__________ is often hidden from sight and more difficult to prove.

__________ is a collection of people, distinguished by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics.

__________ refers to the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on the control over basic resources.

__________ is a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of real or arbitrary physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, or other subjectively selected attributes.

A study by Kathleen Gersen found that both men and women prefer an egalitarian marriage.  If that were not possible, what were the fallback preferences of these men and women?

John is a white 50-year-old lower middle class man who is married to Sue,  a 22-year-old African American upper class female. Their marriage is an example of:

__________________ makes a significant difference in perpetuating class inequalities because it gives some people an advantage over others by allowing them to start out with the benefit of extra resources in the form of inheritance.

_________ is defined as extreme prejudice directed at gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and others who are perceived as not being heterosexual.

In our everyday language, social stratification is often referred to as inequality.  In class I provided an acronym, OWIE, to describe the types of resources that are unequally distributed across society and lead to inequality.  OWIE stands for:

Class stratification is different than slavery and caste systems because a class based system of stratification is:

__________ is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group.

______________________ is the concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex.

While skin color variations are often used to signify essential and natural differences between racial groups (e.g. intelligence, superiority), these skin color variations:

When couples share a home and a bed without being legally married, they are practicing:

Race is:

Family as a social institution:

In sports, calling a player of color a derogatory name, participating in racist chanting during a sporting event, and writing racist graffiti in a team’s locker room are all forms of __________ racism.

From birth, parents act differently toward children on the basis of the child’s sex.  For example, parents tend to engage in more rough and tumble play with their boys and are more likely to perceive their female children as fragile.  The different perceptions and ways of treating and interacting with children on the basis of the child’s sex is what sociologists describe as.

Prejudice is a(n) _______________ whereas discrimination is a(n) ______________.

__________ refer(s) to an individual’s preference for emotional­-sexual relationships with members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality), the same sex (homosexuality), or both (bisexuality).

__________ is the movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another. This movement can be either upward or downward.

Both social scientists Karl Marx and Max Weber identified ___________ as an important determinant of social inequality and social change.

Race is:

Sociologist Max Weber’s term, __________, addresses how much access individuals have to important societal resources such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care, which can then impact their chances to experience upward mobility.

Race continues to be a significant and important aspect of life because:

Systems of stratification are characterized by different hierarchical structures and varying degrees of mobility. All of the following are systems of stratification EXCEPT:

Arlie Hochshield coined a term to describe the _____________________ of domestic labor (cleaning, caring for children, household chores) that women begin after a full day at work.

The biological and anatomical differences between females and males refers to ________________ differences.

__________ refer(s) to the culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs and practices associated with “femininity” and “masculinity.”

The Brady Bunch, which was comprised of parents with children from two previous relationships (e.g. woman with children from a previous marriage remarried to a man with children from a previous marriage), is an example of a(n):,,