Economic Inequality
The difference between wealth and income.
What is wealth, being the amount of money in a bank account plus any assets or investments minus debt? What is income being a stable source of money?
The speaking with credibility about a subject.
The practice of discipling and punishing youth in school that puts them on the path out of education and into the criminal justice system.
Second Shift
What is the unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that family members do once they return home from their paid jobs?
Soverign, self-contained territories.
What is a Nation-State system
The invisible barrier that prevents someone from climbing socially or falling socially.
Reform Social Movement.
What is a movement where everyone experiences limited social change?
A resource desert (give an example)
What is a region that is lacks essential critical amenities?
Shared division of labor
What is an arrangement where both parents do an equal amount of paid and unpaid work
A form of power where those in power maintain control by promoting shared values and beliefs that align with their interests.
What is cultural hegemony
The name for the new working class, when people have economically precarious lives.
What is the precariat?
The Critical Event. (provide example)
What is a sudden event that causes non-activists to become politically active?
The practice of refusing loans to or steeply overcharging anyone buying homes in poor and minority neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
The sorting of women and men into different social identities and occupations. (Ex. Women are more likely to nurses, teachers, secretaries. Men are more likely to be plumbers, doctors, and construction workers.)
What is gender segreration in jobs?
Elite theory of power.
What is that a small group of networked individuals controls the most powerful positions in our social institutions?
The prestige, honor, respect, and power associated with different class positions.
What is socioeconomic status?
Shared activities that are widely recognised as expressions of dissatisfaction with social conditions. (provide an example)
What is the repertoire of contention?
Environmental Racism
What is the practice of exposing ethnic or minority groups to more toxins and pollutants than white people encounter?
A positive correlation between the number of men in an occupation relative to women and the wages paid to employees.
What is the androcentric pay scale?
Global Imagined Community.
What is the concept refering to the way people precieve themselves as part of global community?
Stratification
What is the ranking of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and life changes in a society?
The Social construction of social problems
Disparities in the academic accomplishments of different kinds of students.
What is the achievement gap?
A phrase that refers to a sweeping change in gender relations that started but has yet to be fully idealized
The idea that the U.S government is characterized by competing groups that work together to achieve their goals.
What is the pluralist theory of power?