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Symbolic Interacitonalism |
Religion: meangings of religion for it's followers Aging: it is a social contrust, four factors (biological, biographical, gender, cultural) Meicine: Illnesses are always viewed through the framework of culture. Mental/phsycial health Deviance: we learn deviance from each other but we must maintain self control
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Conflict Theory |
Religion: reinforces a society's strarification system through it's relationship to social inequalities Aging: Social secuirty legistlation is an example of one generation making demands of another Medicine: Scarce resources with a growing population of people fighting for it Deviance: Law is opression used by the powerful to maintain their position of privilage |
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How is deviance relative and contextual? |
Different people believe different things are deviant and the act of what IS deviant has changed over time. My blue hair is deviant, but I'll no longer be burned at the stake for being a witch because of it. |
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Sturcutral Functionalism |
Religion: RELIGION IS STRUCTURE Aging: i.e. dying - ensurence of the passing of positions from one generation to the next Medicine: People must accept the sick role and assume responsibility for it Deviance : it affirms norms and promotes social unity/change
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What is Deviance? |
The violation of norms / rules / expectations |
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Types of Crimes |
Blue collar crimes are crimes of opportunity and happen at the street level. White collar crimes are more often corporate crimes and tend to involve more privilaged people. |
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What are the differences in severity of punishments for white vs. blue collar crimes? |
White collar? Eh, who cares. Blue collar? PRISION. Unless the media gets involved. Then it's prision for everybody |
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What type of sanctions exist against Deviance? |
Positive - smiles, good grades, job promotions Negative - being fired, bad looks, gossip, jail |
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How do the three level of social scientists look at deviance? |
Sociobiologists look at genes and how everything came to be what it is Socioligists look at the culture aspect of WHY things are what they are Psychologists look at disorders in the psyche that cause it |
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Labeling Theory (deviance) |
Labeling Theory - The reputations we may gain from commiting deviant acts prevent us from doing so |
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Strain theory (deviance) |
Strain Theory - Society creates deviance through unreasonable expectations and goals Four paths: Innovators, Ritualism, Retreatists, Rebellion |
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Control Theory (deviance) |
Control Theory - SELF CONTROL. Why don't you listen to your intrusive thoughts? Seriously why not?
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Dofferential Association Theory (deviance) |
Differential Association Theory - We learn deviance from those around us and the society they place us in |
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Stigma |
Blemishes that make us not normal and force us to re confrom to what is considered approrpiate |
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How do we Neutralize Deviance? |
Denial of responsibility Denail of injury Denial of a victim Denial of condemeners Appealing to higher loyalites |
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Formal versus Informal Sanctions |
Formal - JAIL PUNISH BIG PUNISH BAD VERY VERY BAD Informal - wow that guys such a jerk, I'm not gonna hang out with him anymore |
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Know the differences between church, eccelsia, cults, and sects. |
Church: moral community with sedative worship services focused on praise Eccelsia: a religous group so integrated into dominatnt culture Cults: new religion that faces hostility Sect: Jews to Catholics to Christians to Lutherns to Protestants |
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Civil versus State Religion |
Civil: religion that is an established featured of a country's culture and history State: government sponsered |
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Understand the terms profane, religious symbols, and sacred. |
Profane: secular rather than religious sacred devotion thingy Religious symbols: symbolic interactionalism - 666, yinyang, swaistika, cross Sacred: Durkheim's term for things set apart or forbidden that inspire (awe, reverence, fear, respect) |
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Good Religion, Bad Rleigion |
Good: promotes social change, discourage unhealthy things, provide a sense of community, provide comfort Bad: encourage persecution and war against "others", bad treatment of devotees (excommunication, banishment), negative images of God (not loving, war, old testament |
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What does Religion do that Science cannot? |
Provide Comfort |
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What is Modernization and Secularization? |
The increasing industrial aspect of a society that is becoming less and less dependent on religion |
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Corporization of the medical industry? |
Martin Skrelli |
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PUrpose of aging? |
People age and move out of society after accomplishing things to make it better for the new babies their making room for new |
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Disengagment Thoery (aging) |
Aging will not ever be stopped. We cannot stop people from getting old and dying. Not yet anyway. |
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Activity Theory (aging) |
There is a direct correlation between doing activites that make you feel good and your life satisfaction. Go figure huh? |
Gardening Theory |
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Continuity Theory (aging) |
You will do the same things as an adult that you did as a child and the same things as an old person that you did as an adult. Nothing ever changes. No one ever changes. Everything stays the same. |
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How do people view aging historically and globally? |
Old people used to be "wise" and still are in some eastern place. Now their "senile" and "irritating" |
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How is aging different today than 200 years ago? |
Hospice, better tech, better hygine, widening generation gaps, widening of all the gaps, better medicine |
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Are we healthier today than we were 200 years ago? |
People use to die from diahrea. |
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How can religion be a source of contention between groups? |
Conflict theory - my god is better than your god so we're gonna kill you. GO SPECIAL PEOPLE. |
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Health care in different countries |
Social stratification. Global Stratificaiton. Limited resources. Scrambling. |
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How has medicine and technology enhanced our lives? On the other side food quality/components/abundancy? How does the advent of medical technology play into the inequalities seen in society? |
A growing national medical bill. Also people live longer and babies don't die so often. But WOW is that expensive as all hell. If you can't afford it... you can go to hell. |
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What is the overabundance of the elderly in America called? |
The greying of America |
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Shaman |
A religious healer who attempts to fix the physical disease in the body by removing the demon thought to be causing it |
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How is health relative? |
My health or how unhealthy I am is based on the choices I personally made regardless of my genes, environment or country - despite that all of those play a factor in my personal |
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Four Components of Health |
Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual |
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What is the black market? |
A dark place where the desperate sell organs and the rich cheat the system yet again to further GREY THE ENTIRE WORLD |
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Gatekeeper |
Social inequality and placement. Keep certain people out and bring in other certain people. More special people |
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