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| Social Stratification (Stratification Theory) |
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| Assumes that an individuals in society are layered or arranged in strata. According to the stratification theorists, there are three quite distinct dimensions of the stratification system: class, status, and power. |
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| The study of monstocities in nature. More specifically according to feral children meaning that you cannot approarch a feral child as you would a normal child, or expect anything that you do to a feral child to result in the same conclusion if you were to do the same thing to a regular child. |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| A means of preparing for a role that the person might use in the future. |
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| The social learning process that involves deliberate and sometimes systematic efforts to change an aspect of what was previously learned. There are two ways this can be done;voluntary, meaning you chose for such a thing to occur, and compulsory, meaning that you make possibly the initial choice but then will be forced to change further along while you take on a new role. |
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| based largely on income, a category of people who share similar economic characteristics. The relationship between different classes is usually understood in terms of a layering situation in which one class has more income and is placed higher in a hierarchy while another class has less income and is ranked lower. There is no implied antagonistic relationship between and among classes. |
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Rigid, Formal, born into, law enforced.
Ex:Royalty |
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| Slave or Not-Slave, or an array of levels. Ex:India |
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Cannot be legally separate people, wealth is what carries the weight and power.
Ex:Canada |
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| Objective Class Society Approach |
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| Look at the facts of the case. |
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| Subjective Class Society Approach |
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| Opinions, beliefs, myth, positions, and how it influences itself. |
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| Everything serves a purpose, order occurs when everyone agrees. |
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| Everything is always changing, the only reason people are in power is because the weaker were oppressed in some fashion. |
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| The elite rule and only more elite will fill their positions, meaning the poor will usually stay poor. |
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| Six lessons learned from extreme cases of isolation |
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| Nurturing Environment, Socialized, close-human contact, acquisition of language, Critical period to obtain language (6 to 7 yrs), imitation of people. |
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| Major flaws of Biological determinism |
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| Using information gathered from animals and applying it to people, selective use of information, invention of data, misapplication/misinterpretation of data collected from IQ tests, The idea that correlation is causation meaning that if you see a pattern in an experiment that you can assume a conclusion without scientifically attempting to find the cause of your results. |
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| Five fallacies with use of genes |
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| genes determine behavior, genes determine our developmental limits, hereditability equals unchangeability, heredity within a population explains difference between populations, failure to understand socialization |
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| What is happening to the distribution of wealth in Canada? |
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| The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger. |
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| Information that must be remember when interpreting poverty figures |
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| Official figures tend to under estimate the real extent of poverty. You must take into account the near poor as if they were poor because many people who are close to being official poor live with many of the same struggles as the poor. You must understand that about a third to half of people who are considered poor are extremely lower than the basic poor. You must take into account that there are chronic poor and temporary poor, meaning some people might be poor for only a temporary period of time only to rebound. Children under 6 and women have a higher risk of poverty than the general public. |
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| Someone who occupies a role that has to do with the imposition of restraint on individual and/or collective behaviour, and is charged with motivating others to adhere to traditions and patterns of behavior important to social stability and continuity. (cops, judges) |
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| The institution, groups, organizations, sources, social situations, and locations within which we are socialized. Agents of socialization include statuses in institutions as well as social and cultural settings in which we learn certain ways of actiong and behaving. |
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| Social actions and behaviors that violate commonly acceptable, dominant, or mainstream values, norms, folkways, and mores. Sociologists will, depending on the theorectical orientation they adopt, explain and interpret deviance and deviant behavior very differently. |
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| (In term of Deviance) Parson views that people who are not properly socialize might: |
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| withdraw from social interaction, evade fulfillment of expectations, rebel openly refusing to conform. |
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| Merton views that deviance comes out of: |
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| people trying to attain major goals that they might not have the social tools or right to complete these tasks and will attempt to still complete these goals in different ways than normally practiced. Also you must know that these flaws are not created by the person, but occur because of a flaw in the system. |
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| Accept the goals and the means of optaining them (non-deviant behavior) |
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| Accept the goals but use deviant or new means to reach said goals. |
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| Give up on goals but continue living with behaviors that are accepted. |
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| Give up on goals and tradition behaviors, leave society all together |
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| Give up on traditional goals and behaviors but invent your own set of goals and behavior in the process |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| The process of learning values, norms, behaviors and rules of conduct in anticipation or in advance of some situation when you might need them. |
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| A social learning process that involves efforts to change an aspect of what we previously learned. |
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| The ability to understand ourselves in particular, and human behavior in general |
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| A position within a institution, group, or organization, does not necessarily imply a hierarchy or ranking of position |
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| A type of norm that represents "must" rules that tend to be strictly enforced and which may be deemed to have moral significance. |
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| The process by which behavior, actions, and interactions become routinized, regularized, organized, and structured into on going patterns. |
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| In Marxian theory, the difference between the total costs of producing a commodity and the amount of capital gained from the selling of said product. |
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| The basic social learning that typically occurs during the first few years of life. |
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| A set of culturally defined behaviors that are appropriate and expected or inappropriate and unacceptable for a given status. |
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| Cultural and historical personality and behavioral characteristics with female and male sexual differences. |
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| A mode of thought or reasoning that moves from the specific or particular to the general |
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| Learning that involves the association of consequence, a reward or punishment, with some behavior. |
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| The idea that social life is conceived of as governed by laws of competition and conflict, with natural selection leading to the survival of the fittest and the elimination of the weak. |
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| A person's position in a particular institution. |
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| Process by which capitalist class appropriates wealth produced by the working class. |
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| Children who have survived a degree of social isolation |
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| Refers to some biological differences between females and males. |
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| Instances of conflict between two or more of the roles in a role set. |
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| Mechanisms, agencies, and practices through which conformity to social accepted values, norms, and beliefs are enforced. |
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| The total lifeway of the people |
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| An impulse to action produced by a need. The basis of a drive is an organic condition or state. In sociology, we assume most drives are directed by an organism's life-sustaining tendencies. |
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| A complex behavioral pattern that is unlearned, genetically transmitted, invariant among members of a species, and manifested the first time a triggering mechanism is present. |
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| A complex behavioral pattern that is unlearned, genetically transmitted, invariant among members of a species, and manifested the first time a triggering mechanism is present. |
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| Learning that involves the association or substitution of a new behavior or response with a stimulus. |
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| Represents our basic instinctual biological being and its behavioral tendencies, which mostly involve fantasies about reducing tension. |
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| The dimension of our being that impels us to direct action in order to reduce various tensions, without, however, moral or ethical guidelines. |
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| Represents the internalization of the social and moral controls that we have developed to facilitate an ongoing civilized social existence. |
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| Caught in 1800, France, raised in the wild, resocialized by Jean Itard. Itard believed that Victor was socially defective and could have been raised to be a normal boy. |
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| Found November 1970 at the age of 13 in Los Angeles. Father beat her with her brother and was kept in a room secluded from the world. She would be tied to a potty chair or in a crib with wire mesh. She was later able to pick a very limited language and started to resocialize, but was later but into an a home for the mentally ill after the testing was completed. |
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| Something gained from family that can be objectively seen, such as private school or wealth. |
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| Something that is inherited from parents or guardians, usually who have passed away. |
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| social gains that are not income based, usually social power that can be used to further someone in some way. |
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