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Sociology
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A society's unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between two sexes is the
definition for
gender stratification
BLANK is a form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of
merit.
class
According to Weber, social class is composed of three components:
power, property, prestige
As a racial/ethnic group in the U.S., BLANK surpass whites in terms of income and wealth and are
known as a model minority.
Asians
According to Karl Marx, social stratification in a capitalistic society alway involve
class conflict
BLANK is biological physical distinctions that foster a socially developed identity.
Race
A type of social stratification based on individual achievement and is open so that people who
gain schooling and skills: social mobility
class system
The Davis-moore thesis asserts that social stratification has beneficial consequences for
the operation of a society. The Davis-Moore thesis
functionalist view
India is an example of what type of social stratification system ?
Caste
A condition of U.S. poverty in which most poor families are healed by women, known as:
Feminization of poverty
BLANK is having distinctive cultural characteristics.
Ethnicity
A theory of prejudice in which an individual or group s unfairly blamed for someone else's
troubles
Scapegoat
He coined the term power elite to describe the concentration of economic, political, and
social power the wealthiest have?
Mills
A change in one's position within the social hierarchy:
Social mobility
Which group owns the majority of the nations wealth?
the wealthiest Americans
The philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal:
Feminism
There is a group of individuals in America society for whom poverty persists year after year
and across generations, we call them:
the working class
A social theorist who contributed to the development of dependency theory by tracing the
growth of the capitalist world economy is
immanuel Wallerstein
A pattern of intergroup relations in which the dominant group tries to destroy the minority
group.
genocide
The group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status is called:
elite group
This issue became an issue of national importance that rewrote the rules for workplace
interaction and is the abuse of one's position of
sexual harassment
The process by which one national takes over another nation, usually for the purpose of
exploiting its labor and natural resources
colonialism
This stands as an important ideology supporting patriarchy. What term is the belief that men
are more superior to women
sexism
The total values of everything someone owns, minus the debts
wealth
Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on one's position in the means of
production is known as
class consciousness
According to Weber, BLANK is a large group of people who rank close to one another in property,
power, and prestige
social class
The bourgeoisie are known as capitalists, while the Proletariat are known as
Workers
Movement up or down the social ladder is :
social mobility
Beliefs that justify social arrangements; that things ought to be the way things are is called
:
ideology
The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one
application of:
the Thomas theorem