Inequality
Race and Ethnicity
Gender and Sexuality
The Social Contruction of Reality
100
From a functionalist perspective these things exist to protect society
What are laws?
100
a special or unearned advantage.
What is a privilege?
100
the kind of segragation that exists when there are no laws enforcing racial segregation
What is de facto segregation?
100
traits believed to be characteristic of males and females
What are masculinity and femininity?
100
any kind of object or idea to which people assign a name, meaning, or value
What is a symbol?
200
Electronic monitoring is an example of this
What is surveillance?
200
a status that is acquired through some combination of choice, effort, and ability
What is achieved status?
200
A gender/ racial group that has the best chance of living a long life in the United States
Who are Asian females?
200
the behavior and activities expected of someone who is male, female, or some other gender
What are gender roles?
200
mental frameworks that allow people to anticipate what will occur in social encounters and to make broad simplistic generalizations.
What are typifactory schemes?
300
any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged or condemned because it departs from the norms or expectations of some group
What is deviance?
300
According to Max Weber, persons completely unskilled, lacking property, and dependent on seasonal or sporadic employment constitute this
What is the negatively privileged property class?
300
A “hidden ethnicity” is a term sociologist Ashley Doane applies to those who are counted as part of this
What is a dominant ethnic group?
300
an arrangement in which men have systematic power over women in public and private (family) life
What is patriarchy?
300
areas out of sight of an audience, where individuals let their guard down
What is the back stage?
400
Goffman used this term to refer to those who​ posses no stigma ​
Who are normals?
400
This system of stratification is characterized as fluid.
What is class?
400
This emerged as a way to justify European exploitation of nonwhite peoples and their resources
What is modern racism?
400
the extent to which opportunities and resources are unequally distributed between men and women
What is gender stratification?
400
the best-known investigative technique that ethnomethodologists employ to gain insights into the work people do to maintain the social order
What is disrupting social or background assumptions?
500
people that have broken the rules and are caught, punished, and labeled as outsiders
Who are pure deviants?
500
a concept that considers interconnections among race, class, gender, and other socially constructed categories
What is intersectionality?
500
Merton’s nickname for prejudiced nondiscriminators
Who are timid bigots?
500
a normative system that presents the gendered heterosexual nuclear family as the ideal and departures from that system as deviant, even threatening
What is heteronormativity?
500
any group whose standards people take into account when evaluating something about themselves or others
What is a reference group?