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Sociology 101 CSN Test 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
04/10/2011

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PATRIARCHY
Definition
• A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line.
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ETHNICITY
Definition
• The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition
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FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY
Definition
• a change in the levels of poverty biased against women or female headed households
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SEGREGATION
Definition
• The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart
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DRED SCOTT
Definition
• United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
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BYSTANDER APATHY
Definition
• The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present
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DAVIS MOORE THESIS
Definition
• social stratification is beneficial to society need to reward occupation that requires greater resources
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SOCIAL CONTROL
Definition
• Any control, either formal or informal, that is exerted by a group, especially by one's peers
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CRIME
Definition
• An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law
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DEVIANCE
Definition
• The fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards
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PLURALISM
Definition
• All races/ethnicities are distinct but have social poverty (equality)
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15TH AMENDMENT
Definition
• guaranteed blacks the right to vote.
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INTERGENERATION MOBILITY
Definition
• a measure of the changes in social status which occurs from the parents' to the children's generation.
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INTRAGENERATION MOBILITY
Definition
• movement up or down the social ladder within one generation.
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STIGMA
Definition
• a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person’s self-concept and social identity
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VICTUM DISCOUNTING
Definition
• reducing the seriousness of the crime based on the persons background
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JIM CROW LAWS
Definition
• mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans
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FEMINISM
Definition
• The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men
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PREJUDICE
Definition
• irrational generalization about an entire category of people
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GENDER
Definition
• Personal traits and social positions that differentiate between male and female
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RACE
Definition
• Socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that society deems important
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MINORITY
Definition
• Category of people category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that society sets a parts.
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SCAPEGOAT
Definition
• Physical/social separation of categories of people
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COLONALISM
Definition
• Process by which countries economically/ socially politically exploit poor countries
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DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION CONTROL THEORY
Definition
• weather you conform to or reject deviance, depends the amount of contact with others who encourage conventional behavior.
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BIO/PERSONALITY THEORIES OF DEVIANCE
Definition
• FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL WHILE EXCLUDING SOCIAL ENVIORMENT
• YES= INDIVIDUAL ENIVORMENT
• NO=SOCIAL ENVIORMENT
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