-
What is social stratification?
structured inequality between groups- unequal rewards and opportunities
-
How do sociologists measure the degree of stratification in a given society?
property, power, and prestige
-
What are the principal processes that sociologists argue are at work in stratifying members of societies?
-
What are the reprecussions of inequality?
- US high the highest poverty rate among OECD countries
- Overall wage decline
- Growing Child Poverty
- Diminishing cultural and political support for equal opportunity measures
-
What is cultural capital?
Tastes, knowledge, attitudes, language, and ways of thinking that we exchange with others
Offers control over economic and social resources as a form of exclusion
-
Explain the dependency and world system theory.
Industrialized countries and their corporations dominate the core of the system, hence exploiting peripheral countries
-
Describe the modernization theory
contact with modernized countries should promote modernization in less developed countries
-
What is the paradox of race
race is social and not biological
-
What is racialization?
process by with certain bodily features are used systematically to mark certain persons for differential status or treatment
-
residential segregation
refers to the physical separation of cultural groups based on residence and housing
-
structural racism
Structural Racism in the U.S. is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics – historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal – that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color
-
what are some of the institutional mechanisms that create and perpetuate structural racism?
schools, mass media
-
ageism
reflects a prejudice in society against older adults.
-
What is the purpose of economy?
system in which goods and services are produced, distributed and consumed.
-
What is the purpose of politics?
controls important decisions of who get what, when and how
|
|
