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| This reflects the concept of stereotyping stability, as people selectively recall instances that confirm their stereotypes and forget about disconfirming instances. |
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| Sally thinks that men on the street corner asking for work are lazy and looking for a handout or money for drugs. When she sees one getting into the back of a pick-up truck she overlooks it and thinks of other times when people were not working. Which concept does this reflect? |
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| Interactionist perspective. |
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| When Paul sees poor people, especially those on the street, he thinks that the difference between them is how hard he works compared to the poor people. This is an example of which concept’s view of prejudice? |
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| One of the best ways to reduce prejudice is to have interpersonal contact, by speaking to another group and hearing their point of view, it should reduce prejudice. |
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| The contact hypothesis claims… |
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| Indirect Institutionalized Discrimination |
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Definition
| The University of California system recently decided to take race/ethnicity off of their college admission application. They argued that the gap between blacks and whites had closed sufficiently enough that they no longer needed to use race as a criteria. One consequence of this decision has been the gradual decline of blacks and Hispanics and a gradual increase in white and Asian students. This is an example of which form of discrimination? |
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| Dysfunction of prejudice and discrimination, in that is a failure to utilize resources efficiently. |
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Definition
| In class, Dr. McNeal used an example of medical doctors in relation to minorities and prejudice/discrimination and how they reflect a particular concept. Which concept did this reflect? (no, I won’t tell you if you did not attend class) |
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| Stereotyping stability – when people encounter instances that disconform from their stereotype beliefs, they tend to assume those instances are atypical for that group. |
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| Sam stereotypes white men as being non-athletic (e.g. white men can’t jump). When he meets Paul, a white man who can dunk, he assumes Paul is the exception to the rule. Which concept does this reflect? |
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| Isolate Discrimination/ Indirect institutionalized (not linked to prejudice) / Merton’s Typology: Unprejudiced discriminator. |
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Definition
| A gentleman who runs a hardware store has always served minorities who come into his store. One day he was told that if he continues to serve minorities his business will be burned down. If he stops serving them this would be an example of ____ |
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| Indirect Institutionalized Discrimination |
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Definition
| A company has a dress code prohibiting the use of headscarves. This leads to a lot of conflict in the workplace since headscarves are associated with religion for some of the workers. This is an example of: |
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| Which theorists contend that prejudice and discrimination encourages support for the existing order? |
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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Definition
| Which theorist would most likely contend that minorities are predominantly poor because they deserve it or because they are too lazy to hold a steady job? |
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Term
| Split-labor market theory |
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Definition
| Theory where hiring a person of one ethnic (usually minority) group is much cheaper than hiring a person of another (usually white) group. Example: minorities taking jobs in casinos sweeping or cleaning bathrooms because they will do the work cheaper than a white person would. |
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| Direct Institutionalized Discrimination |
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Definition
| Gated communities can be used as an example of which concept? |
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Term
| What is the relational model of inequality? |
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Definition
| Model used to resolve conflict, where a number of categories are assessed like race, class, gender etc. between people and jobs, attaching meaning to those categories, and then making claims based on those categories in order to make a statement or stop a false stereotype. |
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| Direct Institutionalized Discrimination/ Internationalist Perspective |
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Definition
| When somebody uses the hegemonic / ruling ideology to support the status quo, they are most aligned with which theoretical perspective? |
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Term
| The Conflict Perspective / Functionalist perspective says that dominant and oppressed group must co-exist. |
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Definition
Public schools are funded by local tax dollars. This arrangement can be an example of which concept?
Which concept contends that the dominant and oppressed group must co-exist? |
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Term
| Even though we define who we are by who we are not, we do not mix EXCLUSIVELY (only, completely) with a certain social group or category or that all social interactions with people are the same (ex. Supermarket “hello!” Acquaintances aren’t family. Inclusive means they all may belong to one category, and Exclusive means they may belong to only one category, such as being rich, or poor. |
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Definition
When a population is broken down into two groups, one group is always better off than the other group.
When Payne uses the term exclusive, he is referring to: |
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Term
1) Social rules define what we do, or do not do.
2) The value of rules, and the rules themselves, change.
3) Your perspective is colored by your memberships and location among social divisions / categories / groups
4) Use of social location for identity |
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| According to Payne, which of the following is NOT true about social rules: (the 4 rules are as follows: |
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| Some social divisions such as race and gender are natural divisions that have similar social meaning in every society.(T/F) |
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Term
| You use your social location to give yourself an identity to which you discriminate from there. |
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Definition
| What importance does social location serve in reference to prejudice and discrimination? |
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Term
| The fact that there are not one or two social divisions, there are many, and many subcategories to go with the “public” and “personal” distinctions. |
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Definition
| What trait makes it more difficult to establish Hispanics and Latinos as having two different social divisions? |
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Term
| There are structural limitations to ones success, human agency still exists, but it is constrained by so-called “fault lines,” such as class, age, gender, religion, age, sexuality, and disability. |
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| What do Demos and his colleagues mean when they say there are fault lines that affect human behavior? |
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Term
| That a SOP is a dynamic system. |
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Definition
| Targets of discrimination have gradually shifted in American society. At one time, African Americans were the primary, if not exclusive, target of discrimination in the Southern United States. Today, there has been a gradual shift where Hispanic immigrants (primarily Mexicans) have become the target of overt and at times hostile discrimination. They shift best reflects which aspect of a system of oppression? |
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Term
A SOP is maintained by the oppressor and the oppressed – hegemony. The dominant group’s ideology is all-inclusive to everyone, even the oppressed accept it. Things like school and the media.
A SOP is invisible, no contact from some dominant members, just blame the victim for others. |
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Definition
| A system of oppression is characterized as having ten basic traits. Which reflects the fact that targets of oppression are not necessarily responsible for the social conditions for which they are blamed? |
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Term
| A SOP is a structural phenomenon. |
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Definition
| A system of oppression is very diverse and extensive, encompassing various locales and institutions. Which element of a system of oppression does this most closely reflect? |
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Definition
| The system of oppression that the civil rights era fought against reflected ALL ten of the principles on which a system of oppression is based. (T/F) |
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| The systems of oppression operating against class, race, gender and sexuality are fundamentally different, individual and isolated systems of oppression. (T/F) |
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| The Internationalist Perspective |
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Definition
| To some degree, a case can be made that members of oppressed groups themselves by accepting their plight, internalizing the various stereotypes and expectations and act accordingly. This process reflects which concept? |
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Term
| Processing goods from across the globe and assembling them all in one place is a “spatially decentralized” form of business |
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Definition
| Many automobiles have parts manufactured across the globe. What is most popular now, mostly to avoid import tariffs, is to label cars as being “Assembled in the USA”. This process applies to a wide range of products and best reflects which process? |
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Term
| This is an example of downsizing and a division of labor |
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Definition
| There is a declining need for computer programmers in the Unites States. Due to technological change engineers can be employed in other parts of the world and still work for US companies. These are example(s) of what concept? |
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Term
| Through a small channel via the comfort class |
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Definition
| According to the double-diamond class structure, how does one access the privileged class? |
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Term
| Most of the new working class excluding the comfort class are one paycheck away from poverty, specifically those in the contingent class. The excluded class is poverty |
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Definition
| According to the double-diamond class structure, which class is often one paycheck away from poverty? |
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Term
| When credentials and experiences are equal (official term, is claiming turf) |
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Definition
| When does social capital matter most? |
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Term
1) Wealth
2) Income
3) Asses |
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Definition
| Max Weber has three distinct elements for defining social class, which of the following is NOT one of those three elements? (3 elements are as follows) |
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Term
| He believes non-economic factors are important, such as reputation (social status) and authority (bureaucracy) |
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Definition
| In Weber’s response to Marx, which element(s) does he contend Marx lacks and is necessary to fully understand social class |
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Term
| Class relations (life chances) |
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Definition
| According to Weber, what is the key element for understanding how social class works? |
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Term
1) Professional, managerial, administrative and technical occupations
2) Self-employed
3) Small-scale property owners |
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Definition
| Who are the major actors for the intermediate class? (3) |
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| One criticism of how the advantaged classes are defined is the inability to clearly distinguish between small-scale and large-scale property ownership. (T/F) |
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| According to Scott (in Payne’s book Social Divisions), each strata of occupational and social stratification contains complex layers of people, often with competing class and occupational commend situations. (T/F) |
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Term
| Develop a shared understanding of patterns or stratification. |
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Definition
| According to Scott (in Payne’s book Social Divisions), people in similar class and command situations often do what? |
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Term
| #4: That using the term “underclass” lumps together a number of different people. |
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Definition
| Which of the ten dangers of using the term underclass corresponds to using stereotypes and label(s)? |
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Term
| The Switch to Poverty – Not Employment (1970s) Behavioral element, the way you act gets you into the underclass (have a baby to get a bigger welfare check) |
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Definition
| Which definition of the underclass takes on a racial undertone? |
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Term
| The Contemporary Measure. Used education: you had to be a high school dropout. Used unemployment. Used income: poverty dollars. Used Household Structure: single moms with children to be in underclass, men could not be in underclass. |
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Definition
| Which measure was used when household structure was used to describe the underclass? |
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Term
| We created poverty through pockets of grouped individuals. Jobs moving to the suburbs and were replaced by…no jobs! Leading to chronic underemployment. |
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Definition
| What did Coleman mean by the “concentration effect”? |
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Term
| Example: that the poor are becoming more and more concentrated. |
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Definition
| What is meant by the mismatch hypothesis? |
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