Flashcard: Understanding Social Inequality and Gender Roles — 24 carte

Functionalism — inequality justification?

Necessary for role allocation and social stability.

Davis & Moore — role?

Argued stratification ensures the most qualified fill important roles.

Meritocracy — definition?

System rewarding talent and effort, promoting social mobility.

Stratification — purpose?

Hierarchical arrangement motivating individuals and maintaining order.

Sacrifice for training — role?

Encourages effort to attain higher-status roles.

New Right — key concept?

Welfare dependency creates underclass; emphasizes individual responsibility.

Underclass — effect?

Cycle of poverty due to welfare reliance, per Murray.

Free market efficiency — advocate?

Friedman; markets maximize resource allocation.

Cycle of poverty — cause?

Welfare dependency and limited social mobility.

Marxist — bourgeoisie?

Owners of production who exploit workers.

Proletariat — definition?

Working class selling labor for wages.

Surplus value — meaning?

Value produced beyond wages, exploited by capitalists.

Ideological State Apparatus — role?

Reproduces class inequality via education/media.

Hegemony — concept?

Ruling ideas accepted as common sense.

Weberian class — basis?

Economic market position affecting life chances.

Status — influence?

Social honor and prestige, often separate from class.

Party — role?

Political power influencing social position.

Gender — functionalist view?

Roles stabilize society; men as breadwinners, women as caregivers.

Warm bath theory — purpose?

Family provides emotional support, stabilizing male workers.

Human capital theory — explanation?

Women choose lower-paid jobs due to childcare responsibilities.

Radical feminism — focus?

Dismantling patriarchy to achieve equality.

Intersectionality — concept?

Multiple inequalities (gender, race, class) intersecting.

Weberian gender — segregation?

Horizontal: job types; Vertical: hierarchy barriers like glass ceiling.

Age — Parsons’ view?

Transition stage preparing for adult roles.