Authority
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?
Education and socialization are the two functions of what?
School
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?
The nonacademic and less overt socialization functions of schooling.
Hidden Curriculum
This sociologist argued that religion serves to reinforce social cohesion and maintain societal order.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
The theorist argued that modern society moved from punishing the body in the Middle Ages (physical torture) to punishing the soul(solitary confinement).
Michel Foucault
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
This 1967 Supreme Court case legalized interracial marriage in the United States.
What is Loving v Virginia?
A society where statusand mobility are based on individualattributes, ability, and achievement.
Meritocracy
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
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?
What is the structural functionalist take on education?
Drop outs lead to a malfunctioning society. Education is necessary for society to function.
This term describes a family structure that goes beyond parents and children to include relatives like grandparents and cousins.
What is extended family?