SOCI-100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heterosexism, Nuclear Family, Social Stratification
Document Summary
Unequal distribution of resources for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. Sex/gender, poverty, wealth (income, real estate, savings, stocks, bonds, investments), Socially sanctioned patterns (or classes) of social inequality that exist in society (based on attributes such as race, age, gender, income, occupation, status, power): class system: A hierarchical system of stratification based on achieved and ascribed economic measures such as income, education, occupation, wealth. Social class: model of social stratification where people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories (upper, middle, lower social classes) Sex: biology (men/ women, boy/girl: gender the psychological sense of being male, female, or transgender. Culturally/socially constructed differences related to social roles (masculine/feminine) Gender identity: how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. Sexual orientation emotional, romantic or sexual attraction: being of a certain sex has implications for our educational, occupational, economic, and family experiences, heterosexism.
