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Wright Mill's/ Troubles |
Personal challenges |
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Wright Mills/ Issues |
Larger Social Challenges. |
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When is a problem a social problem |
-influential group defines a social condition as threating it's values -Affects a large # of people - can be remedied by a collective action |
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Types of Social Norms |
-Folkways -Laws -Mores -situational |
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Social Norms - Folkways |
Customs and manners of society |
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Social Norms- Laws |
Formal norms backed by authority |
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Social Norms-Mores |
Norms with a moral basis |
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Social Norms- Situational |
Norms that change according to given situation |
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Elements of Culture - Norms |
Socially defined rules of behavior |
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Elements of Culture-Sanctions |
Consequences of conforming to or violating norms |
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Elements of Culture-Symbols |
Languages, gestures and objects whose meaning is commonly understood by the members of society |
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Social institutions |
An established and enduring pattren of social relationships. |
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What are the 5 traditional institutions. |
-Family -Religion -Politics -Economics -Education |
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Theoretical Approaches - Macro-sociological |
Focuse on large group, social institutions as a whole. |
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Theoretical Approaches -Micro-sociological |
Focuse on intamate level of everyday interactions between people |
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Structural Functianlist Perspective - Social pathology |
Social problems result from "sickness" in society. |
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Structural Functianlist Perspective -Social Disorganization |
Rapid social change disrupts social norms. |
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Conflict Perspective - Marxist |
Social conflict resulting from inequality |
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Conflict Perspective-Non- Marxist |
Social conflicts resultiong from competing values/interest |
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Symbolic Interactions |
Individuals interacting in small groups conditions MUST be defined or recognized as social problems for them to be social problems |
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Labeling theory |
Groups/conditions are viewed as problematic if they are labeled that way |
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Blumers Stages of Social Problems |
1) Social recognition 2) Social legilitmation 3) Mobalization |
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Social stratification |
Socio-economic layering of societys members acording to wealth , power and prestige |
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GIN PPP |
The gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity |
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Poverty line |
The official measure of thoes whose incomes are less than 3 times what it takes to provide "adequte" food budget . |
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Near poverty line |
Up to 25% above the poverty line |
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Absolout poverty |
The level of proverty where individuals and families cannot sustain food, shelter, and safety needs |
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Life chances |
Individuals access to basic opportunities and resorces in the market place |
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Open class system |
An economic system that has upward mobility is achivment based and allows social relations between the levels |
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Close caste system |
An economic system that is ascribed-based, allows no mobility between levels and does not allow social relations between the levels |
1980 India has cultural disruption when the U.S took s workers from there and the workers moves up in ranks |
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Social mobility |
The movement between economic strata in a society's system |
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Upward mobility |
Moving from lower to higher class |
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Downward mobility |
Moving from higher to lower class |
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Horizontal mobility |
Remaining in the same class |
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Inter-generational mobility |
Mobility between genreations |
Grandparents->parents->grand children-> great grand children |
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Inter-generational mobility |
Mobility within generations |
Siblings or cousins |
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Structural mobility |
Mobility in social class which is attributed to chances in social structure of a society at the larger social level, not personal level. |
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Socioeconomic statues |
a combination of ones education, occupation and income |
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credential societies |
Societies which use diplomas or degrees to determine who is eligible for a job. |
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Educational Attainment |
number of years of school completed |
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Educational achivement |
how much the student has learned in terms or reading, writing and arithmetic. |
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Comparison of education to Weber |
the weather offers educational levels, social networks, marriage over all have better life chances BUT the paradox is that many life chances are readily available yet many refuse it |
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Family of orientaion |
Family into which individuals are born into |
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Nuclear Family |
family group consisting of a mother and/or father or both children |
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Blended family |
family created by marriage of 2 adults where one of them has 1 or more children from a prior relationship |
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Extended family |
All family members past nuclear or blended family |
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Monogomy |
Having only 1 partner at a time |
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Polygamy |
having multiple spouses at the same time |
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Polygyny |
1 or more wife |
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Polyandry |
1 or more husbands |
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Serial Monogomy |
The process of establishing an intimate marriage or cohabit relationship that eventually dissolves and is followed by another intimate marriage or cohabit relationship that eventually dissolves ect. |
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What are the traditional roles |
-Patriarchal -Matriarchal -Egalitarian |
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Patriarchal |
Where males have more power and authority than famales and rights and inheritances typically pass from father to son |
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Matriarchal |
Where females have more power and authority than males and rights and inheritances typically pass from Mother to Daughter |
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Egalitarian |
power and authority more fairly distributed between husband and wife |
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What are the functions of the family |
-economic support -emotional support -socialization of children -control of sexuality -control of reproduction Ascribed status |
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Homogamy |
the tendency to pair off with someone similar to one |
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Heterogmamy |
tendency to pair off with someone different to one |
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Social exchange theaory |
society is composed of ever present interactions among individual who attempt to maximize rewards with minimizing cost
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Propinquity |
the geographic proximity of 2 potential mates to one another |
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filtering |
the process of eliminating potential mates from the pool of eligible in the market place |
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Sex Ratio |
the number of males per 100 females in a given poulation
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stimulus-value-role theory |
as humans find someone they are attached to, they initiate contact, spend time together compare values and establish compatibility and eventually break off or make commitment towards cohabitation |
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Divorce |
legal dissolution of a marriage |
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predictors of divorce |
-early marriage -existence of humans -cohabit the marry -non-commitment -not getting to know the person -not being pro-active in maintaining a marriage |
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Marital entropy |
if a marriage does not revive preventive maintenance and upgrades it will decay and break down |
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