Sociology final exam preperation

SOCI2010, Fall 2015, Review Sheet for Exam #4

*This is an outline, so be sure to understand the meanings of the words and ideas listed below.

FROM LECTURE NOTES:

Race and Ethnic Inequality: -definition of race; understanding of race as a social construction

-definition of an ethnic group

-ethnic identity -United States racial and ethnic classification systems

-minority group (definition, 5 characteristics)

-prejudice (definition, and definition of stereotyping)

-definition of discrimination (typology of prejudice and discrimination-4 types)

Gender Inequality:

-definitions of sex and gender -gender socialization and gender scripts

-agents of gender socialization (and the ways in which each agent teaches appropriate gender roles)

-gender stereotyping -definition of gender stratification and the gender gap

-the pay gap (general patterns of gender gap in pay by age, by race/ethnicity, by occupation, by state)

-4 main explanations of income inequalities (and meaning of glass ceiling and glass escalator)

FROM TEXTBOOK (Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11)

*rely on your readings to help clarify/elaborate on lecture information

Things NOT covered in lecture that you will need to know:

Chapter 9:

-definitions and meanings of institutional discrimination and individual discrimination

Chapter 10:

-definition of comparable worth

Chapter 11:

-definitions of family, family of orientation, family of procreation

-functionalist perspective on the family (4 key functions of the family)

-conflict perspective on the family -symbolic interactionist perspective on the family

-*for all three perspectives, pay attention to the “concept quick review” on p.319

-dual-earner marriages and the second shift -divorce rate in 1900, 1981, and 2009

-categories where there is a decreased risk of divorce (6 of them on page 332)

-definition of blended families