Authority & Health
Max Weber defined this as the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
What is the state?
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?
This term describes collective behavior that is purposeful, organized, and aims to bring about social change through institutional and extra-institutional means.
What is a social movement?
This term describes marriage to someone within one’s own social group.
What is endogamy?
This concept, coined by Weber, describes power that is exercised through legal, impersonal rules, often seen in modern bureaucracies.
What is legal-rational authority?
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?
According to this theory by Neil Smelser, six conditions are necessary for a social movement to coalesce and succeed.
What is value-added theory?
This sociologist argued that religion serves to reinforce social cohesion and maintain societal order.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Developed by Talcott Parsons, this concept outlines the social rights and obligations of a person who is ill.
What is the sick role?
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"?
These are the three stages that social movements generally evolve through, starting from initial awareness to becoming an established organization.
What is emergence, coalescence, and routinization?
This 1967 Supreme Court case legalized interracial marriage in the United States.
What is Loving v Virginia?
This term refers to the process by which issues not traditionally seen as medical become defined and treated as medical conditions.
What is medicalization?
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?
This type of social movement seeks limited social change but targets the entire society, aiming to reform specific aspects.
What is a reformative movement?
This religious phenomenon refers to the peaceful coexistence of multiple faiths within one society, often challenging the dominance of a single religious tradition.
What is pluralism?
This experiment demonstrated how far individuals would go in obeying authority, even when their actions conflicted with personal conscience.
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?
This term describes the difficulty in organizing large groups because individuals may avoid contributing while still benefiting from the group's efforts.
What is the collective action problem?
This term describes a family structure that goes beyond parents and children to include relatives like grandparents and cousins.
What is extended family?