Sociology – study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society

Sociological imagination – insight offered by sociology

Discrimination – unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people

Stereotype – widely held but fixed oversimplified image or idea of certain people

Sociological research – study of people using methods such as interviews, surveys, focus groups

Quantitively – measuring something based on size, not quality

Qualitative – method of gathering non numerical data

Institutional review board – administration that protects rights and welfare of human subjects

Socialization – activity of mixing socially with others

Culture – arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievements

Ethnocentrisms – evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standard of customs of ones own culture

Social structure – individuals and organizations

Social hierarchy – group of people grouped together based on income, wealth, social status, wealth power

Intergenerational mobility – change in social status between different generations, same family

Social stratification – class of people grouped together based on how much power they have

Social mobility – movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories

Meritocracy – government or holding of power by people based on their ability

Feminiziation of poverty – widening gap between women and men caught in sequence of economic deprivation and scarcity

Power and dominate culture – when multiple cultures are present

Privilege – special right, advantage, or immunity guard granted to certain people

Demography – statistics such as birth, deaths, income

Institution - a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose.

Mainstream culture – culture held within  large amount of people

Subculture - a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.

Cultural relativism – judging someone elses culture, based on your culture

One drop rule – one single drop of “black blood” makes you black?

Racial stratisfication – process by which laws are created

Transgender - denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.

Transsexual - a person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex.

Gender differences - product of the evolutionary process of sexual selection

Migration - seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.

Emigration – leaving country

Immigration – entering country

First immigration era – irish immigrant wave

Second immigration era – Asian immigrants

Bracero program started because of the world wars and labor shortage. A bracero is someone that works with their hands

LPR – Lawful permanent resident

Hidden curriculum of schools – learning something that’s not intended in class

Human capital theory – stacks of habit, such as knowledge