SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conspicuous Consumption, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget

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Agents of socialization: individuals, groups, and social institutions that together help people to become functioning members of society. Birth cohort: all of the people who are born during a given period of time and therefore experience historical events at the same points in their lives. Blaming the system: a perspective that holds that systemic discrimination exists within the social system. Blaming the victim: a perspective holds individuals responsible for the negative conditions in which they live. Class structure: a society"s economic hierarchy that categorizes groups of people based in their socio-economic status. Chilly climate: the lack of warmth of encouragement that girls and women feel in school as a result of sexism. Classism: an ideology that suggest that people"s relative worth is at least partly determined by their social and economic status. Conspicuous consumption: the purchase of expensive goods simply because they are valuable, not because there is any innate satisfaction in them.