SYG 2000 Final Exam Review
Questions And Answers
the bourgeoisie - -people who employed the workers
- social safety net - -a patchwork of programs intended to ensure that the
most economically vulnerable do not go without basic necessities like food,
clothing, and shelter.
- the proletariat - -people employed by others who worked for a wage
- racism - -a term that refers to a society's production of unjust outcomes
for some racial or ethnic groups
- residential segregation - -the sorting of different types of people into
separate neighborhoods
- white flight - -a phenomenon in which white people started leaving a
neighborhood when minority residents begin to move in
- sexism - -the production of unjust outcomes for people perceived to be
biologically female
- the second shift - -the unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that
faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs
- ideal worker norm - -the idea that an employee should devote themselves
to their job wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities
- individualism - -the idea that people are independent actors responsible
primarily for themselves
- elite theory of power - -the idea that a small group of networked
individuals controls the most powerful positions in our social institutions
- social capital - -the number of people we know and the resources they can
offer us
- global capitalism - -the current transnational phase of capitalism,
characterized by global markets, production, finances
- hypersegregation - -residential segregation so extreme that many
people's daily lives involve little or no contact with people of other races
Questions And Answers
the bourgeoisie - -people who employed the workers
- social safety net - -a patchwork of programs intended to ensure that the
most economically vulnerable do not go without basic necessities like food,
clothing, and shelter.
- the proletariat - -people employed by others who worked for a wage
- racism - -a term that refers to a society's production of unjust outcomes
for some racial or ethnic groups
- residential segregation - -the sorting of different types of people into
separate neighborhoods
- white flight - -a phenomenon in which white people started leaving a
neighborhood when minority residents begin to move in
- sexism - -the production of unjust outcomes for people perceived to be
biologically female
- the second shift - -the unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that
faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs
- ideal worker norm - -the idea that an employee should devote themselves
to their job wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities
- individualism - -the idea that people are independent actors responsible
primarily for themselves
- elite theory of power - -the idea that a small group of networked
individuals controls the most powerful positions in our social institutions
- social capital - -the number of people we know and the resources they can
offer us
- global capitalism - -the current transnational phase of capitalism,
characterized by global markets, production, finances
- hypersegregation - -residential segregation so extreme that many
people's daily lives involve little or no contact with people of other races
