SOCL 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersectionality, Sildenafil, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCL 1101
• Professor: Shelley Mc Donough Kimelberg

Document Summary

- human capital can explain a lot of inequality -- education, skills (general or workplace), time on the job. Look at formal vs informal deviance, and how deviance definition changes over time (sanctions, both informal and formal try to avoid deviance) Strain theory = a way to explain deviance -- merton -- society gives these goals for everyone in society, but not everyone has equal opportunity to achieve these goals (leads to deviance) Deviance theory = and *******people create/enforce laws that let people keep their top-power positions. What has happened to incarceration rates in the us over time? (skyrocketed to never-been-seen levels recently, doesn"t match trends) -- why. Stratification - how society decides who gets what, puts us in a hierarchy. Social mobility -- movement (or lack thereof) between classes: class vs. caste systems. Intragenerational mobility(mobility within the same person) vs intergenerational (mom is x, kids become y: structural mobility*********, exchange mobility**********