SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intersectionality, Public Defender, Medicaid

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jennifer Flad

Document Summary

Terms: racism, set of attitudes/prejudice that is systematically applied to members of a group, overt racism, blatant; speech or refusal to associate, subtle racism, person to person, unconscious, set of mental categories. Social stratification: hierarchical differences not only in economic positions but in status, prestige, and power. Terms: social class- modern stratification, based on economic system, grants benefits to certain groups of people and barriers for others, social position ascribed at birth, what constitutes one"s social class, 1. Prestige: how one is viewed by others: wealth: total amount of person"s financial assets. It doesn"t matter how hard you work your ascribed status affects you: some people don"t have the same opportunities/resources to obtain. U. s. has higher crime rate than any other industrialized country: why, american culture emphasizes individual economic status, largest income gap in the world, private ownership of prisons.