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income inequality The unequal distribution of an economy’s total income among households or families. Ways to measure income inequality 1. By Income category 2. Distribution by quintiles (fifths) Lorenz curve A curve showing the distribution of income in an economy. The cumulated percentage of families (income receivers) is measured along the horizontal axis and the …

According to Lazarus’s cognitive appraisal approach, the first step in appraising a stressor is called ___ appraisal. primary The ____ consists of 20 black and white pictures of people in ambiguous situations. Thematic Apperception Test The tendency to form a favorable or unfavorable impression of someone at the first meeting that affects later interpretation of …

***The basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was Land ~***Direct social repercussion of Latin America’s export-based economy: ~*Modernization* of the elites ~A *wholesale reconsideration* of production methods. ~*Expansion* of the economic middle sectors ~The *elevation of the United States* as a national role model. ***The first Mexican emperor …

Sociology Systematic study of human action in social context. Microstructures Are patterns of intimate social relations formed during face to face interactions. Families, friendships , circles and work associations. Marcostructures Are patterns of social relations that lie outside and above your circles of intimate acquaintances. Class relations and patriarchy, the traditional system of economic and …

Novel ways to study children Observations: behaviors • Naturalistic (Laurent getting hand into mouth) • Experimental (Laurent’s reaction when hand is removed from mou Novel ways to study children 2. Concentric clinical method: thinking • Flexible and structured interview method • Future questions are based on past answers (conservation of liquid) Constructivist approach • Children …

what lay beyond the emergence of Silk Road commerce, and what kept it going for so many centuries? -cultures produces products and goods other cultures desired -unity and coherence -long distance trade was efficient -linked pastoral and agricultural societies because they depended on each other -demand for more goods what made silk such a highly …

Americanization A belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. Booker T. Washington The Nation’s visible African American leader. Told blacks to move slowly toward racial progress. W.E.B. Du Bois Organize throughly the intelligent honest Negroes throughout the United States. Niagara Movement Group of African American thinkers founded in 1905 …

Sex biological and physical distinction between females and males Culture and Attractiveness -culture sets the standards -attractiveness underlines our choices about reproduction -all of the people pictured here are considered beautiful by members of their own society -ex: our culture tells us if someone is beautiful Primary sex characteristics -organs for reproduction -genitals Secondary sex …

Habituation the decreasing strength of a response after repeated presentation of stimuli laws of association Aristotle; basic principles used to account for learning and memory that descrive the conditions under which one thought becomes associated with another law of contiguity law which proposes that two events will become connected if they are experienced close in …

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