40 Cards in this Set
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social deviance
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any transgression of socially established norms (informal)
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crime
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the violation of laws enacted by society (formal)
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informal deviance
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minor violations like picking your nose (social deviance)
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formal deviance
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crime that results in state sanctioned punishments
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social control
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mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals; formally found in laws informally found in following rules of life
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Jane-Jacobs Neighborhood Watch
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"the eyes and ears of the neighborhood" in mixed use neighborhoods the thread of social control is implicitly woven into daily life
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Beckers Study
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"Becoming a Marihuana User" pretty much says offenders are not born; they are made
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Pagers Study
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studies effects of race & criminal records on employment: white men were more likely to get job w/ criminal record than black man w/ no record
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white collar crime
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offense committed by a professional against a corperation
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corporate crime
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a particular type of white collar crime committed by the officers of a corporation
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5 ideal types of social stratification
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estate system
caste system
class system
status hierarchy system
elite mass dichotomy
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petite bourgeousie
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self employed individuals
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bourgeoisie
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the capitalist class
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status markers
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occupation
cars
community
clothing
language
memberships
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Mills and Centralized Power
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1. economic institutions
2. political order
3. military order
-hurt democracy and wasn't beneficial
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how sociologist measure status?
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socioeconomic status: any measure that attempts to classify groups in terms of indicators like occupation, income, wealth and education
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terms for the poor
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$22,350 for a family of four
"nonworking poor"
working poor
underclass
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globalization
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trade across national boundaries
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estate tax
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"death tax" from the wealth passed on to family
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sex
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the biological differences between male & female
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sexuality
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desire, sexual preference, sexual identity and behavior
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gender
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a social position that the set of social arrangements that are built around normative sex categories
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ex. of sex and gender variance
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homosexual
intersex
transgender
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Pink-collar Jobs
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term for feminized jobs
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glass ceiling
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invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder
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glass escalator
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the promotional ride men take to the top of a work organizations, esp, in feminized jobs
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reasons for college infidelity
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1.college is for experimenting, cheating is age-linked, signal relationship is over
2. unforgivable betrayal
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racism
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the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
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how did the nazi's identify the Jews?
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unsuccessfully by measuring the ratios of forehead to nose size to face length but also forced them to wear yellow star of david
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miscegenation
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interracial marriage, meaning a mixing of kinds
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race
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externally imposed
involuntary
usually based off of physical difference
hierarchal
exclusive
equal
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ethinicity
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voluntary
self-defined
non-hierarchal
fluid and multiple
cultural
planar
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responses to oppression
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withdrawal
passing
acceptance
resistance
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mechanisms for creating ghettos
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white flight
government policies
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poverty
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a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances
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US povery
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very high
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president who fought poverty
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Lyndon Johnson
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meaning of "busted her digit"
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cashing a welfare check
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who benefits from moving out of the ghetto?
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those who moved had better employment situations and children improved on a number of indicators
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how gated communities relate to poverty?
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high levels of income and wealth inequality mix w/ economic segregation to create a noxious potion for the poor
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SOC 104: Exam 1