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Which strategy contributes to empowerment?
education, more you know the more power you ahve
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What are the kinds of power?
- Reward - ability to reward
- coercive - ability to punish
- legitimate - power due to obligation (boss)
- referent - power from respect
- expert - power due to more knowledge
- informative power - power based on a person's use of fact
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What is Hegemony based on?
italian marxist
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the queen of england's power is legitimate because?
authorized power
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All systems of stratification containw hich combinations of factors?
unequal distribution of resources
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Sociologists interested in systems of stratification would most likely focus on social factors?
they focus on class, race, and gender
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systems of stratification based on ascribed status typically encourage what type of social mobility?
no mobility
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systems of stratification based on acheived status typically encourage what type of social mobility?
social mobility
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what is the indian caste system based on?
unequal distribution of social honor or respect
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Which stratification s ystem accomplishes the LEAST inequality?
Democratic socialism
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A country which supports close government involvement of the economy, higher taxation, and generous social welfaire polocy is an example of what economic system?
socialist class system
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Some feminists argue that male domination of women is based in the system of capitalism. women play what role?
cheap labor
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Political participation in the US depends most heavily on which factors?
higher class people
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How has money been spent in american political campains?
towards self advertisement
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What percentage of the campaign contributions come from a small but powerful minority?
80%
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describe socialization
when people learn about their culture's norms, values, belifs and appropriate behaviors
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list agents of socialization
family, shcool, media, peer groups, the workplace, religion.
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what is the "hidden curriculum"?
hidden lessons of how children should act
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Which values are MOST likely to be taught to american children?
be quiet, atentive, obediance, respectful, pride and competition
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What is today's adolecents refered to as generation __?
generation m
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Who would likely be the most important socializing agents in a new work envirotment?
coworkers
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What kind of institution expects complience to strict rules without complaint?
total institution ( jail)
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What are rituals that often require children to suffer painful procedures?
rites of passage
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which stage in life course is filled with contradictions that exist between culture and bio?
adolescence
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how is the life course-sequence sequence different for men and women?
- men= work, marry, children, divorce, unemployment (fixed)
- women= more diverse
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Which stage of the life-course is challenging due to the U.S. cultural emphasis on youth?
aging and retirement
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what is it called when biology is thought to influence human behavior?
biological determinism
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How do genes and the social enviroment relate to one another?
- they are in direct correlation
- same gene and hieght example
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symbolic interactionists would be interested in studying what aspect of education?
learning through looking at how the world perceives you
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What allows people to communicate?
the brain
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what are the societal consequences of stereotypes?
can cause a false sense of reality
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3 step process where individuals go through as they construct reality
- externalization
- objectivation
- internalization
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what is it called when roles of statuses and individual occupies clash with one another?
role conflict
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when the responsibilities or expectations of a single status compete with one another, what occurs?
role strain
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What perspective is it when a sociologist studies social interaction using metaphors of theatres?
dramaturgy
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what ist he goal of impression management?
to control the image people have of you during a performance
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what type of social contract occurs between people who are similer of gener, age, and race?
homophily
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What is an example of a homophily
a friendship
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what is a social group?
a group of people who know eachother's social statuses.
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what is a reference group?
a group we compare ourselves.
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why do organizations as they grow larger tend to become formalized?
informal structures become adequate?
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