Key Definitions
Teaching students to be on time, to respect authority, and to follow directions can be considered a _____ function of education.
What is "Latent"?
The ongoing struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
What is "Class conflict"?
Sociologist view concepts like gender and race as:
What are "social constructions"?
Minority groups maintain many aspects of their original culture while living peacefully with the host culture; sometimes called “Multiculturalism."
What is "Pluralism"?
Is not real, but is real in its consequences:
What is a "social construct"?
The norms, values, and beliefs of a large group of people:
What is "Culture"?
Sociological perspective that is concerned with the microlevels of society and socializations. They observe that people respond not only to the objective features of a situation or person, but also to the social meaning that situation or person has for them.
What is the "Interactionist Perspective"?
any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged or condemned because it departs from the norms or expectations of some group
What is "Deviance"?
The systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or national group.
What is "Genocide"?
In his study of suicide, he related suicide rates to the extent to which people were integrated into the group life of a society
Who is "Emile Durkheim"?
Unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group.
What is a "Stereotype"?
Negative consequence of a functionalist theory of society
What is "Dysfunction"?
The knowledge and skills needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someone as a person of higher culture.
What is "Cultural Capital"?
The use of the principle of race neutrality to defend a racially unequal status quo is referred to as:
What is "Color-blind racism"?
To save money, a city fires all employees hired during the past three years, the same period as an aggressive minority-hiring program. As a result, the majority of those fired are members of various minority groups.
What is "Institutional Discrimination"?
Marx's analysis of class conflict, conflict theorists would argue that women and minorities are in a position comparable to that of the:
Who are the "Proletariat"?
Sociological perspective most likely to compare the relationship between a colonial nation and the colonized people to the relationship between the dominant capitalist class and the proletariat class?
What is "Conflict Theory"?
any group whose standards people take into account when evaluating something about themselves or others
Who is the "Reference Group?"
People who may be treated differently and unequally because of their physical, cultural, or their characteristics.
What is a "minority group"?
a status that is acquired through some combination of choice, effort, and ability
What is "Achieved"?
Bestowing status on students by awarding them a diploma after they have successfully completed all graduation requirements can be considered a...
What is a "manifest function"?
Theoretical framework that recognizes how different parts of a person's identity, like race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and religion, can overlap and create unique experiences of oppression
What is "Intersectionality"?
As a teenager, I visited a tribe in the jungles of Panama. The people lived in stilt homes with walls made of woven rugs. The men wore loin cloths and the women were topless with elaborate necklaces. This was so different it was disorienting - what is this feeling called?
What is "Culture Shock"?
Vladimir, a Russian immigrant to the U.S., insists that everyone call him "Joe," and he refuses to speak Russian even when in casual conversation with Russian-speaking neighbors. This is an example of:
What is "Assimilation"?
A person who is always the center of attention and comfortable with being a leader probably has what kind of authority?
What is "Charismatic"?