the differences between migration, emigration, and immigration - ️️Emigrate means
to leave one's country to live in another.
Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.
Migrate is to move, like birds in the winter. "Transfer of a population"
Alternatives to social researc...
Sociology 269 WWU Exam 1
the differences between migration, emigration, and immigration - ✔️✔️Emigrate means
to leave one's country to live in another.
Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.
Migrate is to move, like birds in the winter. "Transfer of a population"
Alternatives to social research? - ✔️✔️Authority (can look to who is in charge for how
the world works, ex. child named Hitler)
Tradition (Women are naturally nurturers is really just and opinion influenced by
tradition)
Common Sense (Homeless people should just 'get jobs')
Media Myths (Cosby show didn't talk about race, lead whites to believe racism is over)
Personal experience (seeing black people be lazy supports your own racist opinions)
What is sociology? - ✔️✔️Scientific study of human relationships and patterns of
behavior.
Theoretical frameworks, collection methods, and empirical examination produce
knowledge about the world
Tries to uncover social forces that influence behaviors
sociologists study what goes on between people in modern industrial societies and
institutions
difference between sociologists and historians - ✔️✔️historians looks at history and
don't predict, sociologists see patterns
Ethnic paradox - ✔️✔️The maintenance of one's ethnic ties in a way that can assist
with assimilation in larger society.
define glass ceiling - ✔️✔️The barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified worker
because of gender or minority membership.
glass wall - ✔️✔️A barrier to moving laterally in a business to positions that are more
likely to lead to upward mobility.
glass escalator - ✔️✔️The male advantage experienced in occupations dominated by
women.
relative deprivation - ✔️✔️The conscious experience of a negative discrepancy
between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
, define hate crime - ✔️✔️Criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias
against a race, religion, ethnic or national origin group, or sexual orientation group.
reverse discrimination - ✔️✔️Actions that cause better-qualified White men to be
passed over for women and minority men.
define income - ✔️✔️Salaries, wages, and other money received.
define wealth - ✔️✔️An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets,
including land and other types of property.
absolute deprivation - ✔️✔️The minimum level of subsistence below which families or
individuals should not be expected to exist.
define racial formation - ✔️✔️A sociohistorical process by which racial categories are
created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed.
define segmented assimilation - ✔️✔️The outcome of immigrants and their
descendants moving in to different classes of the host society.
define marginality - ✔️✔️The status of being between two cultures at the same time,
such as the status of Jewish immigrants in the United States.
panethnicity - ✔️✔️The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups as
reflected in the terms Hispanic and Asian American.
What were the 6 factors that lead to Obamas victory - ✔️✔️1. "a perfect storm" --
people had to drop out, gave key note speech at 2004 dnc, Iowa, people ready for
change
2. many White bigots actually voted for Obama
3. two logical fallacies underlie the post-racism contention.
4. racist attitudes and actions repeatedly erupted during both the primary and final
campaigns.
5. in many southern states, the White vote for Obama significantly
shrunk from the 2000 and 2004 Democratic Party totals, and the elderly White
Democratic vote throughout the nation similarly declined.
6. the increases in both voter registration and turnout of young, minority, and
independent voters were critical.
ecological fallacy - ✔️✔️Draws conclusions about individuals from macro-level data
alone!. It is a fallacy
because macro-units are too broad to determine individual data, and individuals have
unique properties that cannot be directly inferred from just macro data.
ex. television's talking heads often are confused by the fact that rich states tend to
support Democrats while poor states tend to support
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