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Anthropology
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Study of Pre-Industrial Societies
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Sociology
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studies Post Industrial Societies
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Psychology
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studies Individual Actions and Thoughts
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All statesments in Soc are merely the opinions of the instructor or author and there is no objective truth?
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FALSE
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Sociology is a mixture of
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Objective, subjective, opinion and fact
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Differentiation
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having differences in a culture with no hierarchy of greater or lesser (value).
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Stratifaction
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Having differences with values that create a hierarchy of greater or lesser.
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Why is right now a unique time to study stratification and inequality in the context of the U.S.?
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Because the U.S. has had a massive redistribution of wealth in the last 30 years.
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Sociology is a mixture of the objective and the subjective so it's ok to invent facts?
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FALSE
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"All societies are stratified"
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FALSE
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Paleolithic Society
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very healthy, well nourished, always moving, no surplus
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Neolithic Society
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Sedentary (stay in one place), overpopulated + Surplus of food = Stratified, infectious disease spreads
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In comparison of Neolithic and Paleolithic Societies it is argues that
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warfare and stratification aren't part of human nature
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Race=
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Grouping large numbers of humans together because of perceived similarities in such characteristics as eye shape hair type skin color and body build. In larger society this definition usually assumes that there is a biological relationship that is reflected in this grouping
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Race is determined
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Socially and historically NOT biologically or Evolutionary
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The distance of the overlap btwn the two bell curves of intelligence for two seperate races
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isn't significant and disprove the biology of race
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Race is the ideology of
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Western European imperialism
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The Film Race the Power of An Illusion there is a diff of opinion btwen social scientists and natural scientists or in other words the sociologists disagree with the microbiologists and evolutionary scientists on whether race exists or not?
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FALSE
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Columbus was
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LAME
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what methods did columbus use interacting with indigenous people of hispanola
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Mutilation and cutting off hands, mass murder, dogs that attacked humans and killed them, and burning people alive
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The Real accomplishment of Columbus was
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Beginning the modern world system
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World System Theory
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Argues that he world system operates in such a way that resources, labor, wealth and value flow from Third world to first.
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Structure of Social Stratification
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Involves the distribution of resources in the society
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Life Chances
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The ability to share in the available goods and services
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The 3 Systems of domination that characterize Modern Society
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1) Gender
2) Race 3) Class |
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Ascription
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Privileges inherited, born with/into, not from performance
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Achievement
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Performance Based, earned
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Marxian Theory
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Was Structuralist, Class Conflict, Emphasized Power, Theme of the degree of opportunity built into the social structure
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Max Weber
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Views concerning personal values and sociological analysis that sociological research should be value Free
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-> Weber felt...
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felt that sociology when done carefully and without the interference of personal values could be useful for political decision making
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Kingsley Davis and WIlbert Moore
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-argued that stratification was functional for society
-moved the study of stratification from a dynamic study to a static justification of the present situation in society |
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Ralf Dahrendorf
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introduced the importance of class struggle in the U.S. to the study of stratification
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Gerhard Lenski
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emphasized the level of technological development in society
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Ethnic Group
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Distinctive Social and Cultural Characteristics
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There have been no imporoments in the situation of minorities with regard to civil rights and discrimination
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FALSE
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Infant Mortality
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Asians<Whites<African Americans
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Anomie
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The lack of connection btwn cultural values and legitimate means to achieve them. The relationship btwn dominant social values (success) and legitimate means to achieve them are disconnected
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Results of Living in a Anomie context without those who can't afford to
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Sexual acting out, Crime/Drug Use, Violence
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White Privilege
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Most white people dont have to think about race everyday but most black people do
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Methods to restrict choices of housing for minorities
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Restrictive covenants. white violence. denial of home loans even when eligible
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Institutionalized discrimination
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Unequal treatment of different races and ethnicities that is embedded in the social structure
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Affirmative Action
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White people are the one group that has benefitted consistently historically
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Occupational Mobility
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is difficult for the children of minorities
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"sundown towns"
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communities where African Americans are not allowed to live
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Rate of Poverty according to racial group
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has stayed the same for 30 years
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