Stratification
the hierarchical organization of a society into groups with differing levels of power, social prestige, or status and economic resources.
Stratification
This theory argues that patriarchal systems benefit by maintaining gender inequality.
What is Conflict Theory?
This term refers to involuntary, hierarchical classifications based on physical differences, often used to perpetuate inequality.
What is Race?
Education and socialization are the two functions of what?
School
deprivation due to economic circumstance preventing living with dignity
Poverty
a condition in which no differences in wealth, power, prestige, or status based on non natural conventions exist.
Social Equality
This term refers to an invisible barrier preventing women from advancing to top leadership positions.
What is the Glass Ceiling?
This belief system is characterized by three key ideas: humans are divided into distinct bloodlines, these bloodlines are linked to cultures and behaviors, and certain groups are superior to others.
What is Racism?
The nonacademic and less overt socialization functions of schooling.
Hidden Curriculum
the point at which a households income falls below the necessary level to purchase food
Absolute Poverty
the rise or fall of an individual (or group)from one social stratum to another.
Vertical social mobility
This concept describes the faster upward career mobility often experienced by men in female-dominated professions.
What is the Glass Escalator?
This term describes the belief that "one drop" of Black ancestry classifies a person as Black.
What is the "one drop rule"?
Hypothesisstating that parental resources are finiteand that each additional child gets asmaller amount of them.
Resource Dilution Model
U.S. Census poverty threshold is based on food budget × 3
Poverty Line
an approach that ranks individuals by socioeconomic status, including income and educational attainment, and that seeks to specify the attributes characteristic of people who end up in more desirable occupations.
Status attainment model
These are four contributing factors often cited for the gender pay gap.
What are discrimination, care penalty, appetite for competition, and job selection?
Institutions and social systems that appear race-neutral but systematically disadvantage minority groups are referred to by this term.
What is institutional racism?
A set of policies that grant preferential treatment to a number of particular subgroups in regards to employment and education.
Affirmative Action
Economic restructuring and deindustrialization
Wage stagnation and service work
Lack of affordable housing and childcare
Are examples of?
Structural causes of poverty
The idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve wealth, social prestige, and power because the rules of the game
Equality of Oppurtunity
This social movement seeks to understand how gender organizes society and address gender-based inequalities, starting with the first wave in the late 19th century.
What is Feminism?
This new form of racism downplays the existence of racial inequality by emphasizing a supposedly neutral stance that reinforces existing inequities.
What is color blind racism?
What is the structural functionalist take on education?
Drop outs lead to a malfunctioning society. Education is necessary for society to function.
the argument that poorpeople adopt certain practices that differ fromthose of middle class "mainstream" society inorder to adapt and survive in difficult economiccircumstances
Culture of poverty