SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Poverty Threshold, Aid To Families With Dependent Children
Soc 101: Final Study Guide
Essay 11: Conventional Wisdom Tells us..You’ve Come a Long Way Baby
●Gender socialization: process by which individuals learn the culturally approved
expectations and behaviors for males and females
●Gender typing: gender-based expectations and behaviors
●Stereotypes: generalizations applied to all members of a group
●Self-fulfilling prophecy: a phenomenon whereby that which we believe to be true, in
some sense, becomes true for us
●Longitudinal data: data collected at multiple points in time
●Sex segregation: (in the work sphere) the separation of male and female workers by job
tasks or occupational categories
●Nontraditional female occupation: one in which women constitute 25% or less of total
employment
●Pay gap: the discrepancy between women’s and men’s earnings; a ratio calculated when
women’s earnings are divided by men’s earnings
●Gender scripts: the articulation of gender norms and biases
Essay 19: Conventional Wisdom Tells Us...Welfare is Ruining the Country
●Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC): a New Deal program created by the
Social Security Act of 1935 to provide federal assistance to needy dependent children;
replaced in the late 1990s by the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
Program
●TANF: A federal program created in 1996 by the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act to provide temporary assistance and work opportunities
to need families with children; also referred to as “welfare-to-work” program
●Poverty threshold: the federal government's designation of the annual income a family
requires to meet its basic needs
●Deep poverty: income levels below 50% of the federal poverty line
●TANF-to-poverty ratio: ratio of the number of families receiving TANF assistance to the
number of families in poverty
●Inverse relationship: one where the values of two variables move in opposite directions
●Working poor: individuals who have spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force but have
incomes below the poverty level
●Low-income family: one earning less than 200% of the poverty threshold
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●Poverty: an economic state or condition in which one’s annual income is below that
judged necessary to support a predetermined minimal standard of living
●Public assistance programs: programs directed exclusively at the eligible poor
●Deep poverty: income levels below 50% of the federal poverty line
●Social insurance programs: programs that require payroll contributions from the future
beneficiaries; neither program eligibility or benefits are linked to financial need
●Intergenerational upward mobility: social status gains by children via their parents
●Outgroup: group that is considered undesirable and is thought to hold values and beliefs
foreign to one’s own
●In Group: a group whose members possess a strong sense of identity and group loyalty
and hold their group in high esteem
●Social reproduction theory: the view that existing social, cultural, and economic
arrangements work to reproduce in future generations the social class divisions of the
present generation
●Structural functionalism: a theoretical approach that stresses social order and that views
society as a collection of interdependent parts that function together to produce consensus
and stability
●Social functions: intended and unintended social consequences of various behaviors and
practices
Essay 20: Conventional Wisdom Tells Us...Immigrants are Ruining This Nation
●Prejudice: a prejudgement directed toward members of certain social groups
●Immigrant groups: groups containing individuals who have left their homelands in
pursuit of a new life in a new country
●Illegal aliens: foreigners in the US without valid visas
●LPRs: Legal Permanent Residents
●Cultural value: a general sentiment regarding what is good or bad, right or wrong
●Assimilation: the process by which immigrant groups come to adopt the dominant culture
of their new homeland as their own
●Family household: household where one or more persons are related to the householder
by marriage, birth, or adoption
●Inverse relationship: one where variables move in opposite directions so that as the
values of one variable increase, the values of other decrease
●Multiculturalism: a perspective that accentuates rather than dilutes ethnic and racial
differences and embraces an ideology of equality
●Cultural capital: attributes, knowledge, or ways of thinking that can be converted or used
for economic advantage
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Document Summary
Essay 11: conventional wisdom tells usyou"ve come a long way baby. Gender socialization: process by which individuals learn the culturally approved expectations and behaviors for males and females. Stereotypes: generalizations applied to all members of a group. Self-fulfilling prophecy: a phenomenon whereby that which we believe to be true, in some sense, becomes true for us. Longitudinal data: data collected at multiple points in time. Sex segregation: (in the work sphere) the separation of male and female workers by job tasks or occupational categories. Nontraditional female occupation: one in which women constitute 25% or less of total employment. Pay gap: the discrepancy between women"s and men"s earnings; a ratio calculated when women"s earnings are divided by men"s earnings. Gender scripts: the articulation of gender norms and biases. Essay 19: conventional wisdom tells uswelfare is ruining the country. Aid to families with dependent children (afdc): a new deal program created by the.
