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| Social class | consists of a category of people who share similar opportunities, similar economic and vocational positions, similar lifestyles, and similar attitudes and behaviors |
| Upper class | about 1-3% of the population and are wealthy, educated, and have occupations related to politics, corporate ownership, or honorific positions in government and the arts |
| upper middle class | 10-15% of the population and are affluent, successful business and professional people, with a college education |
| lower middle class | 25-30% of the population and have a high school education or some college and work in clerical and sales positions, are small-business semiprofessionals, or farmers |
| working class | 25-30% of the population and have adequate financial resources but little money available for luxuries, have a grade school or high school education, and work in skilled and semiskilled manual labor, factories, and other blue-collar work |
| lower class | 15-20% of the population and are at the bottom of the economic ladder, have little education or occupational skills and are often unemployed or underemployed in unskilled labor and service work |
| status disparities | result from the unequal distribution of money, power, and prestige among these social classes |
| emotional responses | feelings such as anger, pride, shame, embarrassment |
| tattoo | permanent design made on skin by the process of pricking and ingraining indelible pigment |
| mainstream culture | the artifacts and understandings shared by the majority of members of a society |
| fashion conscious | those who were aware of current fashion |
| body piercing | an insertion of jewelry into openings made in the body |
| risky behaviors | socially approved adventurous or thrill-seeking acts |
| reckless behaviors | non-socially approved acts where precautions could easily be taken, but are not, to avoid potentially negative consequences |
| gender role socialization | process through which members of society learn how males and females ought to look |
| binary gender system | system divided into two distinct groups–male and female |
| gender norm violations | doing the unexpected or not doing the expected for a given gender |
| residual deviance | violations of those unwritten, unarticulated but taken for granted rules that govern the mass of society in everyday life |
| gender norms | rules or standards of behavior held for one sex or the other and shared by most members of society |
| cross dressing | those occasions when a male puts on feminine dress or a female adopts masculine dress for whatever purpose or to whatever effect |
| transexual | has a complete psychological identification with one sex, but the reproductive organs of the other |
| transvestite | a male who dressed in feminine attire and emulates the female form, but never forgets he is a male |
| exhibitionism | deliberately behaving or dressing in a way that attracts attention |
| drag queen | a homosexual male who cross-dresses in the spirit of satire |
| masculine | Men who depict themselves as having traits congruent with male gender-role expectations |
| feminine | women who depict themselves as having traits congruent with female gender-role expectations |
| androgynous | Individuals who have incorporated masculinity and femininity equally in their personality and behaviors |
| youth subculture | a subdivision within a society with a distinctive lifestyle, values, norms, and beliefs that attract young people as members |
| commodification | process by which a product is developed for buying and selling |
| punk look | is characterized by clothing that has been destroyed and put back together, is inside out, unfinished, or deteriorating |
| oxymoron | phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together |
| goth style | includes black hair and clothes, horror-style makeup (e.g., white facial foundation, black eyeliner, and dark lipstick for both women and men), and symbols of death |
| goth-loli style | involves an abundance of decorativeness, incorporating lots of frills and layers |
| skateboarders | individuals who demonstrate an interest in, and technical knowledge of, skateboarding |
| emphasized femininity | kind of traditional femininity based on subordination to men and boys |
| poser | wears the right clothes, such as wide sneakers with fat laces, brand-name pants and hoodies, and, of course, carries a skateboard. But posers do not really skate |
