Sociology Notes
Sociology Exam 3
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Affirmative Action
pos efforts to recruit minority grp mem/ women for jobs, promotions, edu opportunities; argued that discrimination will shift to Whites ex.: height/ residency requirements, testing differ w/ culture- sherpas: olf value independence, own homes/ good physical cond; fulani: old move to edge of homestead where ppl are buried, socially viewed as dead prejudice/ discrimination based on person's age -endogamy: restrictions of mate selection to ppl in same grp; reinforce cohesiveness of grp -exogamy: select mate outside certain grps (incest) -homogamy: tendency to select mate w/ personal characteristics similar to own -person flees/ asks gov for protection (Cubans exempted- can auto stay) -created by war, drought- gov chooses -patriarchy/ matriarchy: soc where men/ women dom decision making -equalitarian: spouses regarded as equal 1.UNEQUAL TREATMENT (created/ maintained by predjudice, suffer various disadvantages) 2. physical/ cultural traits: distinguish from dom grp (socially visible) 3. ascribed status 4. solidarity: feeling of in/ out grp intense 5. in grp marriage (endogamy): discourage marriage w/ outsiders/ dom society unwilling to marry inferior 6. sense of terriotoriality/ ethnocentrism 7. membership serve as master status -enjoy higher living standard than ever b/ fore -9% live below poverty line maintenance political, economic, and cultural domination over ppl by foreign power--extended period ex. Europe (sim to rel b/w capitalist/ proletariat (Marx)) use race neutrality to defend racially unequal status quo (pub welfare assistance, fin aid to college students, min closely rel to urban decay, poverty, welfare est w/ ppl that we feel will not judge us on ascribed statuses semi-periphery: countries w/ marginal eco status periphery: poor developing countries 1. voluntary migration: immigration-ppl coming in/ emigration- ppl leaving 2. involuntary migration: slaves 3. annexation: Hawii, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans 4.
1.
Affirmative Action
pos efforts to recruit minority grp mem/ women for jobs, promotions, edu opportunities; argued that discrimination will shift to Whites ex.: height/ residency requirements, testing differ w/ culture- sherpas: olf value independence, own homes/ good physical cond; fulani: old move to edge of homestead where ppl are buried, socially viewed as dead prejudice/ discrimination based on person's age -endogamy: restrictions of mate selection to ppl in same grp; reinforce cohesiveness of grp -exogamy: select mate outside certain grps (incest) -homogamy: tendency to select mate w/ personal characteristics similar to own -person flees/ asks gov for protection (Cubans exempted- can auto stay) -created by war, drought- gov chooses -patriarchy/ matriarchy: soc where men/ women dom decision making -equalitarian: spouses regarded as equal 1.UNEQUAL TREATMENT (created/ maintained by predjudice, suffer various disadvantages) 2. physical/ cultural traits: distinguish from dom grp (socially visible) 3. ascribed status 4. solidarity: feeling of in/ out grp intense 5. in grp marriage (endogamy): discourage marriage w/ outsiders/ dom society unwilling to marry inferior 6. sense of terriotoriality/ ethnocentrism 7. membership serve as master status -enjoy higher living standard than ever b/ fore -9% live below poverty line maintenance political, economic, and cultural domination over ppl by foreign power--extended period ex. Europe (sim to rel b/w capitalist/ proletariat (Marx)) use race neutrality to defend racially unequal status quo (pub welfare assistance, fin aid to college students, min closely rel to urban decay, poverty, welfare est w/ ppl that we feel will not judge us on ascribed statuses semi-periphery: countries w/ marginal eco status periphery: poor developing countries 1. voluntary migration: immigration-ppl coming in/ emigration- ppl leaving 2. involuntary migration: slaves 3. annexation: Hawii, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans 4.