Sociology 1010 Final: Exam 2

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First Postmodern Philosopher

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Frederich Nietzsche

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Modernization

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Process of social change that has at its core technologically-induced economic growth

(internet, facebook, telephone)

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Structural Pluralism

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"Splitting up" society into 2 spheres:
1. Public: megastructures-massive institutions, law, state, corporation, health care, education
2. Private: sphere of the intimate

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Postmodernism exists primarily in the realm of...

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Ideation (ideas)

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Harper and Lietch

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Social Change in America
-gradual change of culture (gays & lesbians)

-Social change in institutions
*religion from public to private
*desegregation of schools

Start out with a single seismic event (Gay rights, stone wall riots)
**military: don't ask, don't tell

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Three Distinct Sociological Concepts of Modernity

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1. Rationality: decisions we have to make daily, desire for efficiency.
-Bureaucracy: rational means for social organization (organizations are defined by hierarchy)

2. Cultural Pluralism: people, objects, ideas coming into contact with eachother
-facilitated by increasing tolerance

3. Structural Pluralism: the world becoming split into 2 spheres: Public & Private(church & state)

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Crisis of Identity

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More likely to impact the upper middle class than the working class

-Middle class people question who they are and their decision making. Working class doesn't have a choice and the options to choose from

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Values

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morals attached to lifestyles that we choose

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Ideas

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-Dependent upon structures/institutions
-how governments lose legitimacy
-act back on institutions and define life

*ideas & institutions are constantly working back and forth with each other

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Dominant idea prior/in era of Deinstitutionalization

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sincerity-->authenticity

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Sincerity-->Authenticity

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Sincerity: within social roles
Authenticity: independent of social roles

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Honor-->Dignity

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Honor: military, royal family
Dignity: inherent worth in every human regardless of where or who you are

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Calling-->Career

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Calling: called to do something
Career: we are in control

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Character-->Personality

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Character: should judge people on traits that are judge to be desirable
Personality: takes away the moral judgement

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Virtue-->Values

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Virtue: fixed moral truths, less faith in these
Values: how you take on life, relativism, everyone has different values

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Deinstitutionalization:

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Expansion of foreground under conditions of late modernity whereby we take less and less for granted

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Subjectivization:

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the process of turning inward to analyze, define, and make sense of one's place in the world.

If you cannot, you are thrown into Anomie.

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Churling: 4 Processes of Deinstitutionalization

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How people act in marriage has weakened.
-Marriage has deinstitutionalized

1. Changing division of labor in home
2. Increase in non-marital childbirth
3. Co-Habitation without marriage
4. Rise and legalization of same-sex marriage

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Cultural Changes, Marriage: Deinstitutionalization

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1. Shift of institutional model-->companionship model
-from vehicle for kids-->to about 2 people's love
-Companiate Model: can be gauged by how much men like to play the care-giver role.

2. Individualized Model: happiness in marriage should come from your own fulfillment & satisfaction.
-most people would like to get married in their lives.

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Churling: Marriage Offers an Enforceable Trust

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-People want to get investments from their partners and in their relationships
-ummarried mothers still highly value marriage
-marriage is a way of social bragging
-it is a way of telling people that someone cares about you.

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Tom Wolf "Hook-Up" Culture:

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-Illustration of the constant change of our identities
-you can "un-hook" easily, when you change your mind
-you can see a double standard
**girls cant hook up with a lot of people-->they are sluts
**men are players when they hook up with a lot of people
**hook up culture disadvantages women
**incentives for men, hook up with people instead of dating

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Courtly Love

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A relationship marked by ceaseless yearning but no sexual activity

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Marriages in the pre-modern era were usually defined by:

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-Consideration of economic factors
-Endogamy: relations tended to be a lot like us because there wasn't much cultural pluralism in pre-modern times

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Rationality

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Cultures tend to be homogeneous
-The ways of life, the ways of belief, every aspect of life tends to be done in the same way with very little variation

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Cultural Pluralism

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The variety of the worlds cultures come together