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27 Cards in this Set
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Government
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Formal organization that has the authority to make and enforce laws. Can maintain order, provide social services, regulate the economy, and establish educational systems.
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Economy
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Social institution that determines how society produces, distributes, and consumes goods and services.
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Global Economy
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The growth and spread of investment, trade, production, communication, and new technology around the world
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Education
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Social institution that transmits attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, values, norms and skills to it's members through formal, systematic training
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Religion
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Social institution involves shared beliefs, values and practices based on supernatural
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Social change
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Transformation of culture, social institutions, slow or fast moving, generates controversy
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Social movement
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A large and organized activity to promote or resist a particular social change.
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Collective behavior
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Spontaneous and unstructured behavior of a large number of people.
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Difference between democracy and authoritarianism
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Democracy people have the power.
Authoritarianism people have no power. |
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Factors that impact likelihood to vote
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-Age
-Marital Status -Social Class -Race & Ethnicity -Religion |
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Percent of women that occupy decision making positions in government around the world
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18%
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4 reasons that work matters
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-Money
-Better health -Sense of accomplishment -Major source of personal identity -Social networking -Stability |
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Goal of a true socialist economic system and justice
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Government control of the economy
-Collective ownership of property -Cooperation -No profit motive -Collective goals rather than individual |
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What type of institution education is considered
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Social
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3 Things we discussed that education does for society
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-Socialization
-Transmits knowledge and culture -benefits taxpayers (educated people pay taxes) -Social networking -Child care |
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How our educational system benefits some people more than others
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-Class - Wealthy parents have the greatest economic and cultural capital
-Standardized testing |
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At least 2 ways religion helps society function
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-Belonging and Identity
-Meaning, purpose, comfort -Social service -Social control |
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How religion can be used to subordinate women
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-Male specific languages
-Scriptures and prayers - men as dominant -Unequal interpretations -Exclusion of women from leadership |
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2 reasons we use sociology to study health and medicine
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-technology helps us live healthier and longer
-better medicine -harder to get healthcare -Haves and have nots of health care |
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How society shapes our health
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-Pollution hazard
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Health care in US for native americans
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On government plan but we spend far less on native americans than average american
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Health coverage according to SICKO
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-Health care is horrible in US
-Even people with good healthcare get denied -Workers get bonus's for denials |
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Major social movements
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-Civil rights
-Liberia end violience -Poland tvs |
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How social movements can make change on an individual and institutional level
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-Individual (alternative) - better individual pay
-Industrial- strikes for better pay, against pollution |
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Reason social movements decline
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They either succeed or fail
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Social change through a global perspective
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Going green
Modernization theory links global poverty to the power of tradition. |
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What causes social change
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-Culture (Invention, discovery and diffusion)
-Social conflict -Ideas -Demographic Factors |
