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55 Cards in this Set
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deviance
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a behavior or appearance that follows and maintains the standards of a group.
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social control
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includes the methods used to teach, persuade, or force people to comply with norms and expectations.
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Sanctions
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reactions or responses of approval or disapproval to another's behvior or appearances
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Censorship
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US gov officials delayed release of congressional report on 9-11 for seven months and when the report was released some sections related to Saudi Arabia were balckened out. What mechanism of social control is this known as?
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Surveillance
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Telephone tapping, interception of letters, observations via close circuit television, and electronic monitoring.
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the US
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What country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
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Conformists
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People who have not violated rules of a group and are treated accordingly.
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A witch hunt
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After 9-11 Muslims and Arab Americans have been caught up in a criminal investigation of historical proportions. From a sociologists point of view this criminal investigation would be considered a?
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1.2 billion
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How many people live on less than 1$ per day.
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A systematic
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Social stratification is ____________ process in wich individuals, groups, and places categorized and ranked on a scale of social worth.
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Life chances
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includes everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year of life to the chance to go to college.
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the US
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If we confine our analysis to the worlds 25 wealthiest countries, the inequality gap between the richest 10% and the poorest 10% is greatest in what country?
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Ascribed characteristics
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Attributes that people have at birth, develop over time, or possess through no effort or fault of their own.
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Acheived characteristics
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Attributes tha people acquire through some combination of choice, effort, and ability.
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Apartheid
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a caste system of stratification
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people rise and fall on the strength of their abilities
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Ideally, in a class system of stratification
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black and hispanic households are disproportionately concentrated in lower-income categories.
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Income profiles for households classified as white, black, hispanic show that
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a combination of class and caste systems
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Most systems of stratification, including the US system, are
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Neocolonialism
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the term for continuing economic dependence on former colonial powers
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Pay equity
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inolves paying men and women who work in the same firm and the same occupation equally
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The UN calculates that a ___ percent levy on the richest 225 people could provide for the base needs of the world's 1.2 billion poorest people
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Hispanic
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What is not one of the six official racial categories in the US?
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understanding
DOES include: chance context choice |
Race and ethnic classification are a product of three factors. Those factors include all but what?
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any race
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According to the US system of racial classification, hispanics can/should be classified as?
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lack of access to and control over valued resources
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the key characteristic determining minority status is
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segregation
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the physical and/or social separation of categories of people from one another.
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assimilation
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the process by which individuals give up parts of their own culture to adapt o and be accepted by a new dominant culture
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was coined in early colonial times when the fur traders offered bounties for the scalps of literally the red skins of slaughtered indians
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the term "redskin"
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prejudice is an attitude, discrimination a behavior
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distinguish between prejudice and discrimination
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it overshadows all other attributes that a person might possess.
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a stigma is considered discrediting because...
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government regulated economies
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what characteristic is not a characteristic of capitalism?
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public ownership
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a conerstone of a socialist economic system
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oil revenues
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iraq's economy is heavily dependent on?
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World-system theorists argue that continous economic expansion on a global scale is
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capitalist-driven
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peripheral
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The vietnamese economy is very vulnerable of price fluxuations. For example, the country managed to become the third largest producer of coffee beans when prices were around $3.00 per pound only to see the price drop to less than 50 cents. The vulnerability explains why Vietnam is classified as a ____________ economy.
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Core
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economies that include the wealthiest, most highly diversified economies with strong stable governments.
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Iraq
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The worlds most heavily indebted country
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Odious
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debts that are the "personal" debts of a particular regime contracted without the consent of the people and spent in ways that are against their interests
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socialist
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the US can not be classified as?
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that generate or extract raw materials from the natural environment
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the primary sector of the economy includes economic activities
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delivering services
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"A strong tertiary sector" of the economy means that economic activity related to _____________ is very important.
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tertiary
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Most people in the US work in the _________ sector of the economy.
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an oligopoly
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In the US, three foreign-owned corporations control 90% of technical, medical, and scientific publishing. This situation describes?
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monopoly
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when a single producer dominates a market, a ________ exists.
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Power
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________ is the probability that an individual can acheive his or her will even against another individual's opposition.
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traditional
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A "chief, king, or queen" possesses power based on which form of authority?
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charismatic authority
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which kind of authority did MLK jr hold?
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Legal-rational
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authority rests on a system of impersonal rules that formally specify the qualifications for occupying a powerful position.
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fertility rate
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the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime
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selective forgetting
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some societies trace family lineage through the maternal or the paternal side only. This practice is known as?
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endogamy
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Sara marries someone of the same religion as herself. She has followed the norm of?
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Productive work
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the "means of existence, food, clothing, and shelter and tools" relates to?
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reproductive
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A husban, his wife and their 2-year-old son are travelling by plane. The husband is holding his screaming son. A male passenger turns around and remarks "Why doesnt the mother take care of the baby?" The passenger is conveying his belief that women do the ________ work.
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White, non Hispanic
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In the US, children classified as ___________ are most likely to live in secure parental employment households.
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endogamy
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At one time, before 1967, the US had laws prohibiting mrriages between people classified as white and black. Those laws enforced
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