SOCI 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: White Privilege, Scapegoating, Southern Baptist Convention

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Be prepared to identify and discuss the following: Macro level factors can shape the opportunity structure and distribution of resources) This causes the life expectancy to go down because people can"t maintain a healthy life. People cant afford medicine or the research cures. Individual lifestyle and class socialization: includes your attitudes, values, beliefs, behavior patterns, and other aspects of your place in the world, shaped by socialization: attitudes toward achievements- correlated with life chances, help create goals and achievements, religious. Membership- also correlates with social status variables of education, occupation, and income, upper class citizens (episcopalian, unitarian, Presbyterian, and jewish), lower class citizens(nazarene, southern baptist, Jehovah"s witness and other holiness and fundamentalist): political behavior, status lower class more likely to vote for the liberal side, economic conditions for government intervention. Higher class votes more for the conservative side. inconsistency- someone may experience a high status in on instance, but in another instance they can experience a lower status.