Soc110 Final Terms

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Social Capital

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features of social organizations such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit

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Civic Society

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the totality of social affiliations and institutions, which are distinct from from family ,state, and economy

ex: religion, union, charities

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Private Troubles vs. Public Issues

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MICRO vs MACRO

private troubles immediately around you vs larger social phenomenon

-public issues filtering down to cause private troubles, private troubles are reflective of these public issues

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STRANGER:

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-nearness and remoteness, close but distant

-tend to objectify anf typify strangers

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urban annonymity

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the modern urban dialectic between freedom and alientation. You have freedom because you are not held accountable due to obligations to each other

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Alienation

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modern sense of disconnect and being cut off from other people. Feeling alone in the crowd

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Soft Surveillance

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"voluntary" and universal or widespread

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moral panic

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exaggerated, widespread social fear that occurs when a condition, episode, person or group emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests.

Moral panic thrives on:
-concern
-hostility
-disproportionality
-consensus

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Stigma

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any attribute that sets people apart and discredits or disqualifies them from full social acceptance

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Time

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measurable mathematical time as a purely physical phenomenon

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Duration

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lived experience of the passage of time (what you are feeling now, both immediately, and with respect to the past and future)

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Foodways

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the traditional customs or habits of a group of people concerning food and eating

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ingestion vs consumption

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Ingestion: taking something in and making it a part of a greater whole

Consumption: mindless eating

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CATEGORIZI"NG (food system values)

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Categorizing: classifying specific foods and circumstances according to the food system values. (“tasty and cheap”)

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PRIORITIZING (foodsystemvalues)

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choosing among conflicting values. This is not always a rational process (“tasty and bad for me, but eating it will make me feel better.”)

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BALANCING (foodsysystemvalues)

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reconciling priorities to strive for harmony among conflicting values. (“steak tonight, tofu tomorrow.”)

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McDonaldization

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the search for maximum efficiency (means to an end, ability to accomplish goal) in a growing range of social settings

Elements:
-efficiency
-calculability: needs to be measured in a uniform way
-predictability: both the process for making the item and the item itself should be the same.
-control: training

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Social Death

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somebody who is low on the social viability scale is “already dead”, doctors don’t put as much effort in to save

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Social Viability

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determination of whether or not a person is capable of living/surviving successfully as a functioning member of society.

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EVENT TIME

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social events are scheduled and unfold by consensus. actual time is incidental. "polychronic" model

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CLOCK TIME

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the clock is used to schedule the beginning and the ending of activities. "monochronic" model

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Monochronic

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clock driven, focus on one activity at a time from start to finish in linear sequence. Seen in achievement oriented, industrial societies

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Polychronic

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Event time driven, focus on multiple activities at a time and often move between projects, with a strong involvement with people. Seen in less industrialized societies.

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Media effects theory

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people grasp stories in the media and blow them out of proportion

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Meticulous rituals of power:

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repetititve process that solidifies that there is a right and wrong and those who are in authority determine what is right and wrong

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Credit Cards:

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-symbol
-become iconic
-allow you to spend upon your means
-both sustain and hurt our economy, idea that you can do anything you want

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simpatico hypothesis

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those who are in a slower paced lifestyle and lower economic productivity are considered more helpful. This is not a moral issue

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Confidant

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an individual you can confide in. there has been a recent decline in average number of confidants related to the decline in social capital

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weak ties vs strong ties

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Accquanitences vs close friends and family. People today have more weak ties than strong ties, more dependence on your spouse/family

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prosocial behavior

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behavior that benefits the other person and not you. It is determined by self efficacy

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Resucitation Theory

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theres a protocol to both determining if someone is dead and how to save them. This process highlights the inequality because some people get more effort than others based on moral stratification.

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moral stratification

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when you have to decide how much effort to put into saving someone, go off of social viability (hierarchy)

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Ways of reducing stigmatization of working with the dead

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-symbolic redefinition: using certain terms to change the meaning “passed on” vs “died”
-role distance: distancing youself from the role, can use humor or emotional detachment
-professionalism: increasing prestige
-shroud of service: overcoming the stigma of profiting from death

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Culinary Space vs Culinary Place

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place: physical

space: your capacity to draw imaginatively apon areas you are not (cooking food from a different region of the world)