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| "blemishes" or "faults" that discredit a person's claim to a "normal" identity. |
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| What is the control theory? |
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| The theory that suggests that there are two control systems that helps a person not to deviate. There is a outer and an inner system. |
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| In terms of the control theory, in what one phrase it can be summarized? In what time period in the person's life? |
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| In terms of the control theory, how can parents help their child develop self control? |
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| By supervising them and punishing them for deviant acts. |
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| What is a degradation ceremony? |
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| a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone's self identity by stripping away that individual's self identity and placing it with an new identity. |
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| What are the Four Deviant Paths? |
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Innovators
Ritualism
Retreatism
Rebellion |
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What is white collar crime?
What is there nickname? |
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Crimes that people of high status and respect commit during their course of their career or occupation.
"men in suits" |
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| How much does white collar crime cost society? How many times is that more that street crimes? |
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several hundred billion dollars a year
at least ten times the cost |
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| Even though African-Americans make up just 12.8 percent of the U.S. what is the ratio of prisoners are African-American? |
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| 2 out of 5 prisoners are AA. |
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| What does the conflict theory suggest? |
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| That laws are built to serve the elite, at the the expense of the lower class. |
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| What is the recidivism rate? |
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| the percentage of released convicts who are rearrested. |
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| For People sent to prison for crimes of violence, within the first 3 years of their release, how many are rearrested? How many are sent back to prison? |
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2 out of 3 are rearrested (62 percent).
Half (52 percent) are sent back to prison. |
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| What is gender stratification? |
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| males' and females' unequal access to property, power and prestige. |
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| Why is gender because it is what kind of status? |
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| Time after time, researchers have found that boys and men that have higher levels of testosterone tend to be what? |
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| boys and men that have higher levels of testosterone tend to be more aggressive? |
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| Universally what is given to male activities-regardless of what those activities are? |
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| It's not the work that provides the prestige, but the _____ with which the work is associated? |
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| Does woman earn less than men across the world or just the united states? How much does woman earn as an percentage from men in USA? |
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Across the world or in every nation.
about 70 percent. |
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| Is female circumcision violence against women? |
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| Of USA's top 500 companies, how many of those are led by women? |
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| 12 out of the 500 companies. |
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| What is the glass ceiling? |
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| the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels at work. |
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| What is sexual harassment? |
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| the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone. |
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| How many races are there? |
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| The term "race" is so arbitrary that biologists and anthropologists cannot agree on how many "races" there are. |
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| Having distinctive cultural characteristics. |
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| What are the four minority group characteristics? |
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1) Physical or cultural traits are held in low esteem.
2) They are treated unfairly.
3) Tend to marry within their group
4) Ascribed status |
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| an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group. |
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| an attitude or pre-judging, usually in a negative way. |
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| What is the difference between discrimination and prejudice? |
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| discrimination is an act, where as prejudice is an attitude. |
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| Based off the study of Banaji and Greenwald what is the findings they made about showing picture of whites and blacks to people? |
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| That negative biased perception was practiced by both blacks and whites. The findings show that we all learn the ethnic maps of our culture and along with them their route to biased perception. |
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| the process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture. |
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| What is is the two types of assimilation? |
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| Forced and permissible assimilation |
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| What and when was the Civil Rights Act? |
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| Civil Rights Act made it illegal to discriminate based off of race. In 1964. |
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| "We are all Indians" an attempt to develop an identity that goes beyond tribes that also emphasize the common elements of the tribe. |
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| Does native Americans say it should be them that recognize that they should establish the common elements that makes them all Indians? |
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| a form of marriage in which men has more than one wife. |
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| a form of marriage in which a woman has more that one husband. |
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| two or more people that are related either by blood, adoption, or marriage. |
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| people who occupy a living space together. |
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| What is a nuclear family? |
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| a family that consists of the husband, wife and child(ren). |
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| What is some of the differences between Indian and American marriage? |
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Parents arrange 90 percent of marriages in India while America doesn't arrange marriages.
It's about protecting the caste system in India, whereas in America there is really no such thing.
Now though Indian couples have veto power over an parent's selection.
They are allowed to talk to each other now as well |
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| What's true about African american marriage? |
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AA families are the least likely to be headed by married couples and most likely to be headed by a female.
Because AA women tend to go farther in college, they face a marriage squeeze. |
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What are some problems of having single parent woman headed households?
What about children in single parent women headed households? |
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Women that head single households tend to be poor.
Children tend to have more behavioral problems, drop outta school to get arrested, and to have physical and emotional health problems, and to get an divorce. |
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