Social Stratification
Group of similar wealth, power, and prestige
Social Class
Alterations in various aspects of society over time
Social Change
Stereotype
Unverified pieces of information that spread
Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
Norms
Movement between social classes
Social mobility
the knowledge and tools people use to create change
Technology
A group who is singled out and treated unequally due to physical traits and culture
Minority Group
information often of biased or misleading nature, to promote political opinion or point of view
Propoganda
Behavior that violates significant social norms
Deviance
Standard of living below the minimal level considered adequate by society
Poverty
A system of beliefs that justifies social, moral, religious, political, or economic interest held by a group or society
Ideology
One group of systematically destroys another
genocide
Temporary group of people close enough in proximity to interact
Crowd
Reward or punishment used to enforce conforming to norms
Sanctions
Unequal sharing of scarce resources and rewards
Social inequality
People believe their own ideas are better than other cultures
Ethnocentrism
people who share a common cultural background and a common sense of identity
Ethnic group
Spontaneous and uncoordinated group effort to escape perceived threat
Panic
Control theory
When Class is determined by income, occupation, and education
Objective method
Societies rise, go through stages of development, and decline
Cyclical theory
Minority group adopts patterns of majority
Assimilation
shared understandings of a term
Collective preoccupations
Deviance is a natural outgrowth of the values, norms, and structure of society
Strain Theory