Sociology Test 2
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42 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Balance theory | Strive for balance & consistency in our lives, social relationship, attitudes, & behaviors. |
| Power | The ability to get someone to do something you want them to do |
| Power Sources | -Use of Force -Control over resources -Control over people |
| Authority | Legitimate right to tell someone what to do. (Legitimate of Power) |
| Traditional authority | Based on longstanding ways of doing things. Done for centuries |
| Charismatic authority | Based on exceptional personal qualities of the leader. |
| Rational-legal authority | Based on formal legal documents, written laws/ specify how leader is chosen, how long they hold position |
| Expert authority | Based on specialized knowledge. |
| The norm of reciprocity | States that when we get something from someone else that creates a responsibility to give something back. |
| Lawrence v Texas | Convicted of crimes against nature. |
| Origen | Most prominent Christian leader. Got castrated so he wouldn't feel the sexual urge. |
| Deviance | is any act that will evoke social sanctions where people show their disapproval. (what someone does) |
| Deviance sanctions | Internalization of norms Gossip & social approbation Economic sanctions Legal sanctions |
| Emile Durkheim | Noted 2 things: -Every society has deviance -Deviance performs some function for society |
| Stigma | use term now to describe any characteristics that if it is known about it will cause that person to be devalued in eyes of dominant society |
| Physical blemishes | describe something wrong with a person's body. (AIDS) |
| Moral blemishes | problem with person's moral character (criminal, prostitutes, AIDS) |
| Tribal blemishes | result to belonging to devalued group in society. by race or ethnicity, social class, by sex. |
| The Medicalization of Deviance | Refers to attempts to find biological/psychatric cause for all unwanted behavior. |
| Passing | Hiding your stigma so other people don't think you have it. Pass self as ordinary person |
| Covering | Admitting the stigma wither explicitly or implicitly. Engaging in some strategy to make stigma less intrusive in social interaction. |
| The "OWN" | other people who have that stigma/anyone you could be talking about. |
| The "Straights" | people in society who do not have that specific stigma. |
| The "WISE" | people who know someone has a stigma but instead of treating em differently, they accept them & treat em normal. |
| Karl Marx Idea of Social Class | People can become wealthy/poweful -Status -Prestige |
| Socioeconomic Status (SES) | 1. Income 2.Educational credentials 3. Occupational prestige |
| C. Wright Mills The Power Elite | Certain individuals coming from overlapping social circles at the very top of America society where retrained from birth in the knowledge that some day they will be making decisions that effect millions of people |
| Human Capital | is what our position is based off of. Describes indiv resources that a person brings to a job. |
| Social capital | is made up of our social categories and the social groups we belong to. m or f/ religion/ social networks |
| Cultural capital | Include cultural knowledge/artifacts that we consume |
| High Brow Culture | Only wealthy people take part: -opera -ballet -polo |
| Low Brow Culture | Entertainment for the masses: -hollywood movies -popular genre of music |
| Race-(folk definition) | A category of people treated as distinct based on physical characteristics to which social importance has been assigned. |
| Race-(biology definition) | Interbreeding population with genetic characteristics that differ from other populations. |
| Megroid | very dark skin |
| Mongolad | brown/copper skin |
| William Julius Wilson | Many problems we perceive as race problems in this country are really not race problems; instead they are social problems. |
| Morris Rosenberg Conceiving the Self | Gave self esteem tests. |
| Sex | Biological makeup; role in reproduction |
| Gender | Expected behaviors & dispositions |
| Sandra Bam 3 Lenses of Gender | Biological Essentialism Androcentrism Gender polarization |
| Courtesy stigma | give person stigma bcuz of close association with other people who do have stigma (family members of criminals) |
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