SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 3 FINAL EXAM BREWSTER
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1. Homophobia: the fear and hatred of homosexuality
2. minority group: a group of people who may be subject to differential
and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, or other
characteristics
3. Ethnicity: The attribution of characteristics to groups of people who
share a common cultural (including religious) heritage
4. Race: a group of people who share physical characteristics that are
passed on through reproduction
5. Assimilation: the process of a dominant group absorbing minority
groups/the process of conforming to the dominant group's culture
6. sex: One's biological characteristics (anatomy, hormones, etc.)
7. social stratification: The hierarchical ranking of people who have
different access to valued resources
8. conflict theory prespective: People create and reinforce stratification
9. wealth: salary contributes to
10. pluralism: In the "dominant-minority group relations" continuum, ____
is highest on both tolerance and equality
11. Racism: a set of beliefs which claim that one's own racial group is
"naturally" superior to other groups
12. Ethnocentrism: a belief that one's own culture, society, or group is
inherently superior to others
13. Gender: based on social and cultural expectations, not on physical
traits
14. Achieved: lecture: not a way in which sexual orientation is socially
constructed
15. discrimination: Pam was inviting children to her daughter's birthday
party. She invited all of her neighbors, except the new family, the Chos,
who recently moved from South Korea. By not inviting the Cho family,
Pam exhibited
16. 4%: About ____ of Americans identify themselves as homosexual
17. White Collar: jobs classified based on analytic labor, primarily
doctors, lawyers, and business managers
18. Education, Family, Peers: social institutions that influence the
construction of gender
19. feminism's first emergance in the us: In connection with abolitionism
and attempts to end slavery during the 1830s
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1. Homophobia: the fear and hatred of homosexuality
2. minority group: a group of people who may be subject to differential
and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, or other
characteristics
3. Ethnicity: The attribution of characteristics to groups of people who
share a common cultural (including religious) heritage
4. Race: a group of people who share physical characteristics that are
passed on through reproduction
5. Assimilation: the process of a dominant group absorbing minority
groups/the process of conforming to the dominant group's culture
6. sex: One's biological characteristics (anatomy, hormones, etc.)
7. social stratification: The hierarchical ranking of people who have
different access to valued resources
8. conflict theory prespective: People create and reinforce stratification
9. wealth: salary contributes to
10. pluralism: In the "dominant-minority group relations" continuum, ____
is highest on both tolerance and equality
11. Racism: a set of beliefs which claim that one's own racial group is
"naturally" superior to other groups
12. Ethnocentrism: a belief that one's own culture, society, or group is
inherently superior to others
13. Gender: based on social and cultural expectations, not on physical
traits
14. Achieved: lecture: not a way in which sexual orientation is socially
constructed
15. discrimination: Pam was inviting children to her daughter's birthday
party. She invited all of her neighbors, except the new family, the Chos,
who recently moved from South Korea. By not inviting the Cho family,
Pam exhibited
16. 4%: About ____ of Americans identify themselves as homosexual
17. White Collar: jobs classified based on analytic labor, primarily
doctors, lawyers, and business managers
18. Education, Family, Peers: social institutions that influence the
construction of gender
19. feminism's first emergance in the us: In connection with abolitionism
and attempts to end slavery during the 1830s
