Understanding Educational Inequities

Disparities in the academic accomplishments of different kinds of students.

The practice of placing students in different classrooms according to their perceived ability.

A form of bias in which adult characteristics are attributed to children.

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<p>Widespread and enduring practices that persistently disadvantage some kinds of people while advantaging others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term that refers to a society's production of unjust outcomes from some racial or ethnic groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sorting of different types of people into separate neighborhoods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Residential segregation so extreme that many people's daily lives involve little or no contact with people of other races.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prejudice against and discrimination toward people with dark skin compared to those with light skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How do low-income students navigate elite colleges and universities?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A phenomenon in which people are positively or negatively served across multiple institutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advantage or disadvantage that builds over the life course.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advantage and disadvantage that is passed from parents to children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Institutional discrimination that injures the body and mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An extremely high rate of imprisonment in cross-cultural and historical perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An extremely high rate of deportation in cross-cultural and historical perspective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How do immigrant parents engage with social service institutions?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The form of masculinity that constitutes the most widely admired and rewarded kind of person in any given culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Men who are seen as lesser based on the androcentric logic that masculine is better than feminine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Men are perceived to be sufficiently masculine but are considered lesser by virtue of another social identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Men have more power than women in the college party scene, and this has implications for college experiences and life outcomes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research method in which participants are asked to self-report their activities at regular intervals over at least twenty-four hours.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that an employee should devote themselves to their jobs wholly and without the distraction of family responsibilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An arrangement in which both partners do an equal share of paid and unpaid work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An arrangement in which one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework, and the other does the inverse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that children require concentrated maternal investment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A concentration of women, trans women, and gay, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming men at the bottom of the income scale and a concentration of gender-conforming, heterosexual, cisgender men at the top.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An invisible ride to the top offered to men in female-dominated occupations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A positive correlation between the number of men in an occupation relative to women and the wages paid to employees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work that involves face-to-face caretaking of the physical, emotional, and educational needs of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A phenomenon in which men start abandoning an activity when women start adopting it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model of marriage that involves a wage-earning spouse supporting a stay-at-home spouse and children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An income, paid to a man, that is large enough to support a non-working wife and children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that the home is a feminine space best tended by women and work is a masculine space best suited to men.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promoting heterosexuality as the only or preferred sexual identity, making other sexual desires invisible or casting them as inferior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promoting childbearing and stigmatizing choosing to go child-free.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship model based on love and companionship between equals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>American mothers face both normative and material sources of work-family conflict.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relatively small group of interconnected people who occupy top positions in important social institutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that US politics is characterized by competing groups that work together to achieve their goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that a small group of networked individuals controls the most powerful positions in our social institutions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of people we know and the resources they can offer us.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process by which advantaged groups preserve opportunities for themselves while restricting them for others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbolic resources that communicate one's social status.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The feeling that our particular mix of cultural capital matches our social context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research method that involves careful observation of naturally occurring social interaction, often as a participant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Descriptive accounts of what occurred in the field, alongside tentative sociological observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A recognition of a shared grievance that can be addressed through collective action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural fit plays an important role in how interviewers evaluate job candidates.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coordinated activities of members of groups with shared goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Persistent, organized collective action meant to promote or oppose social change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The power of noncooperation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shared activities widely recognized as expressions of dissatisfaction with social conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of coming to see a personal struggle as an issue of public concern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The challenge of getting large groups of people to act in coordinated ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social justice movements succeed through grassroots organization, internal community resources, and strategic disruption.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A combination of strong leadership, human and material resources, social networks, and physical infrastructure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Webs of ties that link people with similar political goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A succinct claim as to the nature of a social fact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Persistent, organized collective action meant to resist social movements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frames meant to challenge an existing social movement's frame.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Battles over whether a social fact is a social problem and what kind of problem it is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The strengths and weaknesses in the existing political system that shape the options available to social movement actors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sudden and dramatic occurrence that motivates nonactivists to become politically active.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of money in enabling or limiting a movement's operations and influence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The alignment of the interests of activists and elites.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Students and lawyers worked together to redefine Title IX to include sexual harassment as sex discrimination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The social processes that are expanding and intensifying connections across nation-states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizations that operate in more than one country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A world society consisting of only sovereign, self-contained territories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A global capital market that connects distant localities into a single system of economic exchange.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A network of people who share your opinions and circulate the same arguments and opinions, which can spread misinformation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of how individuals are connected to other individuals and the consequences of those connections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for people to associate with others who share similar beliefs and values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The shape of relationships among policy actors has distorted the message of consensus science.</p> Signup and view all the answers