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Study Guide (Exam 2) The exam covers materials from lectures. Chapter 6 Social Control and Deviance  What is deviance? What is crime? The similarities and differences between them.  The social construction of deviance. How relative is deviance?  Functionalist views about deviance and Merton’s strain theory.  Symbolic interactionist theories: Labeling theory, Stigma, Broken windows theory  Formal and informal social sanctions  The difference between street crime and white-collar crime (corporate crime).  Who gets punished and for what? What is recidivism? Chapter 7 Stratification  Definition and Characteristics of Stratification  Views of inequality: Rousseau, Ferguson and Millar, Davis-Moore thesis.  Equality of opportunity and equality of condition.  Forms of stratification: slavery, estate, caste, class (Marx and Weber’s views on class)  What is socioeconomic status (SES)? The difference between income and wealth?  How is America stratified today? The upper class, middle class, the poor.  Social mobility: horizontal, vertical, structure, status attainment model. Chapter 8 Gender  Definitions of sex, gender, and sexuality.  Sex: a process in the making (including views about essentialism and social constructionism).  Gender: what does it take to be feminine or masculine?  How different theories explain the woman question: Parson’s sex role, conflict, black feminism, postmodern, “doing gender”.  Inequality at work (including “Three reasons explaining gender pay gap”).  Glass ceilings, glass escalators. Chapter 9: Race  What is race? What are some of the myths of race? What is racism?  Evidence showing the social construction of race.  Social Darwinism, eugenics.  Race versus ethnicity  Minority-majority group relations: assimilation, pluralism, segregation, racial conflict.  Group responses to domination: withdrawal, passing, acceptance, and resistance.  Prejudice, discrimination, Merton’s chart, and the colorblind racism.  What is institutional racism?  The future of race.

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